Popayan Travel and Tourism Guide

So with my plans to make it to Pasto foiled I decided to stay in Popayan for the carnaval which was supposed to begin on the 5th and 6th, with the 5th being black day and the 6th being white day. The carnaval has its origins in the days of slavery when slave owners would allow their slavees to dress up as them by painting themselves white and the owners would show their approval in turn by painting themselves black. From that evolved this mess of a carnaval where apparently the main objective...

Back home to colombia... I usualy make this trip every other year. this time i started in Bogota than went to Popayan and from there Cali.

My trip back to NZ via South America

We have been in Popayan for the last 3 days. It is so pretty at night time, and has a lot of good shopping. We have pretty much been chilling out since we have been here. watching movies and lazying around. It's a great place to do have a holiday from the holiday, more so because of the hostel we are staying in called Hostel Trail which is run by a Scottish couple. Super friendly and really clean. In fact I would say it's the cleanest hostel we have stayed in. Really impressed!We are off to S...