Guatape

We had a ball here! First of all, dressed in my best Sunday clothes we strolled in this super cute town. All home fronts so colourful, a fitted description of this place as it is called the “city of plinths”. Very happy that we got here on the weekend as the town lights up! On Monday we did a biathlon! Morning kayaking and afternoon a ride with our new bikes! A pity that the path was so up and down that I did most of my ride walking! That night, while we were cooking I said to Hecti: “we do know how to live life”…. and I didn’t exaggerate a bit. I still can’t believe this opportunity, to live life at our fullest; to be healthy and to be active. We enjoyed so much these times.

La Chorrera

Guauu, this was a bit more difficult than expected but absolutely rewarded. The walk took us 6 hours of ups and down to reach the highest waterfall in Colombia…. and we couldn’t be happier!

Bogota

Only one full-day, a big walk to get immerse in this huge city! Walked on the beautiful old town and spend the afternoon in the flea market. Bogota is every bit what a big city should be: noise, busy, high rises, very poor areas, huge traffic.

Zipaquira

I didn’t want to pay such an expensive ticket to get into the salt cathedral and even less to pay their parking. But we ended paying much more - financially and emotionally - as we spent the whole afternoon dealing with the parking police that took our SalSolcito to the depot!

The cute nice little old towns

Guatavita - Nemocon -Villa de Leyva - Raquira - Balneario La Gloria (Las Gachas) - Barichara -Guane - Mompox

I was really surprised… totally! I don’t know what I was expecting but certainly did not expect to find such beautiful laid back out of the history books colonial, big stones pavements towns! Each one of them romantically crafted; most of them pure white walls with orange roofs, some of them only two colors (green and white); the breathtaking churches, the mountains and valleys just around… it did feel like some of the places in Europe in so many ways. You get a sense that time stops still over there and for a moment it looks like nothing has changed much from the last 100 years, including the horse carriers. Villa de Leyva was very hip, lots of craft shops, very upmarket, plenty of museums. Balneario la Gloria had this great walk on the valley that finished in the water holes; pure, cold, crystalline water running down the cascades, through the stones; Mompox with her long promenade along the river and the most distinctive iron fence windows - no two are the same!- Guatavita with the “Mallorca” feel and its great lagoon and Barichara with its great walks (the one we did took as to Guane - we come back in this tiny colourful bus). All this time was magic, unexpected and super enjoyable... now is time to continue travel until we get to the ocean!!!!