This week we’re releasing our galleries of pictures of Colombia. Today we’re giving you a sample of Mark Firth’s excellent photos of Colombia. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Firth is an aspiring photographer based in Bogota, Colombia. In 2009 he quit his job, left London and started recording his experiences in Guatemala, Canada, USA and eventually Colombia. […]
Category: Colombia off the beaten path
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– South America contains many archaeological treasures: lost cities hidden deep in the jungle, gigantic figures etched into the desert, a glittering array of gold and silver; but in the fertile green hills of southern Colombia is one which few people outside the country are aware of. San Agustín is a […]
Colombia had around 2 million foreign tourists in 2011, and experts are predicting this year to completely eclipse that already record breaking one: 4 million foreign tourists in 2012! Two of them were my parents…that’s right, my parents in Colombia! Compare that to 1998, when about 70,000 visited this country (definitely not including my parents), and you have some idea of […]
What do you get when you take a country with a selection of natural ingredients among the best in the world and mix it with an increasingly cosmopolitan cultural scene? Why, the exciting and developing world of Bogotá gastronomy. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– If you travel to Bogotá you’ll find a wealth of surprising […]
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it” (Gabriel García Márquez) –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I once met Gabriel García Márquez’s biographer, who assured me (over a questionable plate of unagi) that Colombia’s best-loved writer was, in fact, the world’s best-loved writer. […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia is home to many incredible things: jaw-dropping scenery, gorgeous colonial architecture, some of the world’s best secluded beaches, but perhaps the greatest draw Colombia has is its unique flora and fauna. It is one of the world’s most bio diverse countries. However, it is Colombia’s remarkable birdlife which […]
To round off safety week Colombia Travel Blog is going to be looking at the places which were once no-go zones in Colombia and have opened up to travel. Many areas were once controlled by either guerrillas or paramilitaries, and were impossible for travellers to visit. However in the last 10 years Colombia has seen […]
Safety Week continues at Colombia Travel Blog! Today we are going to be answering some ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ about safe travel in Colombia. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– 1. Is it safe to travel to Colombia? Yes! In the past 10 years Colombian security has increased to the point the where more and more tourists are visiting […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia is a country of wildlife. Ecologically, it is considered one of the world’s most megadiverse countries, and is the most megadiverse per square kilometre on the planet. It is likely that within the next two years Colombia will become the first country on earth to register 1,900 species […]
With the mention of Colombia, most people will conjure images of colonial gems like Cartagena, bustling metropolises such as Bogotá or idyllic beaches like the ones you’ll find in Tayrona National Park. Few will imagine the snow-capped peaks in El Cocuy we wrote about yesterday, or the incredible Mars-like lanscapes that stretch over the desert of […]