–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Writing about how to visit Mocoa in Colombia’s southern Putumayo department has become somewhat of a hobby and passion of mine – I have written blogs about hiking to the Fin del Mundo waterfalls, visiting the Paway Amazonian Ecological Center, and explaining the 10 reasons why you absolutely have […]
Tag: Colombia Off The Beaten Track
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Last month I wrote a blog post all about the Cano Cristales of Santander (that’s what I christened it anyway!) – this focused on the amazing red rivers flowing around the small town of Guadalupe in Santander department, and their similarity to the iconic Colombian attraction of Cano Cristales…the […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– There’s another puente (or Colombian national holiday) next weekend and, instead of heading a couple of hours away to tierra caliente, I have (happily) accepted the ‘offer’ to accompany some friends on another trip to Mocoa in Putumayo – my third this year! The majority of Colombians have never visited the department and […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I spent 5 days in Colombia’s Chocó department in late August: it was my second visit to this Pacific coast department, and I can say with some certainty that it won’t be the last. The principal reason for my visit to the Chocó was to watch the humpback whales that come […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia’s Choco department, in the far west of the country, bordering the Pacific ocean, is a complex place: the poorest, most deprived region of the country, with some of the highest rainfall on earth, but blessed with a rich natural wealth, from humpback whales breeding in it’s warm waters, […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– We were somewhere on the edge of Meta near the banks of the river when the visions began to take hold: suddenly the silence of the jungle was broken by the sound of exhaling and splashing as the surface of the brown river was broken by the most surreal creatures I […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I’ve said it before on this blog, and I’ll say it again: I am a birdwatcher. As a 27 year old man, many people are surprised that I am so passionate about something so often associated with older people; however, living in a country like Colombia, with it’s world […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I recently took a last-minute trip to the small town of Victoria in the very south of Caldas department (so far south in fact, that much of the landscape you can see in these photos is actually Tolima), ostensibly in search of birds (the forests above the town are […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– We’ve written previously about the experience of arriving in San Cipriano on the town’s famous brujitas: motorbikes strapped to wooden benches, zipping along train tracks through the Pacific jungle…and I’ll bet you thought that the town couldn’t possibly get any better than it’s iconic mode of transport…well, you’re wrong! And here’s […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Norte de Santander department, located, you guessed it, north of Santander on the Venezuelan border, isn’t really an overly visited Colombian department…it seems to fall between the gaps of the people who visit Santander for San Gil and Barichara, and those heading to the coast in Santa Marta and […]