Destination: Colombia
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Mon, 10 Apr 2006 | By will | Views [4798] | Comments [25]
I spent three great weeks in Colombia in December/January 06. Here are a few tips for other travellers going that way. It´s a lovely country and well worth the effort. Travel was very easy, most towns have modern bus stations and lots of competition ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 | By will | Views [4038] | Comments [16]
I have been in Latin America since the beginning of the year and one Frequently Asked Question has been; which is your favorite country so far? And the answer has to be Colombia . Colombia , the name itself is enough to strike unease into most ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
Wed, 6 May 2009 | By k-lero | Views [396] | Comments [11]
Qué contar de todo un mes por Colombia? Es un país espectacular, uno de los mejores que he visitado hasta el momento en todo el continente, por sus sitios, su gentes y su encanto. Y afortunada o desafortunadamente está todavía poco explotado turísticamente ... Read more >
Sun, 8 Feb 2009 | By spencerhoneyman | Views [204] | Comments [9]
Yoyoyoyo were in it. In the thicket, the briar bush, breathin in the spanish breathing out something that is almost starting to sound like real spanish. accordians and bus rides, epanadas and jungle swinging. Last post was in Taganga, we have since ... Read more >
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 | By clarinette | Views [810] | Comments [6]
I am now in the sweltering heats of Cartagena, Colombia... The city is an absolute gem - Unbelievabley beautiful and much cleaner than anything I ever experienced in Ecuador. The city has a timeless air to it... When here, you feel as though you could ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 12 May 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [324] | Comments [6]
Well I've gotta say, that I love the city of Bogota, it is most likely my favorite city we've come across on this trip! Our last stop in South America, Bogota, is a high mountain city, at 2600 meters(8500 feet) filled with color, cobblestone streets, ... Read more >
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 | By bee_beej | Views [260] | Comments [6]
Hi all, Well after a very very early London departure on the nasiest easyjet flight eva (what did we expect???) we arrived in Madrid ready to catch our flight to Bogata Columbia. All started well, excited, sleepy. heading to the gate and and suddenly ... Read more >
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 | By jorge_tote | Views [247] | Comments [6]
For english read below in Italic letters El comienzo:: Luego de un largo y barato lechero vuelo desde San Diego a Colombia, donde me toco dormir en el aeropuerto de Miami con todas mis maletas amarradas a mi mano con una cuerda. Todo comienza ... Read more >
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 | By bee_beej | Views [181] | Comments [5]
Amigos! The Trek to Ciudad Perdida, The Lost City First off, our trekking team line up, our boys...J Dawg, a US golf pro and Kano, an Aussie (Londoner) on a mission to find a South American bar to buy, Tomas and Aurelian, the lovely French boys and ... Read more >
Sun, 1 Mar 2009 | By spencerhoneyman | Views [177] | Comments [5]
Hola amigos, ¿que mas? that mneans whats up for all you gringos out there. Thats right we speakin da slang now, chicos y chicas. el slang loco. Not really, we get lost in everday conversation but ever since Holly started reading the Chronicles of Narnia ... Read more >
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [171] | Comments [5]
So Leute, ich sitze gerade in Santa Marta, an der Nord- bzw. Karibikküste in Kolumbien und schwitze mir echt nen Ast! Ich wohne bei einem ganz netten Kolumbianer im Haus mit und von dessen Balkon und meiner Hängematte hat ma einen fantastischen Ausblick ... Read more >
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [168] | Comments [5]
Buenos Dias,
dieses Mal muß ich, den Geschehnissen
zu Hause entsprechend mit einer tollen Nachricht anfangen!
