08.09.-11.09.11 Salento After another beautiful bus ride through the mountains and the "ZONA CAFETERA" I arrived in the beautiful and tiny town of SALENTO at 3pm in the afternoon. I was lucky as the bus driver dropped me off right in front of my "Hostel Tralala". Wow….and I was glad that I followed the recommendation of a Dutch couple as it was a superb hostel with nice dorms and a lovely backyard and hammocks. As I was very hu...

06.09.-08.09.11 Popayan I left Quito in Ecuador at 12pm and took the night bus to the Ecuadorian border town TULCAN. Unfortunately I couldn't sleep at all as it was freezing cold on the bus. We arrived at 5am in Tulcan and as the border was still closed. The Ecuadorian lady next to me asked the bus driver if we could stay on the bus until 6am and thank God they let us sleep on the bus for another hour. At 6am I shared taxi with two Ecuadorian guys who ...

27.09.-30.09.11 Villa de Leyva I left SAN GIL on Tuesday, 27.09.11 at 8.30 am and unfortunately after 1 hour we got stuck in a road accident. Nobody knew exactly what was going on but we just saw the ambulance and police driving up and down the road. And while we had to stay in the bus I started chatting to the Columbian guy next to me. We talked about my travels, his country, his job and he gave me some recommendations about my next destination VILLA ...