It should be noted that Colombia isn’t exactly the easiest country to travel. It’s not the hardest, but that conveniently timed bus still means ten hours of twisting and rolling around in your seat as the bus driver throws himself down and back up Colombia’s three ranges of Andes. If you’re lucky, you’ll get vallenato blasted at you all night.
My two months away wasn’t all sleeping in Amazon tree houses (some arsehole robbed our Bogota house and took those photos), surfing on the Pacific coast (coming soon), chasing anacondas in Los Llanos or staggering up mountain passes in El Cocuy. There was a few days spent in random cities waiting for bus connections, Christmas with friends on the Caribbean coast, several days in Medellin after the Pacific coast and several more in San Gil before crossing into Venezuela. The stories themselves aren’t too exciting and are much better told by this random little group of photos.
Simón Bolívar, possibly as bad-arse Ataturk
Spinning tops in Bucaramanga
Sunset over Playa Grande, Taganga
Johan in Minca
Medellin Botanic Gardens
Medellin Botanic Gardens
Artist’s self portrait in Medellin’s Modern Art Museum. His other work was almost exclusively made up of naked men wrestling.
Medellin
Paisa hospitality: “Foreigners – my house is yours. Welcome to Medellin”
Biblioteca de España – donated by the Spanish government, built in the barrios above Medellin
Cable car is one of the main forms of transport in the barrios above Medellin – seen from inside the Biblioteca de España
Barrios above Medellin
Barrios above Medellin
Barrios above Medellin
Barrios above Medellin
Barrios above Medellin
Gringos in San Gil
A village outside San Gil. An hour before this was taken we’d been crawling and swimming around the caves a hundred metres underneath town.