Hours and hours and hours: a trip to El Cocuy National park in the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes takes forever. And forever feels even longer if the road is a mere obstacles course with one hole leading to another, trucks and busses driving in slow motion and even road blocks you will not notice until you are right in front of them. However: the reason far more important is that once you are there you do not want to leave again. There is just too much see, too many hikes to take, to many summits to conquer. …