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 ...