For the last year, in Colombia, many of my conversations with fellow Brits or people from the States have, at some point, turned to what people’s expectations were or what their friends and family think of their trip to Colombia. Having returned for the UK for Christmas, I’ve dealt with this once again, but first-hand. […]
Category: Colombia Travel
S’il est vrai que la Colombie est le premier producteur de coca au monde, l’image véhiculée sur ce pays est souvent désuète et excessivement négative. Cette production n’est plus aux mains des cartels de la drogue, organisations mafieuses des années 1980, qui contrôlaient alors l’ensemble du marché, et dont le plus fameux représentant, Pablo Escobar, […]
I remember travelling to Sri Lanka some years ago and being told that no matter how poor people were, going hungry was very rare as the abundance of fruit the country had to offer ensured there was always something to eat. Now I’m not sure if that’s the same here in Colombia, but certainly there’s an […]
Chocó is one of Colombia’s most troubled regions. For decades, it has been enveloped in war, corruption and violence. Isolated from the rest of Colombia by thick, dense jungle and politically estranged thanks to Colombia’s armed conflict and high levels of corruption, it has long been cast off as an unsalvageable wasteland. –> Colombia Dolar […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– “The town that Time forgot” is a phrase that literally gets bandied about a bit in the travel-writing industry, kind of like the word, “literally.” It`s particularly difficult to avoid here in Colombia, where Old Father Time seems to have a serious case of Alzheimer`s. There are four of […]
There are very few sports in the world where drinking is positively encouraged as you play. Darts is one; it’s hard to imagine playing darts without a pint sat on a table nearby, waiting for you. Colombia, too, has its very own sport that is synonymous with getting intoxicated. In fact, often, it’s a sport that’s […]
Colombia’s Pacific region of Chocó is perhaps most closely linked in people’s minds to Colombia’s armed conflict and is almost synonymous with the outsider, media-inspired image of Colombia as a vast, lawless jungle, home to drug dealers, freedom fighters and soldiers. However, Quibdo’s San Pacho Festival, named on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, is a […]
Para el post original en ingles haz click aquí. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Si eres un lector frecuente de Colombia Travel blog, sabrás que Colombia es un país lleno de sorpresas, lleno de lo raro, lo maravilloso, de gran belleza y a veces completamente extraño. Una de las sorpresas más grandes para la mayoría […]
Vendredi 27 septembre, le célèbre magazine de la découverte et de l’évasion, Faut Pas Rêver, a décidé de s’attaquer à la Colombie pour faire tomber les clichés négatifs qui planent. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– J’ai vraiment apprécié ce programme. On ne trouve que trop peu d’émissions parlant positivement de la Colombie sur les chaînes […]
Last week I published a post on Colombian foods I’ve tried not to hate, in which I mentioned that I don’t like Lulo. This in itself was met with a strong reaction by Colombia’s fruit lovers, but perhaps more shocking was the revelation that I had once paid $80.000 pesos for a jug of lulada […]