Cafe Life and Being Short of Breath!
Trip Start
Jan 03, 2007
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Trip End
Feb 21, 2007
Manizales, Colombia
Saturday, January 20, 2007
& spluttered, having to rest every minute or so... I certainly wasn't the only one to have problems, but it was sooooo frustrating!! Eventually we reached the glacier at 5,100m, lying between 2 craters. The many clouds temporarily cleared to give awesome views 
of the rich black old lava & the ice-white glacier. In 1985 this volcano erupted & melted its icy top, sending a torrent of mud down the valley like a river, where it swept away 23,000 inhabitants of the town of Amero to their deaths. I stayed in a sweet travellers' hostel in Manizales called Mountain House, near the university in the chilled open-air cafe
section of the town. I was tempted by the relaxed atmosphere to stay a little longer than planned, & managed to squeeze some new clothes into my increasingly bulging rucksack! 
