So after the 4-day trek in the jungle and a night of mojitos and roof-top partying in Santa Marta, we decided to set up camp in Tayrona National Park. We heard that taking the bus to the entrance was a rather long affair since this also involved hiking through the park with our bags to …

Be prepared for a rather picture-heavy post! Our trek to La Ciudad Perdida (The Lost City) in the Colombian Sierra Nevada was clearly a highlight of the trip – and I couldn’t narrow down the pictures. The archaeological site of La Ciudad Perdida was only discovered in 1975 – a few farmers accidentally stumbled upon …

In-between the Colombian highlands and the Caribbean coast there was quite a distance to cover – a lot of bus fun for two days straight but we tried to make the most of it, breaking the journey in half in San Gil, Colombia’s adventure capital. While we didn’t have the time to stay over to …

After the first few days of adapting to the altitude and holiday mode with a lot of good food and beers we felt that a little exercise was in order. Luckily, the area around Villa de Leyva has a few nice one-day treks on offer. We settled on a trek through the Santuario de Iguaque, …

On a sunny Saturday afternoon we arrived in Villa de Leyva, a beautifully preserved colonial village in the Colombian Andes, about a 3-hour drive from busy Bogota. With its proximity to Bogota it is also a popular weekend retreat for Colombians escaping the city so the little alleyways were busy with people, a marriage was …

Bogota – whoever I told about my upcoming Colombian adventure would start on some words about Bogota, Medellin and the drug conflict. While Colombia is still producing a considerable amount of cocaine, there is a lot more to this country than drugs and guerrilla groups. I’ll share more on the recent progress concerning the drug …