South America 2008

On our way to the Monserrate which is supposed to have great views of Bogota… I guess I’ll have to come back to check it out because we got clouds and rain and no views. It was great weather less than 20 minutes before we went up

Bolivar square in Bogota… tons of pigeons because people feed them. If you have some feed in your hand the pigeons will land on your arm and eat out of it. The people behind me caught a pidgeon by just lowering their hand

On our way out of Bogota we got a nice surprise… radar checkpoint! I guess going 80 miles and hour in a 60 km/h zone just won’t do for the Policia Caraterra of Bogota. We got away with a warning though

We’ve done so many nice twisty roads going south from Bogota… wonderful mountains!

Parking at the hotel isn’t always easy when there’s no valet

Parking at our Popayan hotel in the courtyard right outside our room… Popayan has all old colonial style buildings and they’re all white

On our way south throuhg Colombia the 100′s of miles of twisties is broken up by some long straights through beautiful farmland

Going south in Colombia towards Equador. The awesomeness of the mountains and valleys just can’t be captured with these photos. Go there to check it out for yourself.

We’ve hit rain every day for the last three days which is a real change from the previous 2 months of no rain at all.

Close to the border with Equador we were following a Police car and I didn’t dare pass them on the double yellow line. As they pulled up to a roadblock I just went for it and heard the horn behind me. As I stopped I noticed a constant dribble of rocks coming down from the mountainside! I got the hell out of there while Andy was stuck on the other side. We waited for about 10 minutes before they let traffic through.

Welcome to Equador. Getting immigration and customs sorted out before heading into a small border town for the night. Tomorrow we go for Quito.