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Bogotá The flight from Santa Marta to Bogotá left early in the morning. I checked out of the Dreamer Hostel at 7 AM, and took a taxicab to the airport. The airport was very small. A check-in desk [...]

Cartagena After a very short night of sleep, the taxi waited in front of the hostel at 4 AM. We were leaving for the airport, the partygoers were leaving for their beds. Medellin sure was a very [...]

Pasto We left Quito and Ecuador behind us early in the morning. We had a taxi cab during rush hour to the bus terminal. There we got on a local bus to Tulcán, the last city on the Ecuadorian side [...]

Guayaquil We arrived at the bus terminal in Guayaquil at 7 PM. The 19 hour bus journey was not too bad. The food and entertainment we got were decent. Crossing the border into Ecuador went [...]

Cusco We did plan to leave Cusco the very next day after returning from the Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu. We got up early for breakfast and checked out of the hostel. We got to the Plaza de las [...]

Cusco We left Arequipa late at night and arrived at the bus terminal of Cusco early the next morning. We found the cheapest bus from Arequipa to Cusco, just S/. 30, and the driver we got was a [...]

Puno The bus from Copacabana, Bolivia to Puno, Peru was just a few hours. We passed the border control easily and arrived at our hostel — Cozy Hostel — at the end of the afternoon. We originally [...]

We are already in our last week in Bolivia, time really flies. We have passed the halfway point also. There are just two destinations left that we want to visit in Bolivia: La Paz and the [...]

Samaipata We arrived in Samaipata at 5 AM, after a long ride from Sucre. The bus didn’t have air conditioning or toilets on board, but we could open the windows for some fresh air. We [...]

We spent one night in Uyuni to relax and get some rest after three long days on the Salar de Uyuni tour. The bus terminal in Uyuni was no more than a street corner with a few offices. The bus [...]