This is a national park west of Bogota. One of the Colombian guys we meet when we went to Lake Guatavita recommended it to me.

Jason, a Canadian guy at the hostel, decided to go to and we thought we would get there by public transport. The first leg of the journey was on the Transmilenio, which wasn’t too bad. But then we had to get a local bus and we ended up initially going in the wrong direction. We then tried to get a taxi but the particular taxi we flagged down couldn’t go into that zone. He told us to get a bus which we did but after two minutes the driver said to get off and get on a different bus. This last bus was actually going in the right direction and we told him we wanted to get off at the park but he overshot the stop by about 2km – which meant a 2km hike back along the road and then a 3km hike from the bus stop to the park entrance. But after a 3 hour journey we got there!

And the park was lovely. It’s a cloud forest- as you can tell by the photos.

We hiked up to a viewpoint and then to the butterfly point – which was a bit disappointing as we didn’t see any butterflies. But we did see a gorgeous blue bird.

All in all I think we hiked 5km around the park and the trails were pretty steep both up and down.

I was glad to get back to the top. Coincidentally the two Israelian girls I met doing the salt cathedral tour were at the exit and had arranged a mini bus back to Bogota so we joined them on that. And then it was just a few stops on the Transmilenio and we were back at the hostel.

I had a lovely hot shower and chilled out a bit before getting a taxi to the airport. The taxi driver was lovely – he didn’t speak much English but he gave me a guide of the city as we drive to the airport.

At the airport the immigration was really tight – it was probably harder to get out of Colombia than in.

Now I’ve got a 6 hour flight to Salvador ahead of me – I’m hoping I’ll get some sleep on the plane.