S’il est vrai que la Colombie est le premier producteur de coca au monde, l’image véhiculée sur ce pays est souvent désuète et excessivement négative. Cette production n’est plus aux mains des cartels de la drogue, organisations mafieuses des années 1980, qui contrôlaient alors l’ensemble du marché, et dont le plus fameux représentant, Pablo Escobar, […]
Year: 2013
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– You may imagine that a Colombian kitchen is pretty much like most other kinds of kitchens, but you`d be wrong. Terribly, terrifyingly wrong. They may look the same, but just like everything else in life – whether it be trapdoors or Kinder Surprises – it`s what`s inside that counts. It`s the […]
Eran probablemente mediados de los años noventa cuando de visita en Valparaíso un amigo murciano de mi padre afincado ahí hace mucho tiempo me dijo que Chile tenía los mejores ingredientes del mundo, pero los cocineros… no tanto. Aunque era por supuesto una exageración, se refería a que en gastronomía recién se estaba empezando a […]
Daniel Tirado es un muy buen amigo con quien estuvimos compartiendo la semana pasada una de sus rutas preferidas de trekking en los alrededores de Medellín, es además de eso un verdadero aventurero, un viajero empedernido, el youtuber de viajes más visitado de Colombia y un colega con el que tenemos el súper gusto de […]
Today we are honoured to have a special post by our friend, Dani Meroño, El Cocinero Viajero (The Traveling Chef) , who is contributing to the See Colombia blog with his fantastic and insightful understanding of Colombian gastronomy. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– La version en espanol de este post aqui: Comida de Santander ———————————————————————————————————————————— […]
Hoy tenemos el honor de contar con la colaboración de nuestro amigo Dani Meroño , El Cocinero Viajero quien estará contribuyendo con el blog de See Colombia con sus fantásticos conocimientos sobre gastronomía colombiana. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– For an english version of this post click here: Santander Gastronomy ———————————————————————————————————————————— Los habitantes del departamento de Santander son gente aguerrida que durante […]
I remember travelling to Sri Lanka some years ago and being told that no matter how poor people were, going hungry was very rare as the abundance of fruit the country had to offer ensured there was always something to eat. Now I’m not sure if that’s the same here in Colombia, but certainly there’s an […]
Chocó is one of Colombia’s most troubled regions. For decades, it has been enveloped in war, corruption and violence. Isolated from the rest of Colombia by thick, dense jungle and politically estranged thanks to Colombia’s armed conflict and high levels of corruption, it has long been cast off as an unsalvageable wasteland. –> Colombia Dolar […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– “The town that Time forgot” is a phrase that literally gets bandied about a bit in the travel-writing industry, kind of like the word, “literally.” It`s particularly difficult to avoid here in Colombia, where Old Father Time seems to have a serious case of Alzheimer`s. There are four of […]
There are very few sports in the world where drinking is positively encouraged as you play. Darts is one; it’s hard to imagine playing darts without a pint sat on a table nearby, waiting for you. Colombia, too, has its very own sport that is synonymous with getting intoxicated. In fact, often, it’s a sport that’s […]