How ironic

To every coffee lovers dismay, I have an unfortunate truth to reveal... people in Colombia drink Nescafe. Yep, they grow the best coffee in the world, but they drink powdered fake stuff! Crazy...

Anyways, Monica left a little over a week ago, after we had an extremley random experience in a "mud volcano". Please notice the mud on our teeth as well... I didn´t get it all out of my ears for about a week! It was great to have her visit, and best of all she thought that my Spanish was good! Little did she realize that I pretty much had no idea what was going on!! As usual...

I saw a really cool archeaological site in a village called San Agustin. (See the cute bird statue). There are hundreds of statues like this one, dating back to as early as 3000 BC and most impressively they were all made without the use of metal tools! I had an Indiana Jones style day exploring the sites on horseback!

Then I met up with a couple of other travellers and we did a 3 day trek through Parque Nacional Purace. It was such insanely beautiful scenery, and changing every couple hours too; jungle, forest, river, creek, mountain, cliff, lagoon, tundra, rolling green hills of coffee and potato crops. We were sequestered to a military base upon our return by some bored/power hungry 17-year old soldiers who had braces but also very large guns. But nothing too exciting happened...

So despite spending almost a month in "one of the most dangerous countries in the world" I managed to escape unscathed, and actually would recommend travel there to just about anyone! I will be putting up some more photos soon... send me a line if you didn´t get my photos email (and you want it, that is!)

Chao y buenas noches

Kate