OUR FLIGHT TO BOGOTA WAS UNEVENTFUL AND OUR LAYOVER IN HOUSTON WAS SHORT. WE DID MEET SOME FUN PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY AND EXCHANGED CARDS. OUR BOGOTA HOTEL WAS SMALL AND FRIENDLY AND CENTRALLY LOCATED. BUT OUT TAXI DRIVER HAD A HARD TIME FINDING IT BECAUSE OF CONSTRUCTION. CONSTRUCTION EVERYWHERE! HE FINALLY REVERSED DOW A ONE WAY IN ORDER TO GET US CLOSE TO OUR HOTEL!
THE ALLTITUDE BOTHER ME ALOT AND AYLA ALSO FELT POORLY FROM IT. WE TOOK GINKO THAT WAS SUPOSED TO HELP BUT IT DIDNT. SO WE SPENT PART OF A DAU WALKING AROUND THE OLD CITY AND A FEW HOURS IN A TINY CASINO (TOO BAD THEY DIDNT PUMP OXYGEN IN THERE AS THEY DO IN VEGAS!).
I DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD BUS TO THE COAST. OOPS. IT WAS AN AWFUL FIRST DAY. WE CAME DOWN IN ALTTITUDE FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR THEN WE WENT UP HIGHER BEFORE WE CAME BACK DOWN, I WAS SO SICK AND THE ROADS ARE SO BAD AND THE DRIVER'S SO FAST. WHEN THE PEOPLE FROM THE FRONT LEFT I ASKED FOR THAT SEAT AND FELT MUCH BETTER.
WE ARRIVIED IN 'SAN GIL' IN THE EVENING AND FOUD A HOTEL CLOSE TO WHERE WE WERE DROPPED OFF.
IN THE MORNING WE FOUND A VEG REST. FROM THE LONELY PLANET. THE GUY THERE SPOKE ENGLISH AND TOLD US ABOUT THE MUD SLIDE. WE DECIDED TO GO ANYWHAYS AS THERE WASNT MUCH FOR US IN SAN GIL.
THE TRIP OVER HERE WAS BEAUTIFUL. THERE IS A CANYON THAT RIVALS THE 'GRAND CANYON'. AND WE DROVE TO THE BOTTOM OF IT, AROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND. SO FAST AND FREAKY AND AMAZING! WHAT A GIFT TO SEE.
WHEN WE ARRIVED IN 'BUCARAMAGNA', A LARGE CITY. WE DIDCOVERED THAT ALL ROADS NORTH ARE CLOSED FROM THE MUD SLIDE. SO WE WENT TO THE AIRPORT AND MET A VERY NICE YOUNG MAN WHO WORKED THERE AND HE HELPED US SECURE A FLIGHT AND A HOTEL IN A VILLAGE CALLED 'GIRON', NEARER THE AIRPORT.
OUR HOTEL IS ON THE TOWN SQUARE WITH A BALCONY THAT OVERLOOKS IT AND THE CHURCH.
THERE HAVE BEEN FESTIVITIES NON STOP. ALL NIGHT. SERIOUSLY TILL DAWN. NOW THE SQUARE IS QUIETER. I WEST DOWN FOR COFFEE AND BOUGHT CROUSSANTS AND AVOCADOS FOR BREAKFAST.
OKAY. YOU ARE CAUGHT UP!
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