Southward and Ecuador bound we covered a lot of miles, placing us in Ipiales to visit the impressive Las Lajas Sanctuary, built between a bridge and the bottom of a ravine on the site of an 18th century apparition of Virgin Mary. Apparently. Either way, many make the pilgrimage to…
Colombia
pampering in Popyán
/ 17/05/2013Popyán is a whitewashed town with free coffee at reception, chicken feet in the set menu soup, a fabulous vegetarian restaurant which Fletch and I found after passing on the soup and a salon where I had my first hair cut in several months – the fabulous Carlos from Panama…
can’t catch a break in Cali
/ 17/05/2013Cali is a salsa hub in Colombia. If you get there on a good night. Which we didn’t. Time in this previously rather dangerous, drug-economy city, was largely spent acting as a good luck shopping charm for Stacy as we hit the local bus to Jardin Plaza for ok-large-cities-have-some-advantages, the…
in the Zona
/ 17/05/2013No trip to Colombia should miss a visit to the verdant and vibrant green slopes of Zona Cafetera – the coffee zone. Producing half of the country’s coffee, the crops climb to the top of steep mountainsides, using natural drainage and altitude to their advantage. Part of our stay included…
back in Bogotá
/ 11/05/2013It was quite the shock to be back in Bogotá after the serenity of Villa de Leyva. Roaring traffic, noise, mass advertising, public transport, bright lights and pretty colours. Practicality Bec took advantage of a free day to hit the shopping mall outside town, acting all like a real grown…