Perhaps one of the more famous hikes near Bogotá, the La Chorrera waterfall is the highest waterfall in Colombia with a 590 metres drop and the sixth highest in South America. Sadly, as you can see from the above photo, we couldn’t see the top due to the cloud but the most does have its …
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Laguna de Guatavita, one of the fabled locations of El Dorado, was once filled with with Gold and Emeralds. The small lake in a crater was considered sacred by the Musica people who left offerings for their Gods. Today its easily accessible from Bogotá by bus or car and for the more active there is […]
I had one condition for going to Mexico and that was that Angela had to climb a mountain with me. We didn’t climb a mountain, instead we climbed the third highest volcano in Mexico, IzataccÃhuatl at 5230 metres. We didn’t make it to the summit but reaching 4500 metres before turning back. With stunning views […]
We had an early flight from Puerto Escondido to Mexico City. Angela and I took a taxi and met her family at the airport. I was tired and a little lost when Lorenzo kindly called out to me and invited me to sit next to him when I had lost everyone at the gate. We […]
When I went to view my apartment in London I met Kassuas who said if I did one thing in Puerto Escondido then I needed to take a boat trip to see the dolphins. He showed me videos of scores of dolphins jumping out of the water. Initially sceptical, as I’ve been on a tonne […]
I remember leaving Bogotá with a sense of confusion. I said goodbye to Angela and I got into my last taxi in South America, well Uber. It was particularly strange because now I had made it and I suppose I was expecting more of a send off. In hindsight I’d never had one during my […]
So this was it. Time to head to San Andrés my last destination. It felt a little bittersweet. I was excited to visit there, my first Caribbean island, but I was also heading home and right now I was done with travelling. I had completed my journey and I kinda knew that when I crossed […]
This is the second to last post I will write for this trip and this one is going to be different. I had two and a half weeks left and after completing my last hike, well last altitude hike but I’m not really sure it really counts as a hike anymore if its doesn’t take […]
I was a little crushed as soon as I found out this upcoming weekend was going to be a holiday. Those are the best weekends topend in cities and to plan ahead where the parties are the best. So far I’d missed everyone and ended up in a hike or in the case of Baños […]
Katha woke me up early by swinging the hammock to see how I reacted. I awoke with a start and found that everyone else was already awake. I hurriedly got ready and having packed most of my things the night before grabbed my bag. I had a few things hanging up and would later realise […]