John & Sun-Ling
Wander the Earth

Sun-Ling and John have been traveling the earth since 2008 while blogging, eating vegetarian and vegan, and riding public transportation. We love uphill day hikes, 20th-century architecture, Roman ruins, all bodies of water, local markets, shopping for groceries, aqueducts, miradors, trip planning, blablacar, and more.

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Showing posts with label colombia. Show all posts

Showing posts with label colombia. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Revelation on cemeteries

It seems to me that we are always visiting cemeteries on this trip. John and I both come from families big on cemetery visits and during ou...

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Life near the Equator

We have been at high altitude near the equator for a few weeks now. While it is not surreal here, or even strange, it is definitely differe...

Off the beaten path in Mocoa

In order to continue to Ecuador, instead of backtracking from San Agustin to Popayan, we came to Mocoa. While at 2000 feet above sea level ...

Our first archaeological site of the trip

From Popayan it is only five-and-half-hour bus ride to San Agustin, but we bumped around for four hours of it on 80 kms of unpaved road goin...

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Popayan is underwhelming

Popayan is a medium-sized colonial city. It is our least favorite so far. Traffic is bad. Buses, taxis, cars, and motorbikes produce much ...

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Our first market of the trip

Yet another day without internet. We have moved on to Silvia, a small town outside of Popayan, 25 kilometers off the Pan American highway, ...

Busy hiking in Salento

We are still in Salento without internet. We had two days of hiking around Salento. The first day we caught a jeep to Valle de Cocora , and...

We don't have internet in Salento

[I am writing this offline as we decided not to move to a room with internet.] Yesterday (10/08) we arrived in Salento after dark. After ...

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Bogota is hard to place

Bogota, at 8,650 feet above sea level, poses no altitude problem for us having acclimatized in Tunja (9200 ft), but we were not expecting s...

Monday, October 04, 2010

Flashing Lights

We pulled out of Tunja at about 9:30 on a big green, Chinese-made Libertadores bus with attendant and toilet, and almost immediately came t...

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Tunja is cold

We are in Tunja, 9200 feet above sea level, on a plateau. Unlike the previous towns, it is not surrounded by mountains. It is a very vibra...

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