I sit in the plane to San Francisco. I can’t believe my journey in Latin America has ended. I watch the map on the screen in the plane in disbelief. I see all those names of the countries I’ve been to. It took me five month to get from Mexico to Colombia mostly by Busses. Now it takes me only five hours to fly over all of them. Now, when I look at the map, I don’t see a two…
I love Medellin, but I love nature more. So I head out to Guatapé, while David want’s to stay in Medellin. I need to take a bus to get there. I talked about the metro system the last post already. You get direct walkways from the metro to the terminal del norte. It is one of two big bus terminals in Medellin. In my opinion, it is really well designed. You don’t even cross pathways with the highway or any…
After our time in the jungle, we return to Santa Marta. Four days of this quiet lifestyle is enough to see a city differently. The smells, the sounds, the garbage, the homeless people, it is like a slap in the face. Every sensation feels much more extreme. David, Omid and I come back. We’re tired and exhausted and the city is getting on our nerves. Omid and I want to go to the barber. We find a cool one go….