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....
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 20, 2010 | Colombia, South America
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Bogota. Very much like Colombia itself, its reputation precedes it. It’s huge (9 million population), hard to travel around, some areas are total no-go areas for the average backpacker, and it’s cold, even in summer...
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 15, 2010 | Colombia, South America
One thing that I have been asked a lot is whether or not Colombia is a safe place to be. For sure it does not have a good reputation for safety, and everyone has heard of FARC, Pablo Escobar and the fate of Ingrid Bettancur. So, it has a violent past, does that mean...
