Monday 10th August 2015 In the morning, I learnt more about fruits and veggies of Colombia and took a cooking class with Master Chef Elcida. In the afternoon after THE awesome soup for lunch, we left the house to head to Bogota centre. Here all houses have gates and all windows have iron gates too. … More Bogota – Day 1
Monday 10th August 2015 I have been almost 6 weeks now in Colombia and discovered lots of fruits I had never seen in my life, some are probably found in other countries of South America too. In the morning we went grocery shopping and it was a good occasion for me to review all fruits … More Some fruits and veggies found in Colombia
Monday 10th August 2015 In the morning, Diane went to work. She is a psychologist and also teaches at the University, it keeps her really busy! With her mum Elcida, we walked to the grocery store and bought fruits and veggies. Then her mum taught me to cook a Colombian Bogota soup recipe. Put some … More Cooking Class with Master Chef Elcida – THE Colombian Soup
Sunday 9th August 2015 With Val, Fred and Eric we took the mini-bus of 9am in Villa de Leyva off to Bogota which was stopping over in Birgamos or something from which we grabbed another bus to go to Zipaquira to visit the Salt Cathedral. At some point in the first leg we passed the … More Zipaquira Salt Cathedral
Friday 7th August 2015 Spent most of the day preparing the texts for blog articles. I just wanted to write about the amazing El Cocuy before I would start forgetting everything and was oblivious to most of the city life happening around me that day. I still got some glimpse of that city when doing some … More Villa de Leyva – 2 days
Thursday 6th August 2015 At 7am, I took this mini-bus going from El Cocuy to Tunja. In there was Francois, the guy who had got the snow on his tent all night at Laguna Sierra Nevada and the lightning which had fallen 300 meters away of his tent. We spent the bus ride chatting. He … More El Cocuy to Villa de Leyva
Wed 5th August 2015 I woke up at 5am, finished packing the bag, had brekky at 6am with Rosa and Luis, paid for my stay and the awesome horse-riding day and left around 7am.It was a gorgeous day with an amazing blue sky, at least at that hour! Bye-bye Posada Sierra Nevada and the snow … More El Cocuy – Day 8 – Tourist day in Guican
Tuesday 4th August 2015 In the morning, Rosa prepared “el tinto”, the black coffee expresso on the wood fire in the kitchen. This is their house, seen from a bit outside. The dogs playing next to Mandarina, the horse I was about to ride all day. Luis, his brother Maurices, Seraphin and the baby Jose … More El Cocuy – Day 7 – Laguna Grande de Los Verdes
Monday 3rd August 2015 The paradise view outside of La Esperanza in the morning I waited for the lechero coming at 8am going in the direction of Guican which could drop me at a section from which I could walk to the West Part of the El Cocuy National Park, towards Cabana Kanwara. My idea … More El Cocuy – Day 6 – La Esperanza to Posada Sierra Nevada
Sunday 2nd August 2015 In the morning, it kept raining and raining. I was really reluctant to get out of my tent and get wet and hoping it would stop at some point! At least the outside shell kept repelling the rain and letting it roll down without getting to the inner shell. 8am and … More El Cocuy – Day 5 – Laguna to La Esperanza
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