After six weeks in Colombia we were dreading the border crossing into Ecuador. The crossing is renowned to take for ages. The current unstable situation in Venezuela has lead to many fleeing their country and trying to cross into Ecuador. We were lucky tough – we checked out within minutes and only had to queue…Continue Reading “Ecuador: NYE in Quito and Exploring Volcano Pichincha”
In Bogota our friend Basil joined us for the next stretch of the journey – on his newly purchased Chinese dirt bike – an AKT TTR200. The little Chinese bike made us a bit nervous: how long would that thing last? would it spectacularly explode and let us stranded in the middle of nowhere? Buying…Continue Reading “Colombia: Tatacoa Desert X-Mas and Riding The Death Road”
The next few days were spent in the coffee region of Colombia, hanging out at the Finca Steelhorse in Filandia. This place is run by an English couple who have travelled on bikes and have now turned a small farm into a overlander guesthouse surrounded by a lovely garden with pigs and a horse. Josh…Continue Reading “Colombia: Exploring Coffee Lands and Volcano Nevado del Ruiz”
The plan was to head west direction Medellin to Guatapé along the Highway 60. On the map the road was marked as a highway with the same thick white line leading all the way there. The road started out paved and lead up to 4’000m over a misty mountain pass and soon turned into a…Continue Reading “Colombia: Offroad Fun and Exploring Pablo Escobar’s Past”
As we got closer to the Colombian coast the waters finally calmed down and we could see the lights of Cartagena just as the sun set. Early the next morning the boat’s crew started unloading the bikes at a nearby dock until the workers decided to stop the process because some of the papers where…Continue Reading “Colombia: From The Caribbean Cartagena to the Highland Villages”