–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia has often been associated with treasure: El Dorado, the biggest producer of emeralds on earth, the pirate legends of the Caribbean. However, the true jewels of Colombia are it’s remarkable array of hummingbirds – at almost 150 species, Colombia has the world’s largest hummingbird diversity! Here’s a gallery of […]

graffiti getsemani cartagena

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Getsemaní used to be known for very different things: this burgeoning Cartagena neighborhood of music, street-art, food and tourism was once a no-go area, famous for drugs and crime; far from the cultural epicenter of Cartagena that it now represents. With featured pieces about the area on Forbes and […]

las gachas guadalupe santander

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Last month I wrote a blog post all about the Cano Cristales of Santander (that’s what I christened it anyway!) – this focused on the amazing red rivers flowing around the small town of Guadalupe in Santander department, and their similarity to the iconic Colombian attraction of Cano Cristales…the […]

Humpback Whales Bahia Solano

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I spent 5 days in Colombia’s Chocó department in late August: it was my second visit to this Pacific coast department, and I can say with some certainty that it won’t be the last. The principal reason for my visit to the Chocó was to watch the humpback whales that come […]

Photos of Colombia

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia might not have a Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat or Statue of Liberty (we’ve written about why Colombia needs an icon before), but there are so many Colombian travel sights that are fast becoming must-do’s for the discerning Colombia traveler. We here at the Colombia Travel Blog love to […]

La Victoria Caldas Colombia

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I recently took a last-minute trip to the small town of Victoria in the very south of Caldas department (so far south in fact, that much of the landscape you can see in these photos is actually Tolima), ostensibly in search of birds (the forests above the town are […]

1000 Photos of Colombia

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– The Colombia Travel Blog is 1000 posts old! So we’re celebrating with 1000 pictures of Colombia! From our first ever blog post in 2011, to our landmark 500th post in 2013 (500 Reasons We Love Colombia!), the Colombia Travel Blog has been dispensing advice about travel in Colombia for […]