Category: Colombian Culture

A country of baffling diversity, Colombia offers endless options to the intrepid traveller. Deserts, mountains, Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, verdant flatlands… If you’re searching for it, chances are you can find it in Colombia. For this reason Colombia is becoming more and more popular with all kinds of tourists – including couples getting married in […]

Last week on the Colombia Travel Blog we announced our collaboration with Off2Colombia, and our intention to share content in order to promote Colombia. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Today we bring you our first instalment of one of our favourite features on the Off2 site – the videos. This particular one, their newest, is all […]

Barranquilla is a port at the North Coast of Colombia, a city with a little more than a million people and fourth in size after Bogota, Medellin, and Cali. For many years, especially during the 18th Century,  Barranquilla was a very important trading port and therefore, as most big harbors around the world, lots of […]

I read this article (Spanish) in El Espectador recently. While you can’t argue with the findings, it does seem strangely out of place. Colombia is a country that is making leaps and bounds into a brighter future. No-one here would go as far to claim that Colombia has put all its troubles in the past, but the […]

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– We at Colombia Travel Blog and our big brother site See Colombia Travel are always dedicated to bringing you as much information about Colombia as we can. That’s exactly why we’ve teamed up with Off2Colombia – in order to bring you videos, photos, articles and much more that relates […]

Medellín is one of the most up and coming cities in the world, and is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the most desirable places to live. Not only is it one of the fashion capitals of Latin America, one of the most progressive cities in the continent and home of some of Colombia’s […]

Marcela may not be any fit state to ‘rumbear’ (party) at the moment since she’s expecting a baby quite soon, but once upon a time she was relied upon as a dependable source of information for where to go in Bogotá. Of course, these days I’ve taken it upon myself to work hard and try […]

Enjoy your weekend  with some Coilombian music, world. We at the Colombia Travel Blog will surely do so with Chocquibtown!!! –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <–   CHOCQUIBTOWN-DE DONDE VENGO YO ( Where I come from)  

We wrote about Cocora Valley this week at the Colombia Travel Blog, and Salento got a brief mention. We decided, though, that this was to do it an injustice and so today’s post is dedicated to Salento, a charming colonial village in the Colombia Coffee Triangle. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Salento is the centre […]

September 29th is National Coffee Day in the United States and, since we’re here in Colombia, we figured what better day to talk about coffee. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Supposedly the best of Colombia’s coffee is exported to the US and Europe and this may well be true, but don’t let that kid you […]