Colombia
Ocamonte

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    • Day 192

      Social distancing

      March 17, 2020 in Colombia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      In the morning, Ishan left our hostel apartment, as he decided to cancel his trip and go home to Australia. So now it's only us and Andrés in the house. Andrés is Colombian and usually works in the hostel. During the closure, he can't work there, but prefers staying as the conditions are way better than in his home.
      After breakfast, we decided to do social distancing in the mountains and went for a bike ride on a remote road to Charalá. The route went passed Fonce River and was really beautiful. We passed a waterfall and spent some time on the central square eating icecream.
      On the way back, we wanted to check out if the Indian Cave is still open. In order to get there, we took a back road which was dirt. But hey - we have time and no luggage, so let's try! Climbing was really hard and I sometimes had to push some metres, even though we lowered the air pressure. But the landscape was awesome and there was absolutely no one else on the road.
      In Paramó where the cave is located we first stopped at the church. Then we went to the entrance of the cave. Unfortunately, noone was around. Looks like everything is closed to the lack of tourists. So we just went back to San Gil, did some grocery shopping and cooked dinner.
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    • Day 144

      Off to Juan Curi waterfall for abseiling

      February 20, 2018 in Colombia ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

      Our last day in San Gil started at the same time as the other days. We were up and had our breakfast by 9 am. We were supposed to reach Jaun Curi some 25 kms South of San Gil ourselves by the local bus where the local representative of our operator would be waiting for us at around 10 am. The local bus stop was just one block away from our hostel so we walked over but unfortunately, the 9:30 am bus in that direction had just left and the next one was at 9:45 am. We got on to that bus and started our journey South.
      This part of the town had many chicken shops where there were butchering the chickens just before preparing them for the meals being served in these chicken farms cum restaurants.
      Just outside of the town, there were many trees with the "Old Man's Beard" or Usnea lichens hanging from them. There were also the flame orange colored flowers of the Red Silk Cotton trees also known as Bombax Ceiba. This direction from San Gil seemed much more wilder than the other directions we had been earlier.
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