Archive for the 'Colombia 2009' Category

We arrived in Auckland around 3am (they served us breakfast before we landed!). We stumbled off the plane, leaving most of our bags behind and only taking enough for a couple of feeds for Andres. We had to pass through the transit area before heading into the main part of the airport to wait for [...]

Leisurely start to the day – up in time for breakfast at the hotel and then we got ready to go out for the day. Clear skies made it look much more inviting to go outside, even though it did still look very cold.
We got one of the hotel drivers to drive us to the [...]

Had a nice sleep in this morning – lovely soft bed makes a nice change to the rock-hard beds they seem to prefer in Colombia. Andres did wake up a little early and was grizzly, but after a feed, we put him in the bed with us (king sized bed – plenty of room for [...]

Very early start this morning – 5:30am alarm to get us up in time to catch our ride to the airport. I didn’t sleep well at all, so it was a bit of a struggle to get going. After a quick breakfast, Patricia picked us up just after 7am to drive us to the airport [...]

Our last breakfast at the Hotel Caribe this morning – I took some photos of us eating by the pool. After breakfast we headed down to say goodbye to the Tamarin, and on the way we discovered they have a resident three-toed sloth at the hotel too! I’ve never seen one up close before, he [...]