San Gil is a bit more than then 60 kilometres to the south from Bucaramanga, the capital City, as the crow flies or on a straight path.
The bus to Bogotá makes that journey of amazing Santanderian landscapes in a little more than a couple of hours of abrupt and tight curves, as it skirts the Chicamocha Canyon, till if finally arrives to San Gil as a stop-over.
Life in the valley Chicamocha Canyon, Santander, Colombia
If on that particular weekend, it was her turn to spend it at her paternal grandparents’, then she took an additional small bus for an hour’s ride to the close by coffee plantation where they lived.