Departamento de Santander Vacations, Departamento de Santander Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

After a few days of recovering in Cartagena it was off to Bogota on what was supposed to be an 18 hour bus ride which cost 130,000 pesos since it is peak travel season in Colombia. For the first time I actually had a timid taxi driver and made it to the bus station only 10 minutes before the bus was scheduled to leave only to find that I was first person to load luggage onto the bus. Despite this we actually left more or less on time and the bus proceeded along good roads. We made a stop at s...

Went caving this morning with the 2 Brits and Aussie. Great fun, although scary. We had to get a harness on and got down a zip line into the cave. Heaps of bats, which I seriously think are pretty cute. We came to a part where we had to climb down a ladder and then get on a small platform and then jump 6m down into deep water. That part really freaked me out. Really enjoyed it, but alas no photos for today as we couldn´t take our camera in there for obvious reasons. We are just kicking ...

here are some pics of Colombia

Spent a few days in this mountain town. Enjoyed a lovely walk in the park that had massive trees with silvery stuff hanging from the branches (forgot the camera). They have good chicken and chips in San Gil. Had a huge portion of roast chicken with chips and salad plus 2 beers and all for 1 pound fifty!!!