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The exchange-year is nearly over now. For the most, there are only a few days left in Colombia until they go back to their home-country. Therefore, there was a last ICYE camp in "Villa de Leyva", 4 hours from Bogotá. Weather: pretty warm, sometimes windy. Here I present the final class 2006 of ICYE: After we arrived, we just went down to the centre, to the main place the "plaza principal", the biggest place in colombia: When we were riding to a lake, we took the poss oportunity to take a last foto together.

In the night the town looks very beautiful and very quite as long you are not in the center at the big "plaza", because there you will find a lot of people hearing music, drinking beer, chilling around and dancing to colombian music ;)


You can find a lot of tourists there, many americans I have seen there, so WE, THE FOREIGNERS, weren´t that special on the next day, when we went to the centre to go shopping and to go around:

Unfortunately we didn´t have that much time to see a lot of the town. I didn´t take that much fotos from our trip when we were riding horses, but therefore there is a lot of material in my video.
Anyway on the next day, we went a little bit more outside to visit an old women who creates things by totem. We had the posibility to watch her while she was creating a new figure. Nice to see. Also the house were she lives with the garden was very great. Every little thing was worth to make a foto. I took the posibility to take my fotos:

Villa de nuestra Señora de Santa María Leyva:
Again I saw a new little town in Colombia. Meanwhile I can say that they have all one thing in common: The relaxed way of living. You won´t find a person very stressed or something like that. The difference between these towns and Bogotá, the capitol of Colombia, is very big

In the end I bought a hammock for about 7 EUR in the little town RAQUIRA. Well, I have no idea where I am going to put that, but anyway you have to have something like that when you have been in Colombia. So I took it with, let´s see where I am going to put it ;)

Dominic Krimmer
5. Juli 2006 / Bogota D.C.