Popayàn

I left Bogotà after four days, I arrived at Popayàn a nicely preserved Colonia city, and a good stop over on the way to San Agustìn, I went for a walk around the town, all the buildings are painted white, a couple of the musiums I wanted to visit were closed, I took a walk up a near by hill, were they put a statue of the founder of the city, giving me an overview of the town, but then it started to rain, so I eneded my tour of the town. I went for dinner at a local restaurant, had a good steak, remineded me of the excellent Argentinean beef, for breakfast and launch I just tried different kinds of "empanadas" they have. In the morning I was awoken by the immigration police knocking of the door of my room, they said it was a routine check, asked for my passport, and asked many questions, then left, I decided it was time for me to leave.

I took the bus to San Agustin, a very bumpy six hour ride on an antique bus, we were stopped by the military at some point, they checked the peoples bags, and did some body searches, for some reason they left me to be, they did not check my backpacks and neither did the body search on me. Three years ago there was a lot of fighting in this region between the goverment and the FARC, which is why little tourists visited this place in the last few years, but they are starting to come back now, I met a few people in Bogotà who were in San Agustìn, and they highly recommended it, so I decided to make this trip as well. I booked a jeep tour tomorrow, which will take me to some of the archiological sites and a couple of waterfalls. The hotels in this town are not that nice, but considering that only a handfull of tourists visit this place everyday, you can't expect much investment in tourisim.

My 512mb memory card is definitly dead, so is my memory card reader, the former means that I lost my pictures of Bolivia and the first couple of days in Colombia, the later means I can't upload images as often as I did before, I will wait until I accomulate some pictures, then get them burned on a CD in a photo shop, I will just keep writing the entries for now, and I will add the pictures to them later, when I can.