Camino Real Bolivar Colombia

El aniversario de la muerte de Simón Bolívar fue el 17 de diciembre de 1830. Aunque el hombre comúnmente conocido como ‘El Libertador’ nació en Venezuela (Caracas en 1783), muchos de los mayores triunfos y desastres de Bolívar tuvieron lugar en lo que hoy es Colombia. Durante y después de las Guerras de Independencia que […]

Colombia Independence day

Colombia celebrated its Independence Day on July 20th, 1810, independence was declared in Santa Fe de Bogotá. The process was by no means easy; the Wars of Independence continued long after this date, and Colombia became part of Gran Colombia (including modern-day Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador) in 1819, but, following its break-up in 1831, Colombia […]

Camino Real Bolivar Colombia

The anniversary of the death of Simon Bolivar was on December 17th, 1830. Although the man commonly known as ‘The Liberator’ was born in Venezuela (Caracas in 1783), many of Bolivar’s greatest triumphs and disasters took place in what is now Colombia, during and after the Wars of Independence which have made him famous throughout […]

  –> Colombia Dolar (TRM) <– Boyacá department (the department just north of Bogotá) isn’t exactly undervisited by tourists and travellers, mainly because it’s home to the iconic pueblo patrimonio of Villa de Leyva, a must-visit spot on many people’s Colombian travel lists (and rightly so, it’s gorgeous). But Boyacá has a huge amount to offer beyond Villa […]