Popayan Colombia

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Popayan is well-known in Colombia for it’s gorgeous colonial architecture, UNESCO-recognized gastronomic culture, and it’s famous Easter celebrations. The capital of Cauca department is a small city, with less than 300,000 residents, but what it lacks in size it  more than makes up for in charm and beauty. So […]

Flamingos La Guajira Colombia

We’ve written before about the many surreal locations that you can visit on a trip to Colombia: eerie prison islands battered by the waves of the Pacific, lost colonial gems on the Magdalena River, rivers running red through the jungle…and a bunch of bright pink cartoonish birds living in a wondrous coastal desert by the […]

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Valledupar, the capital city of Cesar department in the north of Colombia, is a small city in a gorgeous and privileged location sandwiched between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serrania de Perija mountains. It is famous for vallenato music, the insistent, accordion-led songs which you will undoubtedly hear […]

El Penol Rock

See Colombia (y nuestra chivita viajera) estuvimos disfrutando recientemente del soleado campo Antioqueño, más específicamente en Guatapé, por motivo del XIII Encuentro Nacional de Caminantes. Sin embargo, hubo suficiente tiempo para apreciar los puntos turísticos del área: la piedra del Peñol, el pueblito y el embalse de Guatapé. Tuvimos un tiempo espectacular y pronto vamos […]