For our last week in Colombia, we were staying with Alex and Claudia, friends from back home who had kindly offered to have us stay with them at their house in Pereira. We took a bus from Medellin, that traversed over steep mountain ranges with magnificent views over the valleys beneath. In places there was only the road, a few houses, and then sheer drops of many hundreds of metres on either side. We had opted for the front two seats, which made for some interesting viewing, not only of the vistas, but also of the overtaking manoeuvres employed by our driver. As the majority of the road was single lane, the bus driver had to overtake numerous slow trucks, many times on blind corners as there was not a straight stretch of road for more then 30 seconds at a time. Somewhat nerve racking at the beginning, we soon got used to it, as every driver on the hair pinned roads did it. There seems to be a common understanding amongst the drivers, as in the opposite lane they all slowed down to either let the bus overtake, or if in the originating lane the driver would slow down and let the bus slot back into traffic
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