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Thanks a lot for your answers!

We´ve spent a few ours over the map (and drank a bit more then a few s, while doing this).
Took us some time to find most of the closed roads (special thanx to Mike for the great overview (email one!).

Is there ANY non blocked paved road between Bogota and Medellin left?

Is this unusual heavy rain, you experience right now?
Looks like it rains for weeks now.
If this goes on, it seems to be unimportant, if we have all the good motorcycle routes on our list. Seems to be likely, that sooner or later we just want to get out of this ****ing rain! Right or wrong?
Any hope for the rain to stop or at least to become bearable?

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up to date overview of blocked roads

Hi guys,

here´s a link to a up to date overview of blocked roads:

http://www.policia.gov.co/portal/pag...0DE%20VIAS.pdf

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Here are some photos from a normal day between Manizales and Murillo:






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Is there ANY non blocked paved road between Bogota and Medellin left?

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Last I checked for an all pavement route, Bogota-Ibague-Armenia-Medellin. Of course I havent called the number in a few days so that route could be closed as well. Call #767. Tell them your point of departure and destination and they will give you a route.

Hi Mike, actually the road in your pics, from the park to Murillo was in decent shape, even with all the rain, just a little mud and clay. The fun route with mud, rocks and water was from Manizales to near the park entrance. Its a great dirt route that totally bypasses the pavement. The pavement route was closed anyway, thats how I wound up on the muddy route. The guys at the park entrance were very surprised to see me as they had not had any visitors in days because of all the landslides.

OK, here are the details with the cops in Murillo. I pulled into Murillo after dark. The cops i talked to were very surprised to see me and told me not to continue because of problems with Guerrilla at night. Then they told me not to stay too long in Murillo, also because of Guerrilla. They advised me to leave early the next morning. Like I said, I dont know what the real threat was, because I didnt have any issues at all and the police were my only source of information. Just relaying what the cops told me along the way.
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Meanwhile we made it with some detours and patience through Venezuelas mountains and to Bogota.

Here are two good online-pages, where you can check for blocked roads in Columbia:

Portal INVÍAS - Colombia
klick on "viajero seguro" on the left and then you can choose in the new window down right your start- and destination city.
You get back a map with red-flags.

This one is a table, you can download:
Policía Nacional de Colombia.

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