June 2010
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Welcome to Quito
My first day in Quito and the Jet Set Zero team is dragging my tired, road-weary, altitude-sick self all over town. But once we got to the top, the views (and the Virgin-cum-dragon) made it all worth it. Read about my introduction to Quito
The Never-ending Road to Quito
Time to make moves and get to Quito. My itinerary went like this:
Day 1 – 4:00pm: From Cartagena I flew to Bogota, and on to Cali, which lies in the south of Colombia
Day 1 – 9:15pm: I took a 10-hour overnight bus from Cali to the Colombian border town of Ipiales
Day 2 – 7:30am: Arriving at the bus terminal in the Ipiales, I took a minibus to the actual border
Day 2 – 8:00am: I went...
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Taking the Heat in Cartagena
Cartagena’s Old Town is all the things you imagine in an old colonial town: romantic and colorful, with flowers dangling from balconies and honest-to-goodness horse-drawn carriages parading through the cobblestone alleys.
While the rest of the city may disappoint with its never-ending stream of vendors and flirtatious working girls, life inside the walled Old Town is still charming, with...
Colombia Calling
With a week before all four members of Jet Set Zero will be meeting up in Quito together, I decided to take a slight detour to Colombia first. I’d been craving a visit to seaside Cartagena for years, and I thought, Why not now?
And with Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, I am pondering whether it would be cruel or kind to call my mom from Colombia – collect, of course – because I...