–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– My name is Chris, and I drink. Coffee. Quite a lot of coffee in fact. A friend of mine just opened up a lovely little restaurant and coffee bar in La Candelaria (Papaya Gourmet, since you ask), and according to him I’m just about the only person who’ll come in, […]
Tag: The Best of Colombia
La versión de este post en ingles aquí: “How I fell in love with Colombia” –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Admitiré una cosa para empezar: Colombia y yo, no fue amor a primera vista. Esto fue principalmente porque la “primera vista” fue a la ciudad fronteriza: Maicao en el desierto de La Guajira – crucé la […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– 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 […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– It’s Christmas Day, and I’m strolling along a gently winding path by the banks of a river. A family of pigs, a mother and five tiny piglets, are snuffling calmly in the undergrowth to my right. They are largely unperturbed as I pass by within a few feet of […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I’ll admit one thing to begin with: Colombia and I, it wasn’t love at first sight. This was mainly because ‘first sight’ was the slightly illicit desert border town of Maicao in La Guajira – I crossed over that border in December 2009 to stock up on pesos to […]
1. The beaches are really disappointing –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– 2. And the cities aren’t much better… 3. And don’t even get us started on the terrible weather! 4. The people are so closed and unfriendly… 5. They never seem to have any fun… 6. Everyone is always dressed in such dull and boring […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– I’ll be honest up front: I’m only visiting my family in England for a couple of weeks, but I’ve been living in Colombia long enough now that even that is long enough to make me miss certain things about my adopted home country. British culture and Colombian culture are […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Read Part 1 of the Top 10 Colombian Travel Destinations for 2016 here Continuing on from Part 1 of this guide to the 10 Colombian destinatons you have to visit in 2016, here’s Part 2: featuring red rivers, a whole department(!), a festival, a town you’ve definitely heard off (but […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– So, it’s 2016, and there has never been a better time to visit Colombia and explore it’s myriad destinations, remarkable diversity, and varied culture. Of course there are the classics: no self-respecting Colombia traveler ends up missing many of Cartagena, Tayrona, Medellin, Cali or Bogota. However, there are so […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– 2015 has been a great year for the Colombia Travel Blog: we’ve had more visitors than ever before to our blog, more followers across all of our varied social media platforms, we’ve traveled more than ever before around Colombia, we reached 1000 blog posts, and we’ve had some really […]