Latin American and European Journeys
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From Bucaramanga we took the bus North to Mompos. The journey took most of the day, though once we were out of the mountain valley, the road improved immeasurably. Mompos is situated on the Magdalena …
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Travelling North from Bogotá the temperatures climb as you move to lower altitudes into the fertile and economically productive provinces of Boyacá and Santander. Once you have escaped the notorious Bogotá traffic, the route North …
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After the hiatus of the pandemic, the world is beginning to open up and we decided to gently return to international travel by returning to Colombia, a country we last visited in 2018. We made …
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In these restricted times of closed frontiers and chaotic management of the pandemic in most countries we made the decision to stay in the UK, but in keeping with our principles that the journey is …
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After returning from South America at the end of 2018 we planned to have a year off travelling before embarking on an overland journey down the Silk Road from London through Turkey and Central Asia …
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Peru is your archetypal South American country with an intoxicating mixture of Andean culture, colourful markets, spectacular scenery, elegant colonial cities and probably South America’s best cuisine. Most visitors make pretty much the same tour …
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Cartagena in the run up to Christmas
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Tayrona National Park,
Tropical beaches where the unspoilt jungle meets the Caribbean Sea
Santa Cruz de Mompos is one of Colombia’s gems of a colonial city, has a beautiful consistency of old architecture and lazily sits alongside the fast flowing Magellan River. For much of its life it …
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We took the relatively short journey from Bogotá to Villa de Leyva by bus. The Bogotá traffic meant that it took well over an hour to get from Bogotá’s modern bus terminal to the city …
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