Happiness Is Just Around The Bend

3 months flew by and just before I knew it, I had to renew my tourist visa for Buenos Aires. The wonderful thing about Bs. As., other than the beef and beauty, is that the city is across the river from Uruguay. A 1-hour ferry ride got me and my buddies to Colonia, but we didn´t want to stay in the quaint town. We wanted beach. From Colonia we took a 5-hour bus ride to Punta del Este, a well-recognized getaway spot for the porteños (Argentines). What I saw of the countryside was nothing at all quick of breathtaking. It´s humble with small hills, a handful of trees, lots of cows, sheep, and horses. But a thing about it created my heart warm. Possibly it was the tiny towns we passed by means of, the little ones playing football, the adults sipping mate. Or, perhaps it was seeing what a nation truly appears like, how the people today definitely reside, on the inside. We checked into our hostel, El Viajero, around six p.m., took a siesta, showered and were pumped to start the weekend. Wh...

A single of the most well-liked day trips from Bogotá is to head about an hour north to Zipaquirá, house to the famous Salt Cathedral. To get there you have to head to the finish of the line of the Tranmileno (see above), Bogotá´s above-ground subway program. Zipaquirá, like most towns settled by they Spanish, has an immense square with a attractive cathedral towering more than it as well as several side streets with smaller shops and restaurants. Immediately after another extraordinary lunch from a neighborhood restaurant’s Menu del Dia, I took the quick walk to the edge of town to the Salt Cathedral, the location of a working salt mine exactly where a cathedral, complete with an whole stations of the cross, was dug out of the middle of the mountain. As I was taking the tour with my personal personal guide by means of the caverns (I was the only English-only visitor that day) he told me, “Five miners died in a methane explosion here 4 years ago, but we really should be a...