América del Sur

Today we don't get up too early. At 8 o'clock our whale watching tour starts.

Humpback whales

Colombia, with a surface of 1.14 million square kilometers, and areas still inaccessible, is an exciting country, with impressive mountains, exuberant nature, paradisiacal beaches, but among all these wonders stands out the quality of its people.

Day 1: Madrid - Bogota

Day 2: Villa de Leyva

Day 3: Villa de Leyva - San Gil

Day 4: Barichara and Guane

The flight leaves without delay and after 10 hours we arrive at Madrid Airport.

The next bus to Burgos doesn't leave for two hours and due to the tiredness it gets long.

It has been a wonderful trip, we are sure we will be back soon.

Good breakfast included at the hostel. The crepe is very good. Not too much egg and sugar. The woman at the hostel is very nice and leaves us her Transmilenio card.

In Bogota there is no metro, but there is a double and even triple bus line that replaces it, although Bogota people complain that it is no longer enough to cover the needs of the city.

We crossed a port at 4,000 metres above sea level, a spectacular road and still arrived some time before, around 5:30 in the morning. We took a taxi and had a hard time finding it, the Bogota terminal is quite big.

Today we leave Salento and on the way to Bogota we stop to visit the town of Filandia.

For breakfast we go to Lucy's, it's very good, you can enjoy the typical calentao (beans with rice) accompanied by eggs, arepa with butter, red wine and a dry fritter with a very soft cheese flavor, very rich.

We leave Salento early and have two and a half hours until we reach Santa Rosa, first a bus from Salento to Pereira (1 hour), from there another one that takes us to Santa Rosa (30 minutes) and then a jeep that takes half an hour to the Hot Springs, since the bus just left and we have to wait two hours for the next one.

The Valley of Cocora awaits us. Located in the lower part of the National Park of Los Nevados, it is nestled between majestic peaks, and a part of our route of 15 kilometers, runs through a canyon with hanging bridges over the river.

After a 6 hour bus ride we arrive in Armenia, it is 4 am, we drink a red wine and wait until 5 am for the first bus to leave for Salento.

Salento Surroundings