San Jose del Guaviare has long been one of my top tips for adventurous travel in Colombia: there’s a red river that’s the double of Cano Cristales, remarkable 10,000-year-old rock paintings in the jungle, and amazing biodiversity. However, in May I had the opportunity to visit yet another spectacular spot in the jungles of […]
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This Saturday, May 13, is a massive day for Colombia; a chance for the country to break a world record and make history. However, unless you, like me, are a binocular-sporting bird enthusiast it’s highly unlikely that you have this date triple-circled in red marker pen in your diary. But I, and thousands of […]
I get asked for Colombia travel tips a lot. I mean on a daily basis (and not via the blog, that’s my job: I mean personally). Sometimes people want to know things that it would definitely be quicker to Google (“Dude, how much do flights to Santa Marta cost?” – really?!) and sometimes they’re asking for broader […]
En el Colombia Travel Blog se ha convertido una tradición anual, escribir una lista de nuestros 10 mejores destinos para viajar este año – cada enero miramos a los últimos 12 meses de nuestros viajes por Colombia y las tendencias que hemos notado y definimos 10 lugares espectaculares que recomendamos mucho a visitar a nuestros […]
It’s become a New Year tradition on the Colombia Travel Blog to write a list of our 10 best destinations in Colombia for the upcoming year – every January we look at the last 12 months of Colombian travel that we have undertaken and the trends that we have noticed and determine 10 amazing […]
There are 32 departments in Colombia, and I’d bet that the average visitor to the country only visits around 6 or 7, perhaps even fewer. Most people who spend more time here will make it to some of the more off-the-beaten-track destinations, yet there are many regions that have been so forgotten about by […]
Read the English version of this post here: “Caño Cristales’ long-lost twin – Tranquilandia in Guaviare” He desarrollado una costumbre extraña de tropezarme con ríos de color rojo que no son Caño Cristales durante mis viajes en Colombia. Aunque no me crean, nunca he ido al famoso río que escapó del cielo en el Parque […]
When Colombians go to the polls this Sunday (October 2) they will be asked a simple question with a thousand different potential outcomes, consequences and potential developments: ‘SI’ or ‘NO’ to the peace deal with the FARC. President Juan Manuel Santos has already been quoted as saying that a ‘No’ vote means that “the guerrilla commanders […]
La versión de este post en castellano aquí: “Esto NO ES Caño Cristales – Tranquilandia en Guaviare” I’ve developed a bit of a weird niche habit of stumbling across red rivers that aren’t Caño Cristales during my travels in Colombia. Believe it or not I’ve never actually been to the iconic ‘river that escaped from paradise’ […]