With the car back in great shape, we headed on from San Gil to Villa de Leyva. We weren’t too excited about visiting “another colonial town.” Villa de Leyva turned out to be a very pleasant surprise, with nice architecture (all houses are built in a similar style, white walls and mediterranean tiles), mostly Colombian […]

On Christmas day, we finally arrived in South America. Cartagena was our first stop here, being the port city in which we arrived. It’s a beautiful old town that was fairly crowded, but most of the tourists here were Colombian. We spent a day strolling around the city, eating ceviche and enjoying the atmosphere. Immediately […]