In fact, before I came to Colombia, I didn’t know about other cities except Bogota, Medellin and Cali. If it wasn’t for the Argentinian friend I met in Beijing a year and a half ago who strongly recommended me to go hiking in Tayrona National Park, I wouldn’t know about San Francisco at all. Marta is a city in the north of Colombia.

When I came to Santa Marta, I met (or should I say "I didn't meet"?) a sofa owner who was the most willing to help and trust the sofa guest since I used the sofa guest software last year. I originally planned to live in a youth hostel, but the sofa owner took the initiative to contact me on the day I came to this city, saying that the apartment where he lived with his wife and daughter could accommodate me. …

In the afternoon, I arrived at the third stop of the Colombian tour: Cartagena, a seaside city. When I got off the plane, a burst of heat came to my face. It was more than 30 degrees and the humid coastal climate made me sweat immediately. I just watched a pirated movie in Bogota-Will Smith's new movie Gemini Man, which was filmed here. Ordered two…

Yesterday, the tour guide of the city walking tour recommended to go to a small square in the city center after 5:00 pm to experience the life of local people playing music and dancing. I took the long-distance bus from Guatapé back at just the right time. I stood among the crowd for half an hour, watching the locals sing and dance happily, and was deeply infected by their enthusiasm. Old men and old women walk lightly,...

In the morning, go to the coach station and take a bus to the Guatapé boulder, two hours away from the city center. The girl sitting next to me on the bus chatted with me all the way, and I admired myself for over an hour in Spanish, and then fell asleep after overusing my brain. This girl is an aboriginal in a small village, moved to Medellin 13 years ago, and is now a civil...

Recommended by a friend, I participated in a free city walking tour of Medellin (just give a tip), and decided to go to the one at nine o'clock in the morning. The tour guide was very interesting, using his personal experience to let me understand the more real history of Colombia and Medellín, not exactly what was depicted in the TV series "Narcos". Medellín was once known as the "land...

I made complaints about VivaAir’s low-cost airlines. If you don’t have a paper boarding pass, you will not be allowed to board the plane with an electronic boarding pass. It will cost you to print the boarding pass at the airport. It is about 13 US dollars. It’s really expensive for such a piece of paper. In the morning when it was dark, I rushed to the airport. I left in a hurry and forgot my glasses at the sofa owner's house in Bogota. Arrived in Medellin to receive his...

It has been a whole year since I started backpacking alone last year, and I started a new journey again, going to South America for the first time. El Salvador connecting flight to Colombia. The little Brazilian beauty sitting next to San Francisco on the same flight lived in Santa Cruz, and when they arrived in El Salvador, they also transferred to Colombia together. Chatted all the way, and then talked about Southern California, her husband is...