Well we didn’t start the trip off as planned.  When we got to the bus terminal, an hour early like good little backpackers, we found out the bus was delayed.  No surprise there considering we’re in Latin America and things are never on time here.  What got us a little worked up was that when bought the tickets it was the same price to go to Cali or Ibague (which is 4 hours from Bogota).  We decided last night to just get off at Cali and spend a few days there, as we had a friend that was there already.

When we tell the guy we’re getting off at Cali he said the bus doesn’t actually go directly to Cali but stops at a highway an hour away and that we would have to get our own transportation to Cali on our own.  This kind of shocked me a little as we had been talking with the guy the day before about going to Cali or all the way up to Palmira and this was never mentioned in the conversation.  We jogged his memory about that conversation and ended up coming to an agreement that they would give us $20 back because of it.  Not sure if we came out ahead on this deal, as only time will tell.  I’m more worried about getting dropped off in some shady town at 11pm with no clue on how to get to Cali.

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