Pasto Travel Blogs

I have always been fascinated by volcanoes. I remember being so impressed when, as a kid,  I read that story of a farmer in Mexico who in 1943 saw some steam coming out of his corn field through large cracks that opened in the Earth... He and his family witnessed the birth of a new volcano! Th…

Na een reis van 4 dagen, bus in, bus uit, taxi in, taxi uit, een lekke band in het midden van de Peruaanse woestijn, bussen met pauwen en andere beesten, nachtelijke controles en vooral oncomfortabele zetels en 2 vierkante centimeter plek ben ik terug in mijn favoriete land Colombia. Vanaf de grens…

During my studies I did 2 missions of 3 months each in Colombia as part of a joint project between the University of Geneva and the Colombian Geological Survey. The objective was to study one particular aspect of the formation of the Andes, in the South of the country, between Cali and Pasto. That was a perfect way to discover a new country, practice a new language; a great opportunity to get to know the warm Colombian people, and drive thousands of kilometers in the most remote Andean areas.

Departing from Popayan was not that difficult, after two days of the carnaval, everything was covered in flour dust, my clothes and backpack were a mess, and I was in need of a break. Since I needed to carry my small backpack on the bus, I didn´t have time to wash it so it was still covered in flo…

Dank des Ecuadorianischen Botschafters in Berlin, der Katha ihr Voluntaers-Visum verweigerte musste sie Ecuador verlassen und ich hatte die Ehre inne, ihre Reisebegleiterin spielen zu duerfen :) Also machten wir uns am 1.Dezember 2007 auf in unser Abenteuer! 17 Tage lang reisten wir durch dieses wundervolle Land, 17 Tage voller Busfahrten (aneinander gerechnet 4 1/2 Tage), voller Militaerkontrollen, Achsenbruechen, toller Museen, der Karibik und den wunderschoensten Anden! DANKE DIR KATHA!

After 20 hours more or less continuously on a bus, I stopped in Pasto.  Border crossing into colombia wasn`t too bad (maybe an hour).  Pasto is a good sized town, without much to see.  Its got its main square, few churches, and a lot of clothes shops.  The backpacker friendly ho…

Mine and Vera's trip around South America

After checking in at Koala Inn and despite being pretty damn tired, I decided to stick to my plan of going to see the Laguna de la Cocha, which is about 25km from Pasto.  I got the collectivo from their main office (ask at the hostel), although I had to wait around for the car to fill up with …

Pasto would have to be the most dirtiest and by the far the most polluted of places we have ever been. It was only for a stopover before we travelled overland to Ecuador, but not too sure if it was worthy of that! We stayed at the Koala Inn, a nice 3 storey building in central Pasto. We checked i…

A year spent exploring South East Asia, Australasia and my favouriter continent of South America

The journey to Pasto was long and very tiring. There was a couple I met in San Agustin travelling the same way so we took the journey together.From San Agustin we took a collectivo to the town of Pitalito which only took about 30 minutes and cost 4,000 COP. At Pitalito we hoped to get a straight bu…

next morning on a bus to the border of colombia. was very hassle free apart from some long ques. then on a bus on the other side to pasto. got there and found a hostel (koala backpackers) and had some dinner with some friendly direction from the hostel owner, 'dont walk that way, dont walk tha…

I´m spending around 1 year in South America, I had an amazing time. Enjoy my pictures, I'd do it again.