Paddington & Goodbye Colombia

So a bit of a contrast for our last two days in Colombia.

Our penultimate day was a lazy day where we chilled around our hostel, called home, and visited one Museum - the Gold Museum.

Gold was used by many cultures before Spain arrived and the museum showed many pre-Colombus artefacts.

On our last day here we were up at 4am to drive 90 minutes into the Eastern Andes looking for new birds but also the Andean Bear. There is only one species of Bear in South America, it is called Spectacled Bear in Peru and further south.

Delighted we found our own “Paddington” and observed it very close (about 20m). It was pouring with rain and it was eating away. Didn’t seemed too bothered by our presence.

We added another 18 bird species to bring our Colombia total to 356 (more than Costa Rica the previous high point). Our trip total is 898.

This morning we were up at 4am again to catch our flight. I add a short highlights video of our wonderful month in Colombia.Read more