Day 4: Saying Good-bye to El Cocuy

11. June 2010 El Cocuy, Colombia 0
It was two days before Christmas and no one back in El Cocuy town could give us an answer, via Susima’s radio, as to whether there would be a bus back to Bogotá on Christmas Eve. We had a wedding to go to in Medellín the day after Christmas which meant we had to be ...

Day 3: Hiking Pulpito de Diablo, El Cocuy

25. May 2010 El Cocuy, Colombia 0
It’s hard to find the perfect adjective to describe the feeling you get when you see a rocky mountain view interrupted only by thin sheets of fog the first time you step out of a tent, but that’s what sticks in my mind when I recall our mornings in El Cocuy. Sharp boulders lay beneath ...

Day 2: Hiking El Cocuy, to Laguna Pintada

02. February 2010 El Cocuy, Colombia 0
I don’t know how it ended up that we both don’t have a watch. Since none of our phones were working in El Cocuy, we had to leave the TV on while we slept to help us wake up at 5:30am in order to catch the lechero at 6am. After a sleepless night, I woke ...

Day 1: Getting from Bogotá to El Cocuy, Colombia

25. January 2010 El Cocuy, Colombia 6
Our connecting flight in Fort Lauderdale was delayed a couple of hours because of a snowstorm in the northeast, but we managed to get in Bogotá, Colombia before sunset. Señor Samuel was holding up a piece of paper with our names on it as soon as we exited the El Dorado Airport Customs. He was ...