Travel
As we were doing this yesterday, that was the question that came up. Our guess is that not many people would do the same things that we do, and yet these country road walks have been among our best experiences in Colombia.
There are no other tourists. In fact, I said yesterday that I figure we're probably the only Canadians to ever visit the little isolated town of Gacheta, Colombia.
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- Colombia, On $39 Usd Per Day
We recently spent just over six weeks (47 days including travel days from Mexico) touring Colombia. I wanted to detail our expenses over that period of time so that others can judge if they can afford to do the same type of trip. Including our airfare...
- Exhausted!
We slept just okay in our little cubicle above the noisy restaurant here in the town of Guasca, Colombia (pop 13,000). As we said yesterday, it's not ideal and it's a little overpriced compared to what we've been paying during the last five...
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We paid our bill at Bidea Hostel in Filandia. 186,000 pesos ($88.35 CAD) for three nights. A little overpriced compared to some of the other hostels we've stayed at in Colombia. Two things that typically have bothered us about these hostels...the...
- We've Had Enough Of City Life...
When we woke up yesterday morning, the sun was shining. We were trying to decide between a walk up the road into the hills behind the hostel, or a walk into downtown to see the cathedral. I checked google maps, and the road up into the hills only goes...
- Colombia - More Negative Than Mexico?
As you may know, we are going to spend 6 weeks touring Colombia this fall. When we announced this, the first thing my mother says is along the lines of "Can't you pick a friendly country?" Well, I think one of the reasons that we want to...
Travel
Would you go for a walk along a random dirt road in the countryside of Colombia?
As we were doing this yesterday, that was the question that came up. Our guess is that not many people would do the same things that we do, and yet these country road walks have been among our best experiences in Colombia.
There are no other tourists. In fact, I said yesterday that I figure we're probably the only Canadians to ever visit the little isolated town of Gacheta, Colombia.
Click here to read more...
- Colombia, On $39 Usd Per Day
We recently spent just over six weeks (47 days including travel days from Mexico) touring Colombia. I wanted to detail our expenses over that period of time so that others can judge if they can afford to do the same type of trip. Including our airfare...
- Exhausted!
We slept just okay in our little cubicle above the noisy restaurant here in the town of Guasca, Colombia (pop 13,000). As we said yesterday, it's not ideal and it's a little overpriced compared to what we've been paying during the last five...
- Travel Day! Filandia To Buga, Colombia.
We paid our bill at Bidea Hostel in Filandia. 186,000 pesos ($88.35 CAD) for three nights. A little overpriced compared to some of the other hostels we've stayed at in Colombia. Two things that typically have bothered us about these hostels...the...
- We've Had Enough Of City Life...
When we woke up yesterday morning, the sun was shining. We were trying to decide between a walk up the road into the hills behind the hostel, or a walk into downtown to see the cathedral. I checked google maps, and the road up into the hills only goes...
- Colombia - More Negative Than Mexico?
As you may know, we are going to spend 6 weeks touring Colombia this fall. When we announced this, the first thing my mother says is along the lines of "Can't you pick a friendly country?" Well, I think one of the reasons that we want to...