The Cordillera Blanca, Peru (part 1)

Travelling back from Bogotá, where Patricia had attended a conference recently, we made a stop-over in Peru instead of heading back directly to Santiago. For a while now, we've been wanting to visit the Cordillera Blanca, last year we nearly made it… but then Patricia started a new job and the plans were shelved.

Bogotá

Patricia had to go to a conference in Bogotá recently, and since we hadn´t been there before we decided to travel together and spend a couple of extra days to explore the city. Colombia is quite a way from Chile (i.e. a 6 hour flight), so after all these years in South America it was only our second brief visit to this beautiful and diverse country.

Fiery drinks and snowy peaks

The southern winter has caught up with us again and, just like in previous years, the mountains around Santiago have had their first coat of fresh snow at the end of May, while down here in the city we finally received some badly needed rain.