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"Travels accept begun" Ecotripping's photos about Honda, Colombia (mompox colombia wiki gabriel)

!±8± "Travels accept begun" Ecotripping's photos about Honda, Colombia (mompox colombia wiki gabriel)

Preview of Ecotripping's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Honda, Colombia Entry Title: "Travels have begun" Entry: "Hi y´all, I have officially left Bogotá and will be traveling through the heart of the Colombia down the its most important river, the Magdalena and onto the Caribbean. Yesterday I left with Fernando (I wrote a whole intro to him but my computer broke and I couldn´t send it out) but for now, he is my traveling buddy, a 21 year old philosophy student eager to see parts of his country very few people know. We first left the strangling capital traffic and arrived in Facatativa (say that 3 times, even slowly), the first place Símon Bolívar stopped on his last journey. Back then it was a village, now it´sa small city. We went to its only tourist attraction, a arqueological park, with pictographs drawn and carved giant stones, placed their by the hand of god or glaciers or whatever. Though it is beautiful with pretty vistas, it costs money to get in and is surrounded by barbed wire fence, which keep out vagrants and trash, though a small sluiceway of sewage flowed underneath some rocks. There is nothing dedicated to Bolívar and in fact one of the parks is named after his chief rival, Paula Santander. The restaurants have nothing vegetarian so I ate a tomato and avocado sandwich while Fernando had greasy chicken and fries. We decided to ...