After a whirlwind tour of Bogota, we took another long bus ride. This one involved a driver with a dixie cup of ice cream in one hand, spoon in the other, talking on his cell phone and somehow navigating a huge bus down a very steep windy road called The Devil's Nose.
Our supposed express bus, made stop after stop. At the lunch stop, we lost one of our passengers who got confused and got on the wrong bus. It took a half hour sorting that out and another half hour of her wailing about it on the bus. Then we got pulled over by the national police and had to get off, guys patted down and all id's had to be checked through their computer. Then there were the falling rocks on the road we had to wait to be cleared.
Finally we arrived in the dark at our destination after traveling all day, only to find our hostal had overbooked and we had to move to a different place they secured for us.
A new day and sunny sky and a new hike put us right and we are back on track. R has some good photos of this amazing spot with the world's tallest palm trees at 6000 to 9000 ft.
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