Seit dem 20. August 2009 bin ich
stolzer ONKEL von Lina Hartmann! Ganz liebe Grüße von hieraus an
die stolzen Eltern Heike ... Read more >
Tags: guajira, cabo de vela
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 | By tpara | Views [161] | Comments [5]
Arriving in Armenia around midday i then got hopelessly lost again. I ended up stopping at a furniture shop. A hotel was recommended, I must have looked pitiful blackened face because the lady hailed a taxi and got me to follow the taxi to a hotel, which ... Read more >
Thu, 20 Aug 2009 | By katieburns | Views [84] | Comments [5]
I have been in Colombia for 5 weeks in total and my adventures have continued. I began in Medellin (the city of eternal spring) and you know what they are not wrong. It is the perfect temperature all day everyday, sun shining not super hot or humid.... Read more >
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By spencerhoneyman | Views [272] | Comments [4]
Hola amigos. Estamos Spencer y Holly, en la grande adventura de nos vidas! Hopefully our spanish will improve throughout this trip... for now, the entries will be in english, so that our friends and family have a faint hope of understanding what we are ... Read more >
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [250] | Comments [4]
Parque National Tayrona is very close to Taganga, however, it is a climate world away. Taganga is in a scorched, hot desert-like coastland, and Tayrona NP is in a thick, humid, tropical jungle. We took the local bus from Santa Marta(right outside Taganga) ... Read more >
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 | By amil_patel | Views [249] | Comments [4]
Mensaje para mis compadres de este viaje Esta caminata fue una de las mas impresionantes que yo he hecho. La belleza de la selva, las ruinas, los saltos locos de las piedras y arboles etc. Pero, tambien el humor y ambiente de este viaje fue muy ... Read more >
Tags: trekking
ruins
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [161] | Comments [4]
Hola Amigos, muchachos y muchachas, seid Ihr bereit, das Neueste zu erfahren? Bereit mir bis zur Mitte der Erde zu folgen? Bereit Euch die Teufelsnase anzuschauen? Dann auf geht’s! Nachdem wir Puerto Lopez mit all seinen tollen Walen, Vögeln und geldhungrigen ... Read more >
Tags: quito, mitad del mundo, guayasamin, popayán
Wed, 5 Aug 2009 | By steffen_graz | Views [142] | Comments [4]
Seid mal wieder ganz herzlich gegrüßt. Nach eineinhalb Wochen völliger Abgeschiedenheit, gibt’s vieles zu erzählen. Wen das Ganze interessiert, einfach weiterlesen, für die anderen, gibt’s in der Fotogallerie „Kolumbien“ einiges fürs Auge! Mit Mike ... Read more >
Tags: tierradentro, popayán, san augustín
Wed, 21 Jun 2006 | By clarinette | Views [2088] | Comments [3]
My last 6 days have been spent hiking to the "Ciudad Perdida" (The
lost city) which is, true to its name, a city built around 1000 years ago,
forgotten, lost and swallowed up by the jungle for a very long time, only to be
rediscovered ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 | By will | Views [1978] | Comments [3]
We did this trek in January 2006 and it is a good introduction to trekking in the High Andes. The route takes you from the wonderful Wax Palm valley of Cocora, through the Cloud forest and up to the unique Andean mountain environment of the Paramo.... Read more >
Tags: Trekking Route Descriptions
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 | By amil_patel | Views [364] | Comments [3]
The more astute amongst you will have noticed that I am indeed trying to row a motorised boat with a stick. That`s what happens when the motor on the boat you are in breaks down 2km from the nearest "settlement" in the middle of the Amazon.... Read more >
Tags: amazon jungle
trekking
survival
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By senor-lance | Views [269] | Comments [3]
I am saying chau to south america in cartagena. Tomorrow i will take a yacht to panama. The biggest chapter in my adventure is about over. It has been the most intense, challenging, and satisfying adventure of my life. There were leaps more high than ... Read more >
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 | By spencerhoneyman | Views [175] | Comments [3]
So the biggest news first - as always, there is some terrible music playing in this internet cafe, some sappy spanish love song laid over 80´s electronic melodies and the occasional discordant honking-beeping noise... however, this time... wait for it.... Read more >
Sun, 26 Apr 2009 | By nickandlaina | Views [169] | Comments [3]
I´ve gotta admit, Colombians have style. Getting into a taxi cab, the driver sipping a infinitely small cup of dark black colombian coffee(the first group of south americans who actually drink drip coffe, not instant), nice colombian guitar music in ... Read more >
