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Caught the morning bus from San Gil to Guane this morning. By the time we got to Guane it was about 11:30am (we left at 10:30am). Again - only gringos on the bus. Crazy roads here, they are so narrow and then there are heaps of bikes so the bus will just pass them and we are sitting there cringing hoping when we come around that corner there is no one coming the other way! We got to Guane which is this tiny little town of a few hundred people. Cobblestone streets and it is pretty …

Got the bus out to this little mountain village to have a nose about. The bus journey here was along a very windin twisty road through beautiful scenery. Barichara is just beautiful. Little village with very laid-back atmosphere and seemed decades behind the cities. Cobbly streets, trees full of blossom, sandstone churches and white-wash houses all surrounded by the mountains. Arrived back in San Gil to a thunderstorm and got soaked running back to the hostel in our shorts!!

The chica from the hostel was kind enough to call the bus company to enquire at what time buses left for Cucuta or Pamplona and it turned out that the earliest was at 2pm. Thus I had the whole morning at my disposal and decided to do a morning trip to Barichara which was actually one of the reasons I had picked San Gil as my stop. Barichara is recommended in the Lonely Planet as a beautifully preserved colonial town and so it is. The houses are well preserved with beautiful white walls. Howe…