Current location: Bucaramanga- try saying it out loud, it´s great fun. I´m staying with Tania, a super nice couchsurfer that I met in Bogota. She lives with her parents, her sister, and her dog. Last night we had a cosy slumber party, us 3 girls, in the bunk beds. This was after we went out to celebrate another couchsurfer´s birthday. We went to an outdoor games spot which to me resembled a driving range, and played a game called Tejo. It consisted of throwing heavy lumps of metal at a target box filled with clay. The purpose was to hit the the red triangle target in the middle, which happens to be a small explosive that when hit fills the air with smoke. I was horrible at the game and couldn´t even get the lump into the clay...
I spent the 2 previous nights in San Gil, which is known as the adventure sport capital of Colombia. The only activity I was interested in was the bungee-jumping, but I couldn´t find anyone at the hostel to go with me and it´s not something you want to go doing alone... Instead, I went on a hike to some impressive waterfalls then to Gallineral Park the first day in San Gil. Yesterday I hopped a colectivo to a nearby town called Barichara- the guide book calls it a colonial town ¨par excellence¨. The streets were all cobblestone like Villa de Leyva, which for me means nothing more than that it´s hard and painful to walk on. Despite this, I decided to hike an hour and a half to the even smaller and more remote town of Guane, named after the indigenous group. At the start I did not realize that this path too was all cobblestone, built sometime in the lates 1800´s. Oh well, I thought- I´ll just take the bus back. But alas, I missed the bus back by about 5 minutes because I had to stop for a tropical jugo natural. 3 hours on cobblestone does not put Krista in a good mood. I am considering it all training for Ciudad Perdida though- the 6 day hike that I will be taking very soon.
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