(Not) Leaving Mérida
As I hinted at the end of my last post, getting out of Mérida wasn’t quite as easy as I had hoped. I’d booked the (fairly secure) night bus heading […]
As I hinted at the end of my last post, getting out of Mérida wasn’t quite as easy as I had hoped. I’d booked the (fairly secure) night bus heading […]
Zipaquirá is a pleasant colonial town two hours from Bogotá’s city centre by public transport (see below). Twenty minutes walking distance from the small town centre is a rock salt […]
The border crossing from Ecuador into Colombia turned out to be one of the biggest tests of wit and South American stamina so far. Hardly surprising, considering that the first […]
If I had two words to describe Misahuallí in eastern Ecuador, they would be ‘wow’ and, uh, ‘wow’. It took two separate buses and one 30 minute ride in the […]
No, you didn’t read that wrong, five dollars is seriously all you need to take a short day trip to the first and second refugios* and admire the surroundings from […]
After a month and a half exploring Peru and hugging the northern coastline, it was a strange feeling to be crossing the border into my fifth South American country, Ecuador. […]
grin·go /ˈgriNGgō/ Noun derogatory. A white person from an English-speaking country (used in Spanish-speaking regions, chiefly Latin America). [Source: Dictionary.com] Okay, I admit it, I hate gringos sometimes. They wear […]
A friend from universuty contacted me recently to ask me a few questions about my trip so far, to help her with her planning. As usual, I found myself rambling […]
It was one of those spur-of-the-moment travel things that I hadn’t really planed on doing until I was asked, or rather, told: “Teddy, you know how you finish work at […]