Ella K.

                 I visited Columbia last week and  stayed for a few days. The first day I went to the Amazon Jungle. It was quite a long but very fun and entertaining walk. I walked down this short pathway and around the corner was a huge waterfall!! I looked down and I was standing on a bridge with a river below me. After that, I went down some other cool pathways and then accidently walked through a pathway of spider webs and a bunch of tailless whip spiders! So I ran out and decided to eat some lunch. I had some Ajiaco. It's pretty much like a different version of Chicken soup. After that, I went back to my hotel and just rested.
            
              The next day, I woke up early and decided to go to the botanical garden. When we first got there, I went to the rose garden and saw the 70 different varieties of roses. Next, I went to the greenhouse and saw the aromatic and medicinal plants. There were these really nice tourists that led us around the gardens and showed us where everything is and explained what it is. I also went to the Andean Forest, saw the 600 palm trees, and stopped for a snack. The food was delicious. I had Frijoles con Garra. After I ate, I went to a yoga class. It felt really good to stretch after a long walk.  I then took the bus back and hung out for the rest of the night in my hotel. 

              The next morning I woke up later and was more in a lazy mood. I thought the perfect thing for being lazy was to go to the zoo. I was on my way to the zoo when suddenly, a jaguar ran right in front our car! I didn't get a super good look at it since it ran by so fast but out of what I saw, it looked tannish orange and saw all of its black spots scattered around its fur. Once I got to the zoo, they announced that everybody had to leave the area because there were two running free jaguars. I was scared that another one was going to pop out in front of our car. I got back to the hotel and was bummed that we couldn't go to the zoo. Instead of going there, we drove around and explored what was around the area. There were many people but they seemed pretty normal to me. That day wasn't the best day that we had on that vacation.
  
 In conclusion, the trip was really fun and one of the best trips I've had. I would love to come back and visit Columbia again.