Barichara is the coolest town I have seen in Colombia (so far). It’s in the department of Santander, and is a 7-hour bus ride from Bogota. Now, seven hours is not bad in certain buses, and we (Mark, Jose, and I) went with a company called Berlinas. We had gone to the bus station a few days in advance to buy the tickets (cost equivalent to about $20US one-way), but then we were able to actually catch the bus at the Berlinas office on Autoposta Norte at Calle 184 (just across the street from Santa Fe).
The bus was totally full, but the seats were comfortable, and they showed two movies on the trip. Also, we stopped for half an hour about four hours into the trip for dinner. So overall, it was not bad. I’m planning, with Jose, to take a 19-hour bus trip to Santa Marta in Semana Santa, so I was curious to see what it’s all about. The return trip, on Copetran, however, was a nightmare, but that’s another story.
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