Nov 18, 2009 | Random
I woke up early fully intending to make as much of the day ad I had the previous day. Brief plans of rock climbing, hiking, paragliding, and similar activities were floated around during the early morning but it was too hard to convince a large enough crowd to agree...
Nov 17, 2009 | Random
Knowing I couldn’t take another lazy day in the hostel, I made plans with my German buddy Nick to go see Guatape. From what we read on a flyer, it’s a small village about an hour away with some nice lakes, trails and such. Nick and I hopped on the Metro (a...
Nov 16, 2009 | Random
I slept in until the afternoon, attempting to catch up from the poor night bus sleep. Instead I just ended up with a bad crick in my neck, and missing the only good weather of the day. The rest of day was ugly, cold and rainy, and nobody in the hostel was particularly...
Nov 15, 2009 | Random
Medellin is a modern, big city in the mountains of Colombia. After getting in at around 8am, we (there were about 10 of us travelling together from Cartagena) took cabs from the bus station over to The Pit Stop hostel, in a southern part of town known as El Poblado....
Nov 14, 2009 | Random
Having stayed up for the sunrise the night before, I woke up surprisingly early (noon) and well rested. Anna, Robby, Alec and I checked out of the hostel, stored our gear for the day, and went to have breakfast (lunch, as it turned out). We had a good day of hanging...
Nov 13, 2009 | Random
Early in the day, a large group of us decided to visit one of the area’s main attractions: the clay baths of Volcan del Totumo. After a 50 minute bus ride north of the city, we arrived at a what looked like a miniature volcano (or, more accurately, a giant...
