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 flexibility around Cartagena and the jungle in Peru. The only real hiccups were some cancellations from accommodations 2 weeks before Lima but also 1 day before we arrived to Cartagena. Would we have designed this trip differently with what we now know? Not much. The only difference is we would skip Barranquilla, fly from Medellin to Santa

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...

Time to go to Barranco. Our bus today was straight forward both ways and without the traffic or aimless wanderings of the previous day....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Off to Bogota airport first thing in the morning. Called an Uber, there in 5 minutes, polite, cheaper than the official airport taxis. 15...

The streets come to life very early. Lively music blasting from street vendors and passing cars before 6am. Preparations were underway...

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...

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...