Getting off of a 20 hour bus journey and having to navigate yourself through a new city with backpacks on in the heat is definitely an experience, but a fun one for sure. And what better timing to navigate a new city’s metro system. We have learnt that public transport in Colombia works on payment cards that you top up so that was our first stop. We got the Metro which was remarkably clean and smooth running from the bus terminal to Poblado. We then had to walk up hill to the

We only have a week in Colombia but we felt we had to squeeze in two nights at Tayrona National Park. Some may say it was silly because we definitely could have benefited from slightly longer in our three Colombian locations however we bit the bullet and booked a flight from Bogotá to Santa Marta (the nearest city to Tayrona) on Wednesday lunchtime. Landing in Santa Marta was unlike any other airport experience. The airport was tiny for domestic flights only and the runway wa

7th September, Landing in the worlds most dangerous city at 3am I thought we were going to step out of the airport to a wild hustle and bustle but instead we were greeted by a peaceful taxi journey by a man named John down empty streets, John let us into the hostel and we attempted to get some sleep. The next morning it took a while for us to figure out how the city worked, heading for the bus and looking for a cash point. I was in awe at the colour and art that filled the st