Overland Travel or Flight
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In travelling through Columbia, I'm mulling over whether to go from Bogota to the coast by air or overland (or go by air and return overland or viceversa).
I think I'm favoring going one way by air and one way overland at this point. I'd rather break the journey up into some smaller 5 to 10 hour trips. I'm thinking of stopping in Mompos and Medellin.
Any feedback is appreciated:
How are the buses and the scenery travelling overland? Maybe they're good enough to warrant doing both ways by bus.
Any particular routes recommended between Cartagena and Bogota? I'll definitely be taking day buses as the primary purpose will be to see the country and saving money is secondary.
Also does anyone have recommendations for flights? I think looking on Avianca and another airline they were both around 650K round trip (Bogota-Cartagena). Is that about the best I should expect?
Thanks much!
I second Dirty W's request
Bus service between cities? Specifically, I will be flying in to Cartegena (cheap on Spirit Air from Ft. Lauderdale), then visit Medellin and some other towns in central Colombia, an area I lived in 25 years ago. I have no clue what things are like now, so any recommendations on ground transport between cities in Colombia?
Has the FARC/ELN situation really cooled off? Those ELN b******s drove me out of the country in the first place, so my instinct is to fly from place to place, but I would rather go by bus and see it again.
KD