Now Official Colombia Travel Bloggers 
Welcome! Our collaborative Colombia Travel blog was created with the objective of giving different perspectives about traveling and living in Colombia as well as helping improve the very commonly distorted perception about this amazingly friendly land. All posts are written by people from different parts of the world that have chosen to live in this astonishing country and that want to tell the world what are they missing by not being here!
See Colombia Travel’s Ryan from the UK, Paul ( another Brit), Andrew from South Africa and JL, a self proclaimed citizen of the world join forces with Colombia travel blog‘s star Marcela to give you (almost) daily inside information from different destinations in Colombia.
In February 2012 we were officially chosen to be Official Colombia Travel Bloggers by Proexport, the governmental Colombian entity in charge of Colombia’s image abroad.
See Colombia Travel started in the early 2000s, before the Colombian Travel boom that we´re seeing today. Since then we have been carefully planning a business that matches Colombian travel services with international standards. Our planning has finally paid off and we are now ready to share our passion for traveling and sustainable tourism with you, helping you discover Colombia as the new destination in South America. This is were we, an international team of Colombia lovers write about our experiences in this surprising country!
If you want to contact us privately send us a message to info@seecolombia.travel
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20 Comments on “About our Colombia Travel Blog”
Mike Hower says:
Hi,
Saw your blog and I couldn’t agree more about the importance about changing people’s perceptions about Colombia. Colombia is definitely not Disneyland, but it is also not the war-ravaged third world country a lot of people think of it as. I am an American living in southern Bogota teaching English in one of Bogota’s poorest neighborhoods and I have seen the insane poverty first-hand, but the more international investment (especially tourism), Colombia receives, the better off the poor will be (if the corruption can be rooted out in the government, that is).
Anyway, I invite you to check out my blog, which chronicles my time living and teaching in Bogota.
You can view it at http://www.thetallgringo.blogspot.com
Mike
Posted on -Marcela says:
Hi Mike, great to hear from you. You’re right about perceptions, I think slowly but surely things are changing and with people like you spreading the good word about the country I’m sure we’ll eventually manage to make a difference!
Obviously we hope tourism can make a massive difference to the country, and it really is a great time for people to come to Colombia. It still feels new and undiscovered, but owing to the healthy local tourism scene there’s actually a pretty good infrastructure just waiting for people. I’ll be sure to check out your web page and be in touch. Well done for your teaching job, too, it’s a great profession.
Ryan
Posted on -JavierD says:
Hi!
This blog is great! Im colombian and my girlfriend is from Finland. Im very glad about showing the best things about our country because I know it is a very good country eventhough the problems of the “system”, but with my girlfriend we have been experiencing the best things of Colombia like people, culture and food. She likes a lot this country and I would really love that the “bad image” of Colombia decrease more and more. I know this “bad image” give us more tramits to get a simple visa to travel, or in the international airports longer time waiting for extra security checkings, for example.
My girlfriend has done one blog about Colombia in finnish language to show more about this positive country to the finnish people who dont know so much in general about South America, and well, I’ve been so happy with her idea and I support her goal of giving to the World the real image that Colombia deserves: A Warm country with wonderful people.
Thanks for this space contributing to show the real situation in Colombia and I invite you to visit our blog (in finnish but with many pics and advices in some places in Colombia) .. http://paula.suntuubi.com
Gracias!
Javier Dario
Posted on -Paul says:
Hey thanks Javier, glad to hear you like the blog. Great to hear your girlfriend is trying to spread the word in her native Finland too! I don’t think it’ll be too long until the reputation changes, progress in Colombia has been rapid and I expect it to continue this way. It’s thanks to people like you and your girlfriend we can really be optimistic about Colombia’s future.
Oh, and the blog looks great even if I don’t understand a word!
Saludos,
Paul
Posted on -JL says:
Hi Javier,
Many thanks for your message , we would love to know if your girlfriend would like to write a guest post for our blog , or maybe translate one of her favorites? We feel very encouraged when we read or listen to stories like yours and we’ll be really happy if you let us share your point of view with the world through our blog. Please let us know if this is possible.
Un abrazo Grande
JL
Posted on -JavierD says:
Hey JL … First of all.. I’m so sorry about no answering before! I hadn’t realized about your last message but with my girlfriend we knew about your message in her blog. She’s very interested to talk more about Colombia and at the moment she is writting something for your blog and some parts in english language in her blog too… There will be a very nice comment (to share with you specially) talking about our experiences in Colombia …
We will let you know!
Un Abrazo!
ps. Congratulations to you and Marcela for your engagement!!! Bien hecho!!
