by Jonathan Evans | Feb 8, 2010 | Brasil, Colombia, Peru, South America
A quick update from Leticia – got back here last night from a few days in Puerto Narino, which is 70km up the Amazon towards Peru. Tomorrow we’re getting a fast boat from Santa Rosa (an island across the river in Peru) to Iquitos (also in Peru). To buy the...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 28, 2010 | Colombia, South America
So, we turn up at the airport all excited this morning, ready to begin the jungle adventure. Monkeys here we come!! Except that our ticket is for the 30th and today is the 28th. Kinda put a damper on things… But, guess what? The day after tomorrow I’m off...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 26, 2010 | Colombia, South America
So I’ve got you all excited with a new blog design, loads of fascinating and insightful commentary to read and now I’m going to bugger off for a couple of weeks. Your disappointment is tangible. This is not because I don’t love you – you know I...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 23, 2010 | Colombia, South America
Cocaine is a tricky thing. You can have as many high-profile ad campaigns promoting tourism as you want, place all the police you have on every street corner and generally clean your act up for both residents and tourists alike, but at the end of the day, people in...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 21, 2010 | Colombia, South America
So, from Bogota we spent a couple of days in lovely colonial Villa de Leyva, about 4 hours north. On the way I got my first taste of Colombian bus drivers. In the cold light of day it’s one thing to sit here typing away and say that they drive like lunatics....
