3 weeks in Colombia and Peru What's the verdict
Our 3 weeks have come to an end. It was a colourful and beautiful trip. These type of trips require planning. On purpose we had left some...
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Woaoo where has the time gone Lima Miraflores last day
And here we go on our last day in Lima. We decided to stay in Miraflores and San Isidoro area. We walked to Huaca Pucllana a pyramid...
Barranco and Al Toke Pez
Time to go to Barranco. Our bus today was straight forward both ways and without the traffic or aimless wanderings of the previous day....
Lima
Where does three weeks go? We are on the last leg of our trip now. 90 minute flight from Puerto Maldonado to Lima and a white-knuckle...
Amazon Rainforest Lake Sandoval and Tambopata river
We had considered spending another night in Cusco and delaying our flight to Puerto Maldonado and the Amazon Rainforest but we are so...
MACHU PICCHU
This is the day that made us come to Peru although Preu has certainly much more to offer. The trip is offered by two train services, Inka...
Cuzco walkabout
We started early from Cartagena taking a flight via Bogota to Cuzco (spoiler no direct flights) with Avianca. The scenery as we...
Last day in Cartagena
And as we normally do we seeked the central market to wonder. The large Bazurto market was off the city limits but a short regular bus...
Playa Blanca, Baru Island.
It's not often that we do a coach trip, but today it seemed the easiest way to get some sand and sea. Collection from the hotel, an hour...
Getsemani
The colourful sister of Cartagena sits just outside the walls of the city. Smaller streets, more preserved colour and, depending where...
Cartagena
The walled city of Cartagena is nice, historic and unashamingly touristic. Still the preserved colonial buildings give it a charm and the...
The way to Cartagena and the walled city.
Bus time again and the bus station is quite out of the city. Terminal de Transportes de Barranquilla is easy to use when you are there....
What a day Barranquilla Carnaval
Today we had plans to go to the parade of the Carnival in Barranquilla. The 2nd largest carnival after Rio. Are you crazy I hear you...
Medellín
The murder capital of the 1990's, not so any more. We have spent two days exploring the city centre(yesterday) and Comuna 13 (today). The...
The bus from Salento to Medellin
I had to interrupt the previous post to show you live (almost) our trip to Medellin. The bus station is getting busy first thing with all...
Salento and a minor hiccup
Off to Bogota airport first thing in the morning. Called an Uber, there in 5 minutes, polite, cheaper than the official airport taxis. 15...
Day 2 Bogota
The streets come to life very early. Lively music blasting from street vendors and passing cars before 6am. Preparations were underway...
Bogota the Capital of color
Few hours of sleep and here we go. The place we stay is at the old centre a cute apartment chosen because is not far from the places we...
Colombia and Peru Three weeks to go
It is just 3 weeks before the D Day. We start finally getting excited and still changing and modifying the plans. This is the most fun...
A bit more of Hanoi and off we go
Time to go today. We decided to do a few things more. A nice visit to the Fine Arts Museum with interesting very different older and...
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