One is the Lonliest Number...Colombia Part 2

So, after spending the weekend on Gorgona, I had mixed feelings.  I was looking forward to seeing this beautiful country, but bummed that I had to do it alone.  I mean it is always nice to have someone to share the experience with.  When I talked to Kyle, he mentioned that he had some time off, so I said, "Please come to Colombia and hang out with me."  And he did.  I flew to Bogota the night before he arrived.  He had enough time for a nap and a shower before we were off on another great adventure.

First stop, San Andres.  It is a spectacular island in the Caribbean.  They say it is in the sea of seven colors.  I kept trying to remember this to tell Kyle, but couldn't, calling it the seven blue sea or something like that.  It is surprisingly far away from Colombia, and felt more islandy than Colombian.  Nevertheless, it was great.  We stayed in a great hotel where Kyle fished from our second story balcony.  He raced around the island on the worlds slowest golf cart while I tried to remember the thing about the seven colors and kept saying, "I can't believe how beautiful it is here."  Kyle spent the first two days talking about catching a barracuda, and then did, from the balcony.  Then decided to tell me about how barracudas attack swimmers when we were snorkeling over to pick up a fly he lost in the water below our room...ridiculous.

Happy Reunion...at least for one of us

Standing over the blow hole...which never blew

Barracuda bait in the sink

Sunrise over the boat wreck

Parque Tayrona-  When I first flew from Bogota to Cali I saw a picture of this place and put it on my list.  It is a park and had a place run by the same people who do all of the parks in Colombia.  It was absolutely beautiful.  There were a lot of stairs, but it was great.

Ecohabs-third from left is ours

Not swimming at the super deadly beach

Sunrise

The last place we went in Colombia was the region of Boyaca. We flew back to Bogota for a night before meeting Mr. Nixon, not the US President, who drove us around for the next 4 days.  It was a lot of driving, but we got to see a lot and had a fun time.  We got to see the Great Salt Cathedral-where I discovered the busted camera, lots of beautiful towns and churches, great flowers, and the thermal waters.  Very nice.

In the Salt Cathedral

In front of the first of many beautiful churches

By one of the 5 blue pools

At the lake

In front of Simon Bolivar's hacienda

The end of the vacation

Well, as you can see it was a great trip.  We had a lot of fun.  A big thank you to everyone who helped make it so great.  My next post will be all about life in Lovely Laos.  Lots of Love, M.