Thewesternprovinceblog
A 🏴 history nerd travelling The New World. ¿What could possibly go wrong? Join me on my way to The fabled lands of Ar Wladfa 🇦🇷
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Hola Todos, for this blog I will talk about the main attraction of Salento, the famous Valle de Cocora. Today I decided to hike this place. So this morning I initially didn’t plan to go but as for no real reason I was up at 0630 today I decided to force myself out of bed…
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Hola todos. So for day 2 in Salento I decided a trip out of town is in order and so after chatting with some fellas in the Viajero anoche I decided it would be a visit to Finca Buenos Aires – a coffee plantation about half hour out of town. So to get there there…
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Hola todos! After that whole episode in Ibagué, I left off being sat on the bus to Armenia, I wanted to chill somewhere for a bit before Cali. Hoped Ibagué would be like that but no. However on the bus out of there I remembered a list of places my good friend Owen gave me…
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Hola otra vez todos! Well my short stay in Ibagué was quite the weird one and one that left me both mentally exhausted and rather pissed off. So what happened then? Firstly we are out of Bogotá in good order, head to terminal sur and get on a bus nice and easy. It’s about a…
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Hola todos! For my last day in Bogotá I decided to hop an Uber back down to la candelaria and go check out a few museums in the morning. First stop is the Gold Museum or Museo del Oro. 🪙. I arrive at it’s actually gratis para domingo which is excellent news for me save…
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Hola todos! Today was an exciting one as today’s wanderings took us deep into the depths of Zipaquirá, Colombia’s Very own mines of Moria! What is this place exactly? Buried 180 meters into the mountain within an ancient salt mine, the Catedral de Sal de Zipaquirá is hailed as the “First Wonder of Colombia.” It…
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Hola todos! Day 2 in Bogotá was quite a shitty one saved by an evening that ended up going really well. Entonces vamos a empezar! First up my initial 2 nights in this hostel was done and so I asked to stay one more night as while I wanted to move out of there I…
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Hola todos. For the first full day in Bogotá I decided to head to Monserrate, a sanctuary 3000 meters into the mountains. I’m up and running fairly early and go out for some coffee and an empanada before heading to the mountain. Now there’s two ways you can climb up this mile high mountain, there’s…
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Hola todos! This will be the first blog installment for my visit to Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city. Before we talk about Bogotá itself we must first briefly discuss the journey as it was one of the more tedious ones we’ve done on this trip. Probably the most since San Jose. It wasn’t the earliest of…
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Hola todos! Been a bit delayed writing this one up. So for my last day in Manizales I joined onto a guided walking tour around the city. I booked a local guide by the name of Viviana, this was another guided tour all done in Spanish. Good bit of practice there. Link to her tour…
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