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; […]
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–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Alright kids, it`s time to get your Halloween in Colombia on. And that means getting your costume on. I guess you could go for the same old same old standards of a bedsheet with two holes cut in it (terrified just at the thought of it), a Scream mask […]
–> 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 […]
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 […]
The biggest piece of graffiti on Bogota´s giant art gallery on 26th Street is of a weedy, bespectacled young man with a smart, somewhat ironic expression. Not really the profile of your traditional Colombian hero. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Your usual brand of hero – both here in Colombia and in the world […]
Here at See Colombia Travel, we spend a lot of time banging on about the beauty and charm of Colombia’s many fascinating colonial towns. Sure, Villa de Leyva’s cobbled square and quaint streets have rightly made it one of Colombia’s main tourist destinations. Barichara’s red roofs and abundance of –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– pretty […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Drawing on walls isn´t particularly new. In fact, it´s often taken as one of the first readily-noticeable markers of human civilisation. From those horses in ancient French caves to mouthless gods in outback Australia, we´ve been articulating our beliefs, preoccupations, and joy on the walls at hand ever since. […]
–> 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 ancient archaeological site which few people outside the country are aware of. San […]
I don´t know how to put this, but Colombia is kind of a big deal. We´ve been going on about how amazing this country is and how special travel in Colombia is for a few years now, and it´s quickly becoming obvious that the rest of the world is finally catching on. After seeing Bogotá […]
There are times when learning a language that you’re stunned at the similarities. For example there’s an old Spanish proverb (“A caballo regalado no se le mira el diente“) that literally means “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”. Who’dathunk it? –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– There are times, however, when you’re left baffled by […]