Category: World Trip 2019

A 24-day trip visiting two countries; USA and Colombia, between 9 August 2019 and 1 September 2019.

  • Friday 16 August 2019. Highlights: Replica town Peñol de Guatapé, Rock of Guatapé, Guatapé zocalos, tuk-tuk ride. Today was a full free day from the tour so the group split and did there own thing. Seven of us selected a day tour to Guatapé which our tour leader Miguel organised and joined us (cost 110,000…

  • Thursday 15 August 2019. Highlights: Exploring Medellín – Downtown and the infamous (but great) District 13, Monserrate Hill Cable Car ride. We have two full days in Medellín before catching at flight out on Saturday. Today was the chance to see Medellín up close and in depth while tomorrow some of us will leave the…

  • Wednesday 14 August 2019. Highlights: Long countryside private bus ride, a quiet beer in Medellín Today was a repositioning day to get from Salento to Medellín. That meant leaving our hotel in Salento at 7 am and attempting to get to Medellín before peak hour traffic.

  • Tuesday 13 August 2019. Highlights: Cocora Valley Hike, Playing Tejo (Colombian traditional sport). We started our day with an included breakfast at our Armenia estate and it was then off on a 50 minute drive to Salento for today’s activities – basically hiking and later trying to cause explosions!

  • Monday 12 August 2019. Highlights: Recuca Coffee Farm, Mi Monaco Farm Visit Today started with nice included breakfast at the beautiful Mi Monaco Estate. The sun shining and the excellent company of the group over breakfast was an ideal start to the day.