EkwadorMorro0°48’49” N 77°39’52” W
28 lipca 2024, Ekwador ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
We cross the border into Colombia at Ipiales. Friendly staff, but we have to sit there for 4 hours due to an electricity outage. It gives us time to find our final South American flag for the Troopy.
KolumbiaPotosí0°48’20” N 77°35’10” W 29 lipca 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Our first tourist attraction across the border into Colombia is the “Sanctuary of our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Las Lajas”. A great title for another amazing church. And, yes, the site of another Czytaj więcej
PodróżnikAmazing how the colonists managed to find the time to build such magnificent structures whilst busily brutalising the locals.
KolumbiaParque Caldas2°26’34” N 76°36’20” W
2 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Our first major city in Colombia is Popayan, the “White City” (named for its many white churches and buildings in the city centre). We really enjoyed it. Nice people and a really pleasant vibe in Czytaj więcej
KolumbiaEl Peñón3°26’47” N 76°32’22” W
3 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
We make our way up the every thin corridor that DFAT deems safe in southern Colombia (worth noting that they have no representation in Colombia) to the city of Cali - Colombia’s third largest city. Czytaj więcej
KolumbiaAlto La Ribera4°38’34” N 75°28’54” W
4 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Valle de Corcora is part of the broader Los Nevados National Park and home to the largest remaining groves of Quindio Wax Palms (which can grow up to 60m high and is the national tree of Colombia). Czytaj więcej
KolumbiaPereira4°48’54” N 75°41’31” W
5 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
If you travel through the northern countries of South America you will be hard pressed to find a city or town that doesn’t have a statue of Simon Bolívar. But none have interpreted his greatness Czytaj więcej
KolumbiaJericó5°47’34” N 75°47’11” W
6 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
The Central Colombian highlands is home to Colombian coffee. Cute little towns set on ridiculously green hills where coffee dominates everything and everywhere.
KolumbiaSan José6°14’54” N 75°33’46” W
8 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Not long ago Medellin was the centre of the world cocaine trade with an alarming death rate as Pablo Escobar controlled much of the city. While it still has its problems, the city has undergone Czytaj więcej
KolumbiaEl Peñón de Guatapé6°13’10” N 75°10’45” W 10 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
A couple of hours drive from Medellin is La Piedra del Penol. It’s not as massive as Ayer’s Rock, but is an amazing geological feature, sitting on its own, with no similar mountains in the Czytaj więcej
KolumbiaCaño La Ahuyama10°58’58” N 74°46’33” W
15 sierpnia 2024, Kolumbia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
After the low, highlands of the Medellin region, we head north. The mountains are replaced by hot, humid, green, wet lowlands. Not a lot of tourist value, but a lot of sugar cane. We eventually hit Czytaj więcej
