The salt is over 10 meters thick in the center. In the dry season, the salt planes are a completely flat expanse of dry salt. In the wet season when we were there, it's covered with a thin sheet of water that sits on the surface creating the strangest landscape you'll ever see! [AFG_gallery id='2']   Where is it? [mappress mapid="11"] ...

We had already conquered Huayna Potosi (6088m) five days previously but we were still craving something a little more challenging and Mount Illimani (6490m) was going to be the one: its six peaks loom over La Paz dominating the landscape. Organising the climb was a major undertaking, as we didn't book through an agency. We hired a guide privately and organized all our food, equipment and transport ourselves ...

Our second day in Sierra Nevada del Cocouy and Marco's first experience riding a horse, it was an adventure to say the least. ...

During our six weeks of traveling around Colombia in the build up to Christmas we've noticed that lights and decorations are an important part of the Christmas celebrations. Not only in public areas but also on family houses; we saw whole streets illuminated with the most elaborate forms of fairy lights.  The city of Medellin wins the award for the most amount of lights: the Barrio's on the hillsides of the ...

  Ciudad Perdida is an ancient city built by the Tairona people in 700AD in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta jungle, Colombia.  Only officially found in 1975, it is still relatively undiscovered by mass tourism: just 40 people visit the Ciudad Perdida per day compared to the 500 of Machu Picchu in Peru. For this reason and for its isolated location, only accessible by walking 20km into the jungle for 3 ...

Day 2 of our adventures in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy After staying the night at Cabanas del Pulpito, we were keen to do the trek to Laguna Grande. However we were just debating whether our tired legs could carry us there, the 8 hours of walking the previous day had tired us out.  In the end our host Marline suggested the perfect solution, she offered us a couple of ponies to ride to Laguna Grande. The sma ...

Visiting Sierra Nevada del Cocuy was not part of our original travel plans due to its remote location. It’s a national park situated in the Eastern Cordillera mountain range north east of Bogota .  We took the ten-hour night bus from Tunja to Cocuy town. The bus ride is not something I would want to repeat in the near future: fifty percent of the road is loose gravel and the hairpin bends seemed never endin ...

You can't say you have seen Villa de Leyva and the surrounding area, until you've spent a day at the National Park Iguaque. It's located about 1 hour  from the town by bus; the entrance fee is $15 dollars.  It's well worth a visit solely to see the unusual types of fauna and flora.  The trek is approximately 4 hours long:  you move through numerous types of forest from wet jungle to a dry forest with the ty ...