This place is amazing. It’s a half hour jeep ride from the town square in Salento along a fairly decent road.

I went with Bob and Peter and when we arrived we were directed onto the path to take – which was actually not the way we’d planned to go hour in the end it worked out a good route.

As soon as you get to the valley you can see the massive palm trees – I’ve never seen anything like it before.

It’s a good couple of hours hike with a pretty steady upward incline, to get to the small finca at the top – at 2860m. It’s a good resting place and they serve a nice cup of coffee.

From there it’s about another hours hike to the hummingbird sanctuary, down and then up, over some rickety bridges. We saw a variety of different hummingbirds and they whizz right past your head.

The entrance fee include a hot chocolate with cheese – I’m getting quite a taste for this.

We also met a coati whilst having our drink, he was really cute.

It was then another 2 hour hike through pine forests, along a river (I got wet feet) before arriving back at the starting point.

Salento itself is also really pretty but quite a bit more touristy then Jardin.

We went to watch the sunset at the Mirador but it was cloudy and we got there a little bit late.

But we stopped for an artisan beer as it had started to rain before heading back into town and having some delicious food at Cafe Barroca and a couple if runs in the square itself. Bob and I also tried a little bit of salsa and merangue.

Great day but feeling tired now – hopefully I’ll sleep past 5am which seems to be the time I’m waking up at the moment for some reason.