So it’s Monday morning. Everyone hates Mondays right? Especially after the inevitable lazy Sunday spent trying to watch online movies through one bloodshot eye, drinking copious amounts of water in a fruitless attempt to shake off that killer guaro hangover… –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– No chance! Bogotá is not a city that lends itself to […]
Category: Colombian Culture
It’s finally Friday, and to celebrate we’re bringing you another new gallery of pictures of Colombia. So here’s Day 7 and Off 2 Colombia’s fantastic photos of Colombia. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Off 2 Colombia was founded by Josian Chevallier and Mickael Teo, two French guys who left their successful careers in London to take a chance on […]
All last week we were releasing our new galleries of pictures of Colombia. Continuing on from there on Day 6, take a look at William Jarrell’s wonderful photos of Colombia. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– William is an amateur photographer currently living in Maryland, U.S.A. He studied History of Art, Architecture and Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and […]
All this week we are releasing our new galleries of pictures of Colombia. So, on day 3, here are some of Harald Scafer’s amazing photos of Colombia. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Harald was born in Germany in 1983. It didn’t take him long to realize that, despite his love for his home and family, there was […]
This week we’re releasing our galleries of pictures of Colombia. Today we’re giving you a sample of Mark Firth’s excellent photos of Colombia. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Firth is an aspiring photographer based in Bogota, Colombia. In 2009 he quit his job, left London and started recording his experiences in Guatemala, Canada, USA and eventually Colombia. […]
Thank God it’s Friday! And to celebrate (and really slow us down before we play football this afternoon), Paul and I have decided to introduce to you some of the weird and wonderful ‘delicacies’ which Colombians keep telling us we must try. However, we’re honest guys, so instead of just writing a casual introduction to […]
Are you missing Colombia? Perhaps you travelled here a couple of months ago and are still feeling the withdrawal symptoms; maybe, like some of us here at Colombia Travel Blog, you lived for a while in this country and have headed home; or maybe you are Colombian and have relocated abroad. Well, never fear, because […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– South America contains many archaeological treasures: lost cities hidden deep in the jungle, gigantic figures etched into the desert, a glittering array of gold and silver; but in the fertile green hills of southern Colombia is one which few people outside the country are aware of. San Agustín is a […]
Colombia had around 2 million foreign tourists in 2011, and experts are predicting this year to completely eclipse that already record breaking one: 4 million foreign tourists in 2012! Two of them were my parents…that’s right, my parents in Colombia! Compare that to 1998, when about 70,000 visited this country (definitely not including my parents), and you have some idea of […]
What do you get when you take a country with a selection of natural ingredients among the best in the world and mix it with an increasingly cosmopolitan cultural scene? Why, the exciting and developing world of Bogotá gastronomy. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– If you travel to Bogotá you’ll find a wealth of surprising […]