Salento, Colombia is the Most Beautiful Place in Colombia!

I'm skipping ahead a bit, but I wanted to tell you why Salento is the most beautiful place in Colombia, arguably in South America.

Villa de Leyva is de-Lovely

Then we were off to Villa de Leyva, a small Spanish colonial town of only several thousands. It's a popular escape for Bogotans for the weekend. Surrounded by hills and beautiful nature, there are tons of activities to do around town, and great places to eat.

OMG BABY OSTRICHES!!

Soaring Above Sopó!

One of the days we were in Bogota, we took a day trip to Sopó to go paragliding. Only an hour outside of the city by bus, Bobo and Bev were able to soar above the beautiful terrain.

Bombs over Bogota

Big thank you to Luis for being an amazing host to us in Bogota! So lets talk about our little adventure before we got to Bogota:

In case it's too small to read, or you don't know Spanish, the headline says, "terror and death yesterday in Bogota"

More posts coming!

Hey readers, sorry for the radio silence. It has been three weeks since we got back to the US, but our blog still has us traveling in Ecuador! No bueno, entonces yo voy a escrebir mas (that's no good, so I'm gonna write more). Look out for a few more posts about our travels in Colombia, our reactions to being back in the US, some more packing lists and some closing thoughts.

Hats off to Ecuador

After the lengthy boarder-crossing process, unfortunately we only had 3 days to spend in Ecuador. Someone at our hostel in Cusco had just finished her semester abroad in Cuenca and the city came highly recommended to us, so we decided to spend our first two nights there. Cuenca is a beautiful small city with gorgeous architecture, a temperate climate (at least while we were there), and is apparently the number 1 place for retirees from the U.S. and Europe to settle. 

Packing List: Part 2 - The Clothes

Ok, that's probably it for gizmos, onto clothes. The winner of the best clothing item we brought is....


Shoes: Keen's Newport H2 [Link to Keen's website]:
These super versatile shoes have been our everyday shoes for 5 months! They're light, have lots of ventilation and don't smell for a while. Also, if you combine them with Smartwool socks they'll help you trek many cold cities (i.e. La Paz). I used to be a Teeva guy, but I've loved the full toe protection (save me from many rocks and other potential cuts).