Trekking en Colombia puede ser una manera genial de ver otro lado del país, y escapar la bulla y (enfrentarnos) a la polución de varias ciudades grandes – hacer senderismo en Colombia los llevará al campo y les permite atisbar la verdadera diversidad del país. Lo más genial de los trekking en Colombia son: los […]
Tag: The Lost City
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Trekking in Colombia can be a great way to see another side of the country, and to escape the noise and (let’s face it) pollution of several of the big cities – going on a trek in Colombia will get you into the countryside and allow you to get […]
To read this in English, click here. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Peru cuenta con Machu Picchu, México con el Chichen Itza y Colombia tiene La Ciudad Perdida. Está antigua ciudad del pueblo Tayrona en el Caribe Colombiano fue construida 800 años D.C (por lo que es unos 650 años más antigua que Machu Picchu) […]
Colombia is full of incredible destinations; be it jungle covered beaches, ancient ruins in the forest, or mighty humpback whales leaping from the ocean. One of the greatest wonders that Colombia has to offer is undoubtedly the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta – a huge mountain range jutting up from the Colombian Caribbean coast. It […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Peru has Machu Picchu, Mexico has Chichen Itza, and Colombia has La Ciudad Perdida, or The Lost City. This ancient city of the Tayrona people of Colombia’s Caribbean coast was built in 800AD (making it some 650 years older than Machu Picchu), and was only discovered as recently as […]
I realize I’m terribly unprepared for my four-day trek to the La Ciudad Perdida, The Lost City, in the Sierra Nevada as soon as I get into the van that’s taking us to the starting point. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– How do I know? Well for starters, when I get into the van and […]
–> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Check out ‘The Top 10 Treks in Colombia: from Andes to Amazon’ My feet were soaked. My bag weighed heavy on my back. I was tired. More tired than I think I’ve ever been. But alongside the exhaustion and dehydration was a sense of unmistakeable contentment. I had arrived […]
Colombia had around 2 million foreign tourists in 2011, and experts are predicting this year to completely eclipse that already record breaking one: 4 million foreign tourists in 2012! Two of them were my parents…that’s right, my parents in Colombia! Compare that to 1998, when about 70,000 visited this country (definitely not including my parents), and you have some idea of […]
To round off safety week Colombia Travel Blog is going to be looking at the places which were once no-go zones in Colombia and have opened up to travel. Many areas were once controlled by either guerrillas or paramilitaries, and were impossible for travellers to visit. However in the last 10 years Colombia has seen […]
Today is a monumental day. Is it the constant sheets of rain that cascade down my window in Bogotá? No, that’s no it. Is it that today I’m going to Estereo Picnic? That’s cool, but no, that’s not it either. It’s not even that today marks the start of the Semana Santa festivities. –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) […]