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Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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Picture taken from http://www.cocuy108.blogspot.com/

After almost five months of staying in Bogota, basically Home-University-Home, I’m going on a trip!

The destination: Natural park El Cocuy, Colombia. Closer to Venezuela than it is toBogota, El Cocuy is a mountain range that goes up to 5300 meters above sea level (masl)! There is even snow (in Colombia that is a definitely a WOW).

Most of the landscape is Paramo, a certain type of ecosystem only found in South America, which Colombia has more than 60% of it. It starts at 2800 masl and finishes where the snow begins (4200masl).

We are going to camp, enjoy the stars, the silence and what I enjoy the most the cool fresh air.

I’m leaving today, be back on Monday.

Wish me luck!