Hitchhike from San Gil to Villa de Leyva!!! We ended up getting picked up by another semi hauling an empty fuel tank. The only problem was is he only had one seat available for passengers in his cab! A ride is a ride though, even if it was uncomfortable, it was entertaining! He took us for a few hours from San Gil to Barbosa, where again we didn't have to wait more than a few minutes to get a ride to Tunja with two guys in a four-door car! From Tunja we jumped i...

Rio Fonce rafting, real cool Antigua caves and TEJO Tuesday! I was kind of undecided whether or not I wanted to do that white-water rafting, because the river was quite brown and looked very unappealing to swim in. But for like $12 I couldn't say no...... Despite the river only being a class two or three rapids and being brown it was a very good time even though I was stuck in the boat with a bunch of Germans.... Haha.... Their coolel..... It usually always co...

Barichara to Guane trek Claire, Todd, who we met at the Hostel and I, all headed out for the day to do a trek the owner of the Hostel had told us about. Just a short bus ride up the mountain a bit was the beautiful town, Barichara. One of the most beautiful Spanish colonial towns in Columbia, where the local specialty was fried ants and a thick corn liquor..... Yum yum..... Not! We did try them and no one really enjoyed them! Well we were in checking out the chu...

Turned out to be a 21 hour overnight hitchhike....lol Well after a great high-quality sleep...... We started driving again about 4:30 in the morning, and the drive from here to San Gil was absolutely amazing through Chicamocha national park! We ended up arriving in San Gil around mid day, and found the hostel, Macondo, with an actual hot Jacuzzi!!! 20 kms from San Gill was supposed to be the very impressive Juan Curi waterfall so we decided to check it out in t...

Hitchhike from Santa Marta to San Gil!!! So our plan was to hitchhike during the day and if that didn't work out we would take a night bus, because we were hoping to see the scenery on the way there! We got off to an early start and got a cab to the outskirts of Santa Marta, where we didn't wait more than 15 minutes for our first ride! Two guys in a small quad cab truck took us for about two hours to as far as they were going. We decided again to walk a little ...