Sitting on a secluded beach in the stunning Tayrona National Park, admiring the tranquillity, the raw beauty and the almost baffling serenity, two Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Degez and Geoffroy Dumesnil, have their very own light bulb moment. A business idea, a brand born out of love for Colombia and a passion for sport, inspired by the […]
Tag: The Caribbean Coast
Nov 28
Crónicas de la Guajira – Fantasmas, tesoros escondidos y un pájaro loco: Conoce a Don Jorge Solano, encargado de la cueva.
You can find the english version of this post here: https://seecolombia.travel/blog/2012/11/la-guajira-part-i-ghosts-hidden-treasures-and-a-crazy-bird-meet-don-jorge-adalberto-solano-the-cave-keeper/ –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Dicen que se trata del viaje no del destino…pero ya estábamos ansiosos por llegar a la cueva prometida. Aunque el paisaje es increible y sentíamos que estábamos a punto de vivir una aventura al mejor estilo de Indiana Jones, ya habíamos […]
A veces no son los grandes monumentos, las fortalezas o las catedrales los únicos protagonistas mudos de la historia de una ciudad. A veces son los detalles más pequeños los que nos hablan – quizás mucho más – de la vida cotidiana y de cómo estaba estructurada en tiempos pasados una sociedad. –> Colombia Dolar […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– As a cynical European, I always understood Magical Realism as crazy Latin American folklore, a literary device that had no real connection to the world. My British skepticism couldn’t grasp the concept, the idea of magic being present in the mundane, real world, of normal, realistic settings going hand […]
Todo visitante en Cartagena de Indias queda seducido con su magia y sabe que los días que se pasan en esta ciudad colonial de Colombia, patrimonio cultural de la humanidad, nunca son suficientes para develar sus secretos. Siempre, siempre, hay algo que se nos quedó por ver y que nos hace extrañarla apenas la dejamos. […]
–> 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 Dolar (TRM) <– My home country is famous for how many beaches it´s home to. However, sadly, I grew up way out in the country, nowhere within sight of a real beach. Back in country Australia, where I’m from, beaches were sheets with a hose and tricks. Moving to Sydney […]
They say the wrong decision is better than no decision. It’s a mantra that can save you a great deal of time and effort if you apply it frequently. However, there are times, for instance when travelling to Colombia, when you’ll have a decision to make and, frankly, there won’t be a wrong decision. What […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Colombia is rife with a plethora of varied landscapes and regions with different cultures and traditions, but perhaps one of the most distinctive is La Guajira, the northernmost region in South America. The scenery is utterly unique, the indigenous wayuu people who make up the majority of the population […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Although everybody loves Colombia´s Caribbean coast (just check out last week´s gallery again if you yourself still don´t), sometimes I get the feeling that its inhabitants, generally referred to as Costeños, often get a raw deal. In particular, it sometimes appears that some residents of the two major Colombian cities, […]