Sogamoso, Colombia 🇨🇴 

The plan is to hike today with a group from the hostel, quite the international group with Spanish, Dutch, French and Colombian amongst us. It was nice to follow someone for a change as we caught a taxi and then a bus to the start of our hike. The scenery on the journey is stunning as we see Lake Tota and then wind down to tropical jungle type vegetation.

Our hike begins as a stroll along a rough path past a couple farms and over a few hand made bridges. It then starts the ascent, which is tough in the humidity. The vegetation is so green and huge it is just beautiful despite the building sweat and thigh burn. The Candelas waterfall which is fed by the Cusiana River is waiting for us about two hours in, it is the second highest in Colombia but we haven’t seen a soul and when we arrive we have the place to ourselves. This waterfall is immense, forget the height it is the sheer volume of water that is being pumped from the top that is so impressive. We eat our lunch here, Claire does some yoga poses for her blog and we leave slightly wetter than we arrived.  

The walk out is easy despite me slipping on a rock, we are out in an hour and a half. We get back to the road and have to wait 45mins for a bus. When one comes there are only 3 seats, so the boys heroically opt to sit on the floor, which looks uncomfortable for an hour and a half. Once back we shower and then I cook for the first time in months. It turns out okay and we are all starving so I think they would have eaten anything.