Posted on -Marc says:
Me gusta mucho tu Blog y amo Colombia! Muchos saludos de “Kolumbienreport”
Posted on -Paul says:
Muchas gracias Marc! Ya te estamos siguiendo en Twitter tambien
Un Abrazo
Paul
Posted on -Paul says:
Gracias Marc. Colombia: con nosotros siempre!
Posted on -Paula says:
Hello JL and everybody. I love your blog too! I just wanted to tell to you all that I have also blog connnected with Colombia. My blog is originally in finnish but I have been asked to write also in english so now I have published my first comments to my page in english. Thank you very much for your comments to my blog. Keep in touch!
Greetings from Finland!
Paula
Posted on -Paula says:
Hello all! I realized that I didn’t put the address of my blog to my last comment in here so here it is. Please write your opinion to my guestbook if you want. I have published new english web sites. Here is the link:
http://kolumbia.nettisivu.org (in english)
http://paula.suntuubi.com (in finnish, but with more text and videos)
I really want to share my experiences with all the people in the world who are thinking about new travel destinations. Colombia has had bad image long time and I want to change that. Life was bad 10 years ago, not anymore! Colombian people are lovely and happy. Cities are doing many new constructions to make the services more smoothly and they make modern buildings etc. There are so many things to do and see in Colombia.
Thank You for your blog! It is wonderful to read about new good experiences.
Cheers
Paula
Posted on -Paul says:
Thanks Paula, we agree completely and share your vision! I’m glad you’re enjoying Colombia so much, it’s really quite hard to find people who don’t love it when they come…
Paul
Posted on -Miguel Benavides says:
Hola Marcela,
I have been looking at your blog and I really like your postings.
I apologize for contacting you through the “comment” section of your site, but I did not find any other way to reach you privately, so you don’t need to post this comment.
I work with Hola Spanish Centre, a language school based in Vancouver, Canada. We have been operating for the last 10 years and currently have 5 locations in British Columbia. Our school’s site receives a large amount of hits daily and rates amongst the top in Google search queries.
We are currently developing our own blog and are looking for blog contributors in order to have a variety of content. After looking at your Colombian Travel Blog, we would like you to consider participating on our blog by sharing some of your postings.
If you are interested in this proposal, please reply to me to the supplied email address so we can further discuss the details involved.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Regards
Posted on -Miguel
Monika says:
Hi there Team Colombia Travel Blog,
Love the blog. I’m writing a travel story on Bogota for newspaper in New York City and would love to chat with one of you. Thanks so much!
All the best,
Posted on -Monika
Monika says:
Please contact me via my email. Thanks again!
Posted on -Paul says:
Done and done, thanks Monika.
Paul
Posted on -Maria Margarita says:
Hola todos!
Posted on -Millones de gracias por tan lindas y constructivas palabras sobre tan sufrido Colombia. (Thank-you all for the lovely words and hope about that beautiful country) Va para los que hablen cualquiera de los idiamas” Soy colombiana pero no conosi’ medellin.
I been livin in England for 30 years, but I am planning to stay some time in Medellin – As I am fed up with this britrish weather….. Thinking in renting for a few months and see how I fell. I wonder if any one can advice me of a small house to rent, in Montenegro area of Medellin, or a safe residencial area wherever. Gracias y feliz dia.
Paul says:
Hey, great to hear you’re coming home!
It’s easy to get fed up with British weather (I should know, I’m from London), and Medellín will be the perfect antidote. I don’t know much about renting as I live in Bogotá, but check out http://www.medellinliving.com, they’ll surely be able to help!
Paul
Posted on -Maricela says:
Excellent blog, very informative and true to Colombia.
Posted on -manuel jose de bedout says:
Veo con mucha felicidad que estamos entrando en la onda de promocionarnos a nivel internacional con un blog de altura ; que presenta la bella Colombia al viajero inernacional que quiere llegar al continente Suramericano y dar inicio a la expedicion precolombina puramente regional que le invitara a descubrir lo que era esta continente antes de la llegada de los europeos a colonizarla el continente que tiene todo lo necesdario pasra presentarle al viajero un paseo de maravilla.
Posted on -Nosotros trabajamos con el turismo rural o regional en las areas de la periferia de las grandes ciudades; somos operadores fluviales y le presentamos al viajero la colombia de antaño ; desde el cauce del segundo rio en importancia de Colombia y en una embarcacion especialmente diseñada y construida para hacer de este paseo algo verdaderamente fenomenal.
Nos gustaria invitarlos y estar en su blog
cordial saludo;
MANUEL JOSE DE BEDOUT GOMEZ
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BARCO DE TURISMO PIONERO-NAVEGAMOS POR EL RIO CAUCA.