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Heres a quick blog so that you all know where I am and what I have been upto but no photos this time. Well I have been a very busy boy as you may have noticed from the map. On friday night I caught a bus from Cartagena right in the north of columbia this set of at 5.30pm friday night and arrived into the city of Medellin at 1.30pm on saturday afternoon I had a look around Medellin which is really just a big industrial city and caught a bus at 3.30pm on sunday afternoon which arrived at the Ecuadorian border town of Impiales at 1.00pm.
If you are keeping up I then crossed the border which was a delight no probems at all and even got a very good exchange rate changeing peso to dollors. I then caught another 3 hour bus ride to Otavalo which is a market town in the north of ecuador. I have managed to get a great little room and everything is good so Iwill update again in a couple of days with hopefully more photos of what ive been upto. Just to show you why I travelled through the rest of Columbia so quickly I will give you my reasons,
1. I have seen most of what I wanted to see.
2. I have a time limit and with only 8 weeks left there are a lot of things I still want to see in Ecuador,Peru,Bolivia and of course Brazil.
3. The money situation, while I am doing quite well with my budget there is the matter that compared to the andean countrys ie ecuador,peru and bolivia. Columbia was damn expensive and after being in ecuador 2 days here is a price comparison
4 hour bus journey- Columbia-17dollers Ecuador-3dollers
Hotel room Columbia-15dollers(shared with5 others) Ecuador-10dollers(private room with breakfast)
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