wanderlust and other stories: Calling Colombia!

Colombia! Famed for it's coffee bean production, as well as other stimulants! We decided to come straight to Colombia from Cuzco and the quickest way to do that was to fly. We hadn't been having the best of luck with transport recently ... it took us 3 days to leave Santa Cruz in Bolivia by plane and we were taken off our flight from Rurrenebaque because we hadn't confirmed our flights! ... so we were determined to make this flight work! And it did work! Well, it almost didn't ...

Because we are budget backpackers we bought a flight to Medellin which was actually 3 flights and took 16hours! We made it successfully to Lima and Bogota but when we came to take our flight our 6am flight to Medellin after a quick snooze in the terminal that's when the problems started. Firstly, we weren't flying with the airline we thought we were so had to queue a few times at various desks. Then when we found the correct desk they told us we were in the wrong terminal! At this time we had less than an hour to check, go through security and get to our gate ... in a different terminal! Cue panic! Luckily the two ladies at the desk understood our concerns and checked our bags in for us ... we then had to find a cash point in order to get a taxi to the other terminal. After some crazy Benny Hill style antics and a lot of Spanglish we got to our terminal, raced through security and thanked our lucky stars once we got to the gate. It was a close call ... far too close for 6 in the morning.

Finally we arrived in Medellin ... with most of our bags ... a miracle we got any of our bags considering the terminal nightmare! And headed to our hostel to commence a weekend of celebrating our arrival in a new country!