Tadpat on the way

Hi friends and family,
After around 3 weeks in Colombia we're now in Ecuador.
In Colombia we met us again, after 2 weeks seperation. Patrick was in Panama and as far as I can say that, he had a good time. Meanwhile I visited you guys back home in Germany. My time was amazing. Seeing all my family and my friends.
Now together we travelled from Bogota, Manizales, Desert of Tatacoa, San Agostin, Coconuco, Pasto to Ipiales and there we crossed the border.
Bogota was cool. Fiestas, culture and old friends. Marius, a friend from Patricks study arrived by accident 2 days after us. And because we learned to convince people, we conviced him to travel south with us.... so we went together to the Salt Cathedral in Zipaquira and then Manizales was the next stop. Beautiful countryside while enjoying hotsprings. Next day we went to see a neigbour city and the countryside.
The Desert of Tatacoa is a red desert. Amazing but incredible hot.... uff!
To cool down we 3 went together to San Agostin to learn about ancient culture and have some party again. Because afterwards our ways splitted up. We went further south and Marius booked a flight from Bogota to Lima.
Coconuco is a small town. Nothing special, but to avoid an other big city and feel the local life!
Pasto is famous for it's Carnival, which is in January.... therefor the city has THOUSANDS of Hotels... because we're going to miss the carnival we went into the Museo del Carnival. Colourful! I wanna go back there once...
And the last stop is famous for the beautiful cathedral las lajas. The city is nothing special... :-) but there were elections and the city was full of people!

Now we're in Ecuador.... today Otavalo, tomorrow Quito.

Hope everybody at home is fine.

Lots of love and kisses.

Tadpat