You can also find out about Colombia’s Top 5 spooky myths and legends right here… –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia is a country with a rich and fascinating cultural history. Anyone who travels to Colombia will find that out for themselves, but on this special day we want to share with you a different side of Colombian culture; […]
Category: Colombian Culture
Pereira is one of the three cities that make up Colombia’s Coffee Triangle. Like neighbouring cities Armenia and Manizales, Pereira is surrounded by stunning, varied scenery and boasts incredible natural resources. The city is surrounded by the Otun an Consota Rivers and looming over the horizon are the snow-capped peaks of Los Nevados National Natural Park. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– […]
Si pasas toda la semana esperando el viernes para poder disfrutar de un buen fin de semana quizá necesitas una escape para salir de la rutina. Por suerte Colombia siempre tiene lugares que ofrecerte. Aquí puedes encontrar nuestros consejos de cómo salir de la contaminación de las tres ciudades más grandes del país, relajarse y […]
Original post in English here –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Por supuesto cuando te mudas a otro país esperas encontrar muchas diferencias culturales. Para comenzar el idioma y aun, la forma en que se saludan o despiden, así mismo como interactúan con la familia y la comida, puede tomarte un tiempo para acostumbrarse. Sin embargo […]
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. […]
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 […]
–> 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 […]
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 […]