The boat was supposed to take about nine hours but I'm pretty sure that when I got to the Santa Maria border to get my exit stamp it had only been about six or seven hours. Once I got my stamp, I had to go to the dock, get another boat to Leticia, I thought that my ticket covered me to Leticia but when I arrived there apparently not. I had to pay some money for it, luckily I had $50 Soles so I could pay, otherwise I had no money at all. The border at Leticia is pretty cool, it is a three way border all with different rivers branching off the Amazon, you have the borders between, Colombia, Brazil and Peru. I was given my change in Colombian Pesos which helped me out quite a bit as I could now afford the extortionately priced taxis to the airport and then back again to the cheapest hostel in town. I had to go to the airport apparently to get my entrance stamp and visa into Colombia. I went to the airport, had to have my bags scanned on entry to the actual terminal building itself, very strange but it meant that everybody passing through the doors would have to experience a slight inconvenience. There was a tiny room at the airport where I was supposed to go and get my stamp, then I was free to leave. My taxi driver from the port had decided he would stay at the airport and wait, no matter how long it took. I ended up waiting an hour just to get a stamp saying I was in the country. When I was finally done, I got back in the taxi and asked the driver to take me to the cheapest place in town, it was still pretty pricey at $20,000 Colombian pesos. The place wasn't a hotel or hostel, it was a residencia, it was pretty dirty and basic but it would do, it was the cheapest after all, plus there was a fan that actually got my whole body, not just my feet. I went out, got some food, some local Colombian beer, pretty crap really, weak and with no flavour whatsoever. Checked my emails then went to bed, I was off to Bogota at 14.00.