Return to Colombia
After Quito and the equator, I followed the Panamerican highway route to the border and into Colombia. Along the way I continued to encounter steep elevation changes, and saw some cute towns.
A new common sight in this region were migrants on foot. They are from Venezuela, and are heading south through Colombia, Ecuador, and to various other countries. They also use flatbed trucks, and perhaps buses, but the travel on foot seemed quite exhausting, yet common. Cities in this region have some aid infrastructure set up, and I was passed occasionally by cars from the United Nations.
Eleven months later, I returned to the same city where I turned around due to a closed land border. Last year, in Popayan, the main square was full of tents for getting vaccinated.
This time, there were tents again, but it was a busy festival celebrating indigenous cultures and natural foods and materials.
Up next, I’ll be resting my pedaling legs a few weeks in Medellín before heading to the Caribbean to make it to the end of this journey!
Link to my route: https://maps.findmespot.com/s/89NL
