I just got back to Washington at mid-day today, after two weeks in Colombia. Before I left, I replaced my four-and-a-half year-old phone with a current model, because the old one’s port wasn’t always connecting to the cable and I didn’t want to find myself there with an unpowered phone.
The new phone isn’t much different than the old one, with one huge exception: the camera, which makes me seem like a much better photographer than I actually am.
Here are some images that are less work-related but just pretty cool. Presented in no particular order. Click on any to expand in a new window. (I’ve shared other photos from the trip in two earlier posts.)
Bogotá at night.
Mural in El Placer, Putumayo, Colombia.
A few hundred people from Embera-Katío Indigenous communities, displaced by violence in northwestern Colombia, have been camped since October in Bogotá’s Parque Nacional, in the middle of the city near the Javeriana University.
A griffin atop Colombia’s Congress building.
The people of Ipiales, Nariño celebrated Halloween with aplomb.
Not usually a fan of dressing kids up as cops, but the kid in the lower left in Ipiales is super cute.
The spot where we had a hearty breakfast in La Bonita, Ecuador, along the border with Nariño, Colombia.
Outside Lago Agrio, Ecuador, a few minutes’ drive south of Colombia.
Paramilitary display in the “Museum of Memory” in El Placer, Putumayo. The building used to be a school (hence the beat-up chalkboard), where paramilitaries committed numerous abuses. One of the photos on the chalk ledge was taken by me in 2004.
Darién Gap-bound migrants bathing in the Gulf of Urabá in Necoclí, Antioquia.
Boats in Necoclí, ready to take migrants across the Gulf of Urabá to the Darién Gap.
Orito, Putumayo on Saturday night.
Central Bogotá’s Plaza de Bolívar, recently grafitti’ed by student protesters.
Roadside arepas in La Hormiga, Putumayo.
Looking into San Miguel, Putumayo, Colombia from the Ecuador side of the border bridge.
Provisions for migrants’ walk through the Darién Gap, on sale near the dock in Turbo, Antioquia.
The army and police welcome you to Urabá, northwestern Colombia (at the Apartadó, Antioquia airport).
At the Rumichaca bridge between Ipiales, Nariño, Colombia and (in the background) Tulcán, Carchi, Ecuador.
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