It’s been a fantastic year for See Colombia Travel; more people than ever have visited our blog, interacted with our posts, and shared our work across the internet. We are always grateful to everyone who follows us and makes this blog possible. So here, collected together, are the 10 most popular blog posts we wrote this year…(in no particular order; we love all our posts equally):
1. Top 10 Colombia Travel Destinations for 2014
We might as well start at the beginning: this January post laid out the best spots to visit in Colombia in the upcoming year, including Cano Cristales, Minca, El Cocuy and Las Lajas. As a travel blog, it’s pretty good to have this post in the Top 10 for the year really…
2. Top 5 Indie Coffee Shops in Bogota
In which our intern Tracey drank a lot of excellent coffee from a variety of independent, quirky establishments in Bogota, and then wrote a concise blog detailing the best ones. Simple yet effective…and very popular.
3. 5 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Coming to Colombia
Tracey didn’t just drink great coffee this year, she also actually moved to Colombia! And there were several things she was definitely unprepared for. This post described those things she wished she had known before moving here.
4. 5 Things I wasn’t expecting to find in Colombia
Our former intern Jess had a similar experience in 2014; moving to Colombia for the first time and being faced with some surprises – involving cheese, the weather, and guinea pigs…These were her 5 most unexpected delights.
5. 16 Reasons to Cheer Colombia in Brazil 2014
We basically nailed this list (if I do say so myself) – Entertainment, Faryd Mondragon’s record, dark horses, James, Yepes, Quintero and Cuadrado…what a tournament Colombia had, and this post put forward the arguments for cheering on Los Cafeteros.
6. James Rodriguez: A New Colombian Hero
Ah, James, you had quite a year! World Cup Golden Boot, goal of the tournament, massive move to Real Madrid; if it wasn’t for that 2000 COP note I found behind the couch the other day I’d have said you’d beaten me! This post gave the reasons for Colombia’s ongoing obsession with the boy wonder…
7. Why I’m Excited to be back in Colombia
In which I gave my reasons for being so amazingly excited to be moving back to Colombia in February: music, travel, the World Cup; there were myriad reasons for my excitement, and it was great that our readers shared it with me!
8. Gay Colombia – Where to Go
This post by Gilesy, way back in January, has been a massive success on the blog. A succinct analysis the the top gay spots in Bogota and beyond, this post in consistently popular with our readers.
9. 2 Week Colombian Itinerary: Caribbean Coast
This post gave some ideas for a 2 week holiday itinerary; we did a few like this one, but it was the Caribbean edition that attracted most attention, with many readers logging on to find out the best way to see the Colombian Caribbean with limited time…
10. Top 5 Surreal Places in Colombia
The final entry in the Top 10 is an April post in which we demonstrated that not only is Colombia an amazing place to visit, it’s also a bizarre, surreal country, with all sorts of weird and wonderful places to visit: red rivers, flamingo filled deserts, crumbling river towns…they’re all here!
So there you have it: our Top 10 most popular posts of 2014. Thank you to everyone who joined us in our dream of showing the world the beauty of Colombia this year…roll on 2015!
Chris
