We were suppose to catch the earliest bus to Popayan, but weather looked way too good to be sitting on a bus the whole day. Instead of we took Willys Jeep to Cocora.
Hike through the valley was so beautiful!! I can't describe how pretty it was so hopefully you get the idea from the pictures. It took less than two hours to reach Acaime, humming bird house. We spotted at least five different species. I am totally in love with kolibris. Sound of their wings and color of the feathers.. And how tiny they are?! I didn't know that there are so many different ones, some with long peak, some with long tail.
We did a loop around Montañita. Pretty steep uphill climb, but totally worth it! View down to the valley was amazing and we got to walk right next to the tall wax palms. Felt myself very short ;) Absolutely right decision to do the hike, even it meant we had to travel night time. Got to Popayan at 10.30pm without hostel reservation and for our luck all the places were full! Damn, after one hour search (pretty much saw the whole town already) we finally found one!
