by Jonathan Evans | May 10, 2010 | Colombia, Guest Blogging, South America
My latest guest post on how to survive long-distance bus travel in Colombia is now up on Medellin Living – you have my permission to go and read it there… [singlepic id=26 w=320 h=240 float=center]
by Jonathan Evans | Apr 20, 2010 | Argentina, South America
If there’s one way of impressing somebody who has never been to South America before, it’s by saying, “Oh I’m going to such and such tomorrow, it’s a 20 hour bus ride”. To someone who has been here before then all you’ll get...
by Jonathan Evans | Mar 11, 2010 | Ecuador, General Travel, Peru, South America
Was watching the local news yesterday and was a little bit freaked out to see a brief item about a bus crash having killed 4 people here in Ecuador. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but what caught our attention was that the bus had come from the Peruvian...
by Jonathan Evans | Feb 24, 2010 | Peru, South America
After all this time in South America it’s easy to become a little complacent in your expectations and you take a lot things in your stride. For example yesterday I saw a man crouched next to to a very wide and busy road having a poo in broad daylight....
by Jonathan Evans | Jan 21, 2010 | Colombia, South America
So, from Bogota we spent a couple of days in lovely colonial Villa de Leyva, about 4 hours north. On the way I got my first taste of Colombian bus drivers. In the cold light of day it’s one thing to sit here typing away and say that they drive like lunatics....
