En route to the capital, Bogotá
Guadalupe: We left San Gil after an amazing week of camping, adventure, and riding our bikes in the mountains, and headed a few hours south to the small mountain town of Guadalupe. We stayed in a lovely hostel run by Jose, who is an adventure biker, and who runs a bar in the town too. We loved the small town feel of Guadalupe, it’s a place not many tourists visit, and we enjoyed chatting to the locals about our trip and wandering around the town. We spend an afternoon on Jose’s bar, meeting his friends and chatting to the locals. We did a ride out to visit a waterfall one day, though we didn’t go for a swim as the water didn’t look too clean! We also hiked to Las Gachas - natural swimming pools formed in a river bed from erosion of the rocks over time. We had good fun dipping in the pools and enjoying the cool water, we were lucky to be the only ones there! Ash also saved some frogs who got stuck in a deep pool. The walk there and back was nice too - lots of views of the mou...