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Read more about the article Santa Marta, Pereira and Salento

Santa Marta, Pereira and Salento

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 I had a tight iteanary and managed to spent very little time in these cities . But these are worth exploring for couple of days Salento Salento was my first stop before starting the trek in Los Nevados national park. It is nice little colourful town . I reached here after a long bus journey from Medellin . Reached at late evening and there was a fisco at the hotel , they given me a wrong key and I was pretty much locked out. Walked around the town center…

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Trekking in Salento Area

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 Valle de Cocora to Finca La Argentina Length: 9.9km Alt. start: 2,400m Alt. end: 3,400m Departure: 8am Lunch: El Bosque I met my guide at Salento around 8:00 am to be ready to leave by 8:30 am and hop on a Willys Jeep for the 12km drive to Valle de Cocora where our Trek starts. Valle de Cocora is a natural cloud forest and home of the Colombian national tree Palma de Cera. This giant wax palm tree, the tallest in the world growing up to 65 meters, was near extinction…

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Bogota

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 Bogota was my last stop in Columbia before flying out. My flight from Santa Marta arrived mid morning . I had to pay little extra for early check in . Latter in the afternoon I booked a city tour to cycle around Bogota and learl some of the fascinating history. We rode bike to traditional food markets, a coffee factory, the bullfighting stadium, the Central Cemetery, the historical center and through Bogota's many plazas, parks, and neighborhoods.                    …

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Medellin & Guatape

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 I arrived Medelline pretty late in the evening . The hotel was modest but comfortable . Took a taxi and reached at the hotel and went to sleep. Next morning I had booked the trip to Guatape. Guatape is one of those post card perfect place which is hard to miss. We stopped at a small town enroute and had our breakfast then we were dropped at El Penol with some free time and option to climb the rock. It has 740 steps and $6 ticket per…

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Lost City Trek – LA CIUDAD PERDIDA

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴   Day 1 I was picked up from my hotel and was driven to the company office to pay up the dues and after that it was long and bumpy ride to starting point of El Mamey town . This drive took about 3.5 hours. We then had our lunch at El Mamey. From El Mamey hiking starts , it was about 4 - 5 hour hiking to Adam Camp . The evening was spent in chit-chatting with group . There was a good dinner in the evening and…

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Armenia

🇦🇲 🇦🇲 🇦🇲 Day 1 : Tbilisi to Yereven by road I decided to take a private transfer . I was picked up from my hotel around 7 in the morning .Our first stop was Sevanavank monastery, located in Lake Sevan. Lake Sevan is the pearl of the Armenian mountains. A volcanic creation of blue eyes beauty located 1900m. above sea level is the second highest sweetwater lake in the world rounded by beautiful mountains. Sevanavank monastery is one of the most beautiful monasteries in Armenia,  located on the pick of Sevan…

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Georgia

🇬🇪 🇬🇪 🇬🇪 Day 1 Batumi I flew from Baku and landed at Batumi in the afternoon . It was easy to get Uber all over Georgia, I got a Uber and reached to Orbi Aprtments , these were huge apartment blocks built in new boulevard. Though I had a booking through booking.com , my booking was not honoured and I ended up paying double price for a similar apartment with someone else. Nevertheless Batumi is very popular resort city and it is quite popular with locals. Batumi often known as "Pearl…

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Azerbaizan – Baku and countryside

🇦🇿 🇦🇿 🇦🇿 Azerbaizan is a transcontinental and land-locked country bordering between western asia and eastern europe bordering the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south. This was my first coutry in list of 3 countries (Azerbaizan, Armenia, Georgia)  I was covering in this trip. I arrived Baku early morning via a overnight flight from London Heathrow by Azarbaizan Airlines . Day 1 Baku : I arrived Baku at early morning . I was provided a free…

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Cornwall

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 We started on Friday after an early lunch from home around 12 . Drive itself should take 5 to 6 hours but due to notorious M25 traffic it was over 7 hours with some breaks till we reach our overnight accomodation at YHA Boswinger where we stayed for 2 nights. Day 1 Our day started fresh and early after we had our breakfast at YHA .We walked down to Hemmick beach which was completely destered at that time in the morning .Hemmick is a small and attractive sandy beach…

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Road Trip: Lake District

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 Day 1 This is a short road trip only for 2 days. I left early from home drove for around 3 hrs for about 188 miles to service station for a break and breakfast then drove for another 2 hours to Crummock water. On the way there were some waterfalls , I stopped at Moss Force waterfall. This is possibly the most accessible waterfall in the Lakes, being barely more than 200m (220 yards) from the roadside. It is situated on the crest of the pass at Newlands Hause…

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