I had to get up early today, well I say early but actually the normal of 5am rise and shine so I could talk to my parents. We are trying to Skype once a week now which is great, much better then emails, I can hear their voices and here how they are just by the tone of their voices. We had a nice chat and then I had to say goodbye as I was off to meet another local Couchsurfer at 8am who would be my guide for the morning. Pedro my guide was introduced to me by Ana...

Today I was up early and wow it was steaming hot even at 5am, I did my best to go back to sleep but the heat was keeping me awake. I was feeling very uneasy in this town and specially in the hostel: the guy who ran the hostel was very fidget always sneaking around trying to watch what I was doing and he kept turning the Internet off which kind of annoyed me as I had paid for the service. There was just me and one other Moroccan guy staying at hostel and he was as...

Waking up at 6am wasn't bad considering I was on a bus racing across the country. We stopped at a small town and it turns out that was supposed to be my stop, but we were super early so I didn't even consider it being the right place. When we got on the bridge I figured we had gone to far and asked driver in broken Spanish, another Colombian came to my rescue and told me he would look after me - turns out we would go all the way to Barranquilla only for him to sh...

After only a few short hours sleep I was up early doing my exercises looking out at a beautiful sunrise. I was hoping to hear from a girl in the city who was driving to Santa Marta today and had offered me a lift but unfortunately by 3pm I had heard nothing. I went for a walk and then Sierra and I sat down for lunch and wrote down each others travel ideas for our upcoming trips. I have only been here three days and I already feel very close to Sierra and I am sur...

Today the plan is to go Paragliding. I have never para-glided before and here in Bucaramanga they offer very reasonable price tandem paragliding flights for about $28. I don't usually splurge but seen as it was my birthday a few days ago and my Grandma had given me some money I thought why not get the blood pumping. At about 10am I walked up the highway and found a little bus where apparently I could find a bus that would take me up the Routique to the launch pad...