Well, after realising that I’ve indulged in a couple of rants this week, and that it is Friday… Friday, perhaps what I really need is a nice little weekend away. Luckily enough, Colombia, as always, has the goods in this department. Here are our tips on how to get out of the big smoke of […]
Category: Colombia Travel
As someone who despises the idea of camping (this all stems from a slightly traumatic experience I had in Chile once, but which is far too long and emotional to go into right now), I was less than pleased when some of my friends suggested we go to Neusa to camp. By a lake. In […]
Alright, I have a backpack. I may have hiked on one or two trails in my time. I may even have stayed in a backpacker’s hostel on one or two occasions. That doesn’t make me part of that excitable, peculiar tribe known as Backpackers, though. No, sir. I’m as much a backpacker as I am […]
Not too long ago I decided to test my fear of enclosed spaced by visiting La Catedral de Sal in Zipaquirá which is a salt mine turned cathedral. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– It is about an hour from Bogotá and is 200 metres underground. Just hearing that, as we walked into the cavernous tunnel […]
Walk into any Colombian bar, house, club or even little shop on the street corner and you will be sure to find a bunch of merry Colombians chuckling away as they down shot after shot of aguardiente. For this is the country’s national spirit, which transcends social, racial, cultural and professional boundaries. It can be […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Well, I don’t know if you’re aware or not, but there’s a little thing called the Barranquilla Carnival starting this weekend. If you don’t know, now you know, blogger. So, in celebration of this massive excuse for Barranquilla (and the rest of the country lucky enough to make it) […]
We decided we needed something epic to celebrate our 500th post on this blog, and what could be more epic than a list of 500 reasons we love Colombia? –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia is a country that has given us all so much, and we’re grateful to be able to give something back […]
Today marks my 2nd year living here in Bogotá. It’s been a pretty momentous couple of years ever since I landed, and it’s hard to commemorate in words. Instead, to mark to occassion, I leave you with a Colombia photo gallery from some of my travels around the country. Enjoy. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– […]
Puedes leer la version en Castellano de este post aqui: 5 cosas que nso parecen raras de Colombia –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– As you have probably guessed from the picture above, and of course from reading our posts EVERY DAY, the See Colombia Travel team are a good looking bunch of expats (if we […]
Guest Post: We’d like to introduce you to Matthias Scherer, a Colombian-born who has been living in Germany and the UK since he was just a kid. But now he’s back and living in Colombia to see if he feels at home in the land of his birth. Six months later and so far so […]