Category: Cocora Valley

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader of the Colombia Travel Blog, we were recently chosen as one of the official bloggers for Colombia. Our first piece has been published and we’d very much like it if you went ahead and checked it out. It’s called: 5 Reasons […]

Dance Salsa For us rigidly-hipped, socially awkward Brits just a passing brush of the shoulder can be awkward, nevermind full on, face-to-face body contact with someone of the opposite sex! But, such is the life in South America and you better get used to it. No experience in Colombia is complete without dancing just a […]

In the run-up to Christmas I’m learning a great deal about Colombian culture. Of course, at a time like this you see a great deal of things that seperate your own culture from another. Christmas traditions in Colombia range from the inspiring to the bizarre, and it’ll be interesting for me as I return back […]

So what will 2012 bring? European economic collapse? A new US President? The end of the world? Who knows, but one thing is for sure: 2012 SHOULD bring to you a trip to Colombia (before the world ends, of course). –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– There’s never been a better time to come to this […]

So with President Santos’ visit to the UK the British media has been featuring a lot about Colombia, and more specifically about the so-called ‘Civets’, a group of countries including Colombia that are being talked about as the next emerging markets. But if you’re looking for a more casual read about Colombia, that kind of […]

As you’ll see in this post, sometimes people have trouble distinguishing what makes someone, or something (for example, a cat) Colombian. Well, we put the question to you guys to find out if there are any ways (besides a passport check) to tell if you are Colombian. Take heed. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– This […]

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– We at Colombia Travel Blog and our big brother site See Colombia Travel are always dedicated to bringing you as much information about Colombia as we can. That’s exactly why we’ve teamed up with Off2Colombia – in order to bring you videos, photos, articles and much more that relates […]

We wrote about Cocora Valley this week at the Colombia Travel Blog, and Salento got a brief mention. We decided, though, that this was to do it an injustice and so today’s post is dedicated to Salento, a charming colonial village in the Colombia Coffee Triangle. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Salento is the centre […]

Hello all! Here at the Colombia Travel Blog we have written about Cocora Valley a few times in the past but today, given that a picture speaks a thousand words, we thought we might actually show you some footage of the area, all thanks to our friends over at Off2 Colombia. Take a look: –> […]

Colombia’s Coffee Triangle is one of the few places on earth with its own official microclimate. You might guess that this makes it an incredibly interesting, varied place to visit, but this extends not only to wildlife and flora. The Coffee Triangle is full of exciting cities such as Manizalez, charming colonial towns such as […]