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Category: south america
Monday, June 09, 2008
Sacred Valley
After Suaita we returned to Bogota for a couple of days, and then took off for our travels in Peru.
The flight to Lima was OK but I got a bit sick towards the end. I’d already been a bit wobbly in Bogota, so maybe I had a…
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Childhood Memories
Did I ever mention that it´s pretty neat to have family and friends living all over the world?! The great thing about it is that you get to go to places where otherwise you wouldn´t. Especially in Colombia.
The past weekend we drove 3 hours from Bucaramanga to…
Friday, May 23, 2008
Bucaramanga
We are now guests at tia Marina (aunt of Manuel) who is cooking caldo (soup) for us as we speak. We´ve already been fed frigoles and yesterday, pronto after arriving bright and early, tamales and arepas. All home-made. Needless to say that my man is in heaven. I’m afraid my…
Thursday, May 22, 2008
beach!
Oh how I’ve missed the lovely feeling of super fine sand between my toes while walking along the beach shore. We got a chance to do so on the morning of our last day in Cartagena. And the Carribean Ocean water that washed the sand away was warm! We walked…
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cartagena de Indias
We arrived in Cartagena 2 days ago, at the north-west coast of Colombia. Cartagena is one of the top tourist destinations of this country, and a world heritage site. We’re staying in Hotel Casa del Curato in San Diego (some pictures on their website),…
Friday, May 16, 2008
photos
Hurray, finally we´ve got some photos online! Here you can view them: Colombia photos. Enjoy!
Once our dear friend MJ --the star behind the techie bits if this blog-- has recovered from giving birth to a baby boy (congrats MJ!!) you´ll be able to…
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Onto Bogota
Today is our last day in Medellin… tonight we fly onto Bogota where we will stay with Sofia and Alejo, in the house where Manuel used to live as a kid.
We’ve wrapped up the volunteer work, as you’ve probably read in the other postings this has been…
Sunday, April 06, 2008
City of Eternal Spring
It’s a lovely day outside, birds are singing, a nice breeze comes through the open windows, and everywhere we look it’s green with mountains in the background. We are in Medellin, city of eternal spring and our home for the coming 6 weeks. With rainy season in April. Haha, nice…
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Houston we have a problem!
We have a lift-off but it wasn’t smooth…
After a 1.5 hr delay out of Narita we were finally on our way to adventure. 11.5 hrs later we landed in Houston, to transfer to our flight to Bogota.
For reasons only known to Mr. Bush and…
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Colombia - Would you take the risk?
I found this fun clip about my home country. We are definitely taking the risk.
Make sure you watch it fully (or risk missing the point). Enjoy. 
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Fun Facts About Colombia
- Colombia is the only South American country that has coast on both oceans, Pacific and Atlantic. It has a total landmass of roughly 1,140,000 square kilometers, which is about 27 times the size of the Netherlands.
- Colombia has the world’s greatest diversity of orchid species (3,500)…