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Been off this site for awhile and thought Id give a san gil and macondo update.

Life is good and the weather is great

San Gil is one of the lucky places to live this time of the year. It only rains at night, rivers are higher and better for rafting and kayaking (although occasionally get to big), fruits are more delicious and day times all fun in the sun.

My list of activities currently includes Rafting (up to grade 5), kayaking, hydrospeeding (bodyboarding on rapids), paragliding, absieling/rappelling in waterfalls, horseriding, caving and paintballing.

plenty of stuff to do by yourself, a couple of nice walks including a nice three dayer through the chicamocha canyon visiting the towns of santander, nice swimming holes and massive waterfalls to visit and shorter two hour walks. Plus the always beautiful parque gallineral.

check out a video on youtube, its the extended version of the El riesgo es que te quieres quedar series for santander

www.es.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-iBk9UV7g

(yes it is me)

Not much other news, done a bit of work on the house

New hostel opening in Bucaramanga (KGB)

dont get to spend as much time on the river as before as Im to busy which is a bit disapointing.

If anyones coming through this part of colombia check out the webpage or send me an email and I´ll give you all the advice you need

the websites now www.macondohostel.com.
email info at macondohostel.com

By cartersback on Jun 5, 2008, 11:53 in Travel tips.

Peter (Moderator) says on Jun 5, 2008, 11:57:

Welcome back :) Is the information here correct? http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/travel/hostel/macondo-guest-house/

(If not, it's editable).

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Peter (Moderator) says on Jun 5, 2008, 12:02:

Good thing you got your own domain name too :)

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cartersback says on Jun 5, 2008, 12:20:

Thanks for all the good work Peter

let me know if you need any writing down on areas of Santander

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Peter (Moderator) says on Jun 5, 2008, 12:30:

I'd love some more info on Santander - towns, hostels, things to do... You can easily add places by just clicking on the link on this page
http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/travel/

Also, a guide with things to do (rafting etc.) with tips, prices and how to's would be great too of course :)

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Peter (Moderator) says on Jun 5, 2008, 12:31:

Or perhaps just do some improvement of this guide: http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/travel/guide/things-to-do-in-san-gil/

Just click the 'edit' link below the text and add your improvements :)

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RUV says on Jun 5, 2008, 13:30:

Carter,

Nice web site. I have been wanting to go to San Gil for a while. That looks like my next stop. I think your youtube link is bad. I used this one and it worked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-iBk9UV7g

With the long hair you kind of blend in while you walked through the trees.

Thanks,

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adrimm says on Jun 5, 2008, 22:51:

I drove through San Gil **4** times and still managed to not stop in!! How ridiculous is that??!!! I saw some guests of yours (Austrians) in Barichara and told them to say hi for me.. back in November.

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Lchiwawa says on Jun 6, 2008, 02:10:

i've been wanting to go to san gil for a while now. about how much would it cost me to do pretty much everything shown on that youtube video or everything that you have mentioned as your list of current activities?

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webmanco says on Jun 6, 2008, 03:18:

I would love to go as well, traveling from Bogotá, maybe we could arrange to travel at least from a Thurday night until sunday or monday.

...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ...

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Chriscan says on Jun 6, 2008, 11:28:

If I could move anywhere in Colombia right now, it would be San Gill. I'm getting bored here in Santa Marta and the heat is getting to me. San Gill reminds me a lot of my home in the mountains in Canada too.

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