Category: Colombia Travel Blog

Today is Paul’s Birthday and the whole See Colombia Travel Blog team wants to send him a huge abrazo! –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– More than a year ago Paul came to Colombia to join the team , everybody in England advised against it , but Paul was determined to come and see for himself […]

I know what you guys are thinking and yes, it is my birthday weekend. No, that doesn’t mean I’m having the biggest party in Colombia this weekend. Fact is, this weekend I have to take second place to a little thing called ‘Carnival de Barranquilla’. Shucks. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Due to its amazing […]

As anyone learning Spanish will know, it’s a language that changes a great deal in tone, style and even lexicon from country to country. Don’t be surprised, for example, to find yourself uncapable of understanding Argentinian Spanish if you learnt the bulk of what you know in Spain. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– We already […]

For the traveller, life is much harder than those back at home seem to think. Sure, it looks like we’re relaxing in Tayrona National Park without a care in the world but actually we’re planning our trip, budgeting, doing administration work and implementing time management skills. If anything, we should be getting paid while we […]

Hello and Happy Valentines Day from Colombia to everybody! –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Yesterday we told you about the many international  Colombia love stories going on here at the See Colombia office. Today we want to share something very special too. Below you’ll find  the video of my surprise proposal to Marcela.  Marcela and […]

So Valentine’s Day is almost here and, love it or hate it, it’s pretty much unavoidable. Not ones to shy away from big, commercial holidays – and although Colombia’s version of Valentine’s day “El dia del amor y la amistad” is months away-  we decided to embrace the thing full-on and bring you some very […]

You know, every day at the Colombia Travel Blog we have someone ask us: ‘What song should I play on Valentines Day (or El Dia del Amor y La Amistad) when I’m trying to woo a Colombian?’ (full disclosure: no-one has ever asked that). Well, we send them a song or two and undoubtedly, with […]

Dance Salsa For us rigidly-hipped, socially awkward Brits just a passing brush of the shoulder can be awkward, nevermind full on, face-to-face body contact with someone of the opposite sex! But, such is the life in South America and you better get used to it. No experience in Colombia is complete without dancing just a […]

So we’ve heard what people from all around the world have said about why you should come to Colombia, and we at the Colombia Travel Blog have made our feelings pretty clear, too. We’re also part of a group of Official Travel Bloggers in Colombia that includes over 30 expats from all over the world […]

For us it started as a pretty humble project by Marcela. Her idea, having worked in tourism throughout South America, was to begin a blog about her own country. A country with little coverage, and one that the company she worked for wouldn’t even touch. She found what people thought about her country was very […]