A homestay is an increasingly popular way for travellers to get a truly local and authentic experience during their travels – basically it involves staying at someone’s house rather than in a hotel or hostel. There are good and bad homestays (some just feel awkward: as if, understandably, your money is more welcome than […]
Tag: Accommodation in Colombia
Da clic aquí para ver el vídeo completo de mi visita a Barranquilla con Dani y Toya de Colombia de Una. La Arenosa, Curramba La Bella, La Ciudad De Los Hitos, La Puerta de Oro de Colombia, como también se le conoce a Barranquilla, está estratégicamente ubicada en la costa caribe de Colombia. Y es gracias […]
El día de San Valentín es un “festivo” extraño en Colombia… sobre todo porque técnicamente no es un día festivo aquí. Colombia celebra su propia versión del día “romántico” con “El día del amor y la amistad” cada mes de septiembre, el tercer sábado del mes. Para ser honesto, prefiero la versión colombiana, el […]
Santander has long been one of my favourite Colombian departments – there’s a lot on offer for tourists and travellers there: extreme sports in San Gil, Colombia’s largest and most spectacular canyon, the delightful colonial pueblos of Barichara, Socorro, Guane and Giron; not to mention surreal red rivers in Guadalupe and a bustling urban […]
As Colombia continues to grow in popularity/urgency on the backpacker trail, new hostels are opening every month. Yet none are quite as unique in concept as Paraiso Secreto, a collection of seven wonderfully colourful hostels, which have taken over a group of abandoned mansions on Isla Grande, less than an hour off the coast […]
Most Colombian travelers have Medellin pretty high on their agendas these days. However, very few of those people know that within just 3 hours of Colombia’s second city lies a stunning area of protected tropical rainforest. That’s right, I said rainforest, or jungle if you will. Most people tend to associate tropical jungles with […]
¡¡¡Revisa nuestra Guía Completa para visitar Cabo de la Vela completamente actualizada para más información sobre viajar a La Guajira!!! Punta Gallinas es el punto más septentrional de América del Sur – el inicio de un continente (o el final: depende de su perspectiva realmente): el punto donde la gran masa continental de América […]
To read this in English, click here. Siguiendo nuestro post del hostel Casa Elemento en Minca, el cual he declarado como el hostel con la mejor vista en Colombia, me puse a pensar lo que hace que un hostel sea diferente …claro, hay cosas como la relación entre calidad y precio, el buen servicio y la […]
I have just returned from a fantastic blog trip to Manizales with the ‘Corporacion para el Fomento del Aviturismo en Colombia’, where we visited some wonderful examples of the stunning natural wonders to be found in the outskirts of the city, in the Caldas countryside. We spent one great day high up in the paramo of […]
Following on from yesterday’s post about Casa Elemento hostel in Minca, which I declared has the best hostel view in Colombia, I got to thinking about what it is that makes a really great hostel…sure, there’s things like value for money, good service and an easy booking procedure, but these are standard requirements in […]