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Panama & San Blas Islands

Days 265 to 281 – Sunday 11th to Tuesday 27th June 2006 I flew back to Panama, spent a week with Yami and returned to Cartagena. I then tried to go south to Medellin, but the buses were a little bit of a problem due to the FARC in the region, so I decided to [...]

Cartagena de Indias

Days 256 to 265 – Friday 2nd to Sunday 11th June 2006 Where the blog left off, I had just arrived in Cartagena. I arrived on the Thursday evening and I had a flight to Panama booked for the following Sunday. For whatever reason I decided to hang around the city for the weekend, and [...]

Taganga: Bye to Sweden, Hello to Shakira

Day 255 – Thursday 1st June 2006 Check out was 11am. Come 10.45 we rolled out of bed and quickly tried to pack our things up and leave. I decided that I wanted to go to Cartagena and hang around there for the 10 days until my flight to Panama, so it would be goodbye [...]

Cali: Guerilla Contact

Day 245 – Monday 22nd May 2006 Aaron & I woke up early as planned, packed our things up and checked out of our hostel. Our plan was to head to the Pacific coast of Colombia for the week before heading back to Cali for the weekend to hit the town.

Pasto: Blockades

Days 240 to 242 – Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th May 2006 Waking up for my first full day in Colombia was a decent feeling as Colombia was probably one of the countries I had most looked forward to visiting since starting to think about travelling in this part of the world.

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