An Emmerous Adventure

if you can think of one, I`ll give you a prize!
anyway.. Still in Colombia, as per usual, but I`m leaving tomorrow on a boat to Panama, then fly to the US on the 19th, so goodbye to the Spanish speaking world in only a little while… very sad.
Anyhow, PHOTOS, because it`s easier than explaining.
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Bang!
So as per usual I have to apologise for being negelctful, I did type up a long Blog thing the other day but then my computer went crazy and I gave up. SO instead, I´ll give you a super quick rundown, and heaps of photos illustrating the huge amounts of fun that can be had in Colombia.
So, I went to Santa Marta, Taganga, Tyrona (paradise), Cartagena and back to my beloved Bogota. And I didn´t even get Dengue, though a whole bunch of other people did.
In Bogota I´ve been seeing friends, slowly figuring out Spanish classes and place to live and enjoying the city.
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So Medellin was fun, saw more Botero (he´s from there) and went to a massive EXITO (giant supermarket things that are everywhere in Medellin) and went to bizzare nightclubs with exciting folks from the hostel. I also ran into a couple of people who I´d met along the way on my trip, on of the i met in La Paz in Bolivia. Then it was off off and away back to Bogota on an overnight bus with Merav, an Israeli girl from the hostel in Medellin.
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I know I know, It`s been a photo drought, but here you go, from Foz de Iguazu onwards (sorry, you´re not getting any of Chile or the Salt flats, you`ll just have to wait for my return as the photos are on disks sitting on my bed in Sydney)
So here we go!
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Instead of doing a blow by blow account of my time in Colombia, I`m just going to tell you guys a few things about this most excellent country and some things I`ve done here.

Bogota
Bogota ia a cosmopolitan and modern city with a very cool old town, a seemingly endless supply of students and excellent museums and nightlife.
When I was in Bogota for a little more than a week i stayed in an excellent layed back hostel and met lots of very cool people.
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I´m waiting at the Sao Paulo airport (not the one where there was the crash because the runway is too short) for my flight to Lima and I thought i might pass the time with blogging!
There´s not really a lot to say though.
Went out to have fun and experience the nightlife of Santos with Marianna and friends, fun was had.
Went to the Island, sat on a nice beach, accidentally walked for AGES to a very nice beach and was rewarded by said nice beach. I basically did this for 3 full days. Unfortunately I was sharing the beach with sand flies, vicious little buggers that bit me all over, so now I have sand fly bites on my hands, legs and arms and they are very very itchy. I know I should stop itching but it feels so good!
I also got a little sun burnt and a little tanned.
Stayed in a place called Sinbad´s that had no pirate flavour whatsoever.
´´But it´s winter´´ I hear you say. Yes, it is, but it seems that the coast of Brazil is never really that cold at all and the sun shines all year round. My last and first days when i arrived and left were the only ones with a chill in the air.
Then it was back to Santos and then today to Sao Paulo. I also sent a big package home today in a box bigger than was required (so don´t be too shocked when it turns up Mum, Dad and Luke).
Have to book some accommodation no so it´s off off and away, I´ll report back again when there is more to say.

I just noticed that the blog has actually had over 1000 unique visitors apparently, how odd. Thought I´d better finish updating before I reach my next destination,where I´m pretty sure there is no internet. That exciting and mysterious location IS…Ilha Grande! If you want, you can check it out at
http://www.ilhagrande.com.ar/
So I´m psyched about that.
I think i need to tell you about Foz de Iguazu onwards. For those of you whatare slightly confused, that´s the Iguazu falls. They sit on the bordar of Brazil,Argentina and Paraguay, though it´s mostly Brazil and Argentina,I never heard of a Paraguayan side.

ba ba baaaa
I´m now writing later and the situation has changed, I´m pretty much being deported… very…. very… slowly.
BUT back to the falls.
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So I think I left you in Potosi when I was travelling with Henry and was about to head to Uyuni. Our last day In Potosi I met Helen who I knew from Cuzco and La Paz and she was heading in the same direction as us with a guy called Nik, so we bacame a little band of heros and headed off to Uyuni together after a fun last night in Potosi involving a massive Cigar and a dodgy Kareoke bar that wouldn´t let Helen do Kareoke.
Sorry for the spelling etc…this entry, i´m struggling with the keyboard.
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So I left you in the Pampas with some photos, it´s not 4 cities later and I have no photos for you, but suck it up eh?

I wouldn´t have returned to La Paz for more than a few hours if not for the necessity of a visa for Brazil. Unfortuanatly, I arrived back into La Paz off my exciting bus ride right into a public holiday and very little was open. Still, I decided to venture out to the Brazilian Embassy just in case and to find out where it is. I caught a micro (private mini vans that serve as buses ) down to the swanky end of town where lots of the apartment buildings and embassies are. Unfortuantly it was not open, but at least I had discovered where it was so I could venture out bright and early the next morning and stun the Brazilians into giving me an extra speedy Visa with my earliness.
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Here are some photos of fun in La Paz
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