Pasto

Now in Pasto in southern Colombia, after spending most of the last 4 days with Emilio - Sunday at an amazing private nature reserve called Nirvana run by the family of a friend of his, then the last 2 days traveling with him from Cali. He had to go to work in the forest just east of here (with indigenous communities in the Putumayo) and offered a ride in his car. Many interesting sights along the way, including many army or police checkpoints, especially between Cali and Popayan, which is in an area of much guerrilla activity in recent years. We were stopped a couple of times and searched once. Drove through some very diverse and beautiful terrain. Pasto seems like a nice town but I'm not going to have much time to look around since I need to be in Quito tomorrow. It's much cooler here in the mountains and has been raining much of the time.

Pasto, Colombia