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Day 3 – Bogota to Cali

Monday 9th April, 2012 2 Comments

Our flight today wasn’t until 12:50pm and with hotel checkout not required until 1pm, we were hoping for a sleep-in followed by a leisurely breakfast then catch the 11am shuttle bus to the airport. The reality was a little different. Andres was a little restless overnight and eventually woke up at 6am. He insisted that … [Read More »]

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Day 2 – Santiago to Bogota

Sunday 8th April, 2012 2 Comments

Early start this morning. With a 9:30am international flight out of Santiago, we needed to be checking in by 7:30am. Fortunately, the travel time between the hotel and the check-in area was about 5 minutes by foot. Indeed, it took longer to check out of the hotel than it did to walk to the airport … [Read More »]

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Day 1 – Sydney to Santiago

Saturday 7th April, 2012 2 Comments

A very big day today. We were up at 5:30am, I booked a taxi for 7am and we had a quick shower and breakfast. We woke Andres up at 6:30am – decided not to try and feed him breakfast before we go, instead we packed some snaplock bags with weetbix and cornflakes, plus some long life milk … [Read More »]

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Tidying and Packing

Friday 6th April, 2012 Leave a Comment

Spent the day tidying the house (and making room in the shed for the car!) and packing for the trip. We seem to have accumulated a little more gear than when we did our test pack a couple of weeks back. I had to re-distribute some gear to lighter bags to make sure they were … [Read More »]

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Visas Ready

Tuesday 3rd April, 2012 Leave a Comment

I went in to the Colombian Consulate to pick up our passports with the visas in them this morning. We are now officially ready to travel – all we have left to do is pack!

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