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Vibrant cities with soaring skyscrapers, elegant port towns cut by cobbled alleys and bougainvillea-shrouded balconies, spectacular national parks from tropical to heavenly-high-alpine, cruise boats, party buses, late-night salsa dancing and glorious shopping. This is Colombia we're talking about!
On the surface, Colombia is a seemingly untroubled country. Media reports, however, still speak of coca fields, violent crime and kidnappings. Beyond the headlines is a thriving society with a rising middle class, some of the best health care and universities in South America, and improved security.
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Tue, 22 May 2012 | By noflyzone | Views [7]
The streets are empty. Hardly a single
business has shutters up. We're too high for tumbleweed, but if we
weren't, it would surely be blowing down the road. Yet today is a
day when few work and most have free time. This is hardly ... Read more >
Sun, 20 May 2012 | By noflyzone | Views [23]
After a lot of rushing around looking
at apartments and going to job interviews, we thought we deserved a
break and headed off to Cali in the south for a bit of sun and
relaxation. Cali isn't very far as the condor flies and since
condors ... Read more >
Tags: cali, drunks, howler monkeys, jacuzzis, mosquitos, pool, scots, walking, yotoco, zoo
Thu, 17 May 2012 | By noflyzone | Photo Gallery
Cali...
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Fri, 4 May 2012 | By noflyzone | Photo Gallery
Graffiti, mountains, bubblegum buildings etc
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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 | By noflyzone | Views [81]
Telling folk back home we were heading out on an adventure to Colombia brought two usual responses: a) "you'll get kidnapped" or b) "you'll get murdered". Well, surprise surprise, IT'S NOT A WAR ZONE. It's a perfectly civilised ... Read more >
Tags: andes, bogota, candelaria, old town
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 | By mixedmediabook | Photo Gallery
Villa de Leyva is a colonial village, trapped in time, with a material palette restricted to white walls, inlaid wooden structure and red clay tiles.
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Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | By mixedmediabook | Views [111]
A foolish question in the
middle of the night disturbed my reading in one of the biggest plazas in South
America. I suddenly heard: Miss, do you know when Villa de Leyva was founded? I had arrived in town
that morning from Bogota and ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | By agrant | Views [66]
Hello all again! The trek from Quito to Bogota proved to be a long but enjoyable one with several highlights. I didn't find Quito all that inspiring but spent a rainy day there getting affairs in order before my departure. I headed up to the 'Mitad ... Read more >
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 | By anbla | Views [74]
At my
return from Brazil, my friends expected me to talk about samba and soccer but
what I talked about the most was food. I was still feeling Brazil’s cultural
taste in my mouth and wanted nothing more than ... Read more >
Tags: travel writing scholarship 2012
Tue, 3 Apr 2012 | By jenc_13 | Views [32]
Arriving in Santa Marta to hot, tropical sunshine was a welcome relief after a freezing 15 hours on a bus. There´s not a lot to find charming about Santa Marta, but the main reason I´d ventured back up to the Colombian coast was for the Betfair sponsored ... Read more >
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 | By jenc_13 | Views [33]
After leaving Villa de Leyva behind, the next stop on the list was San Gil, adventure sports capital of Colombia, and supposedly about a 4 hour bus ride after connecting in Tunja. Now I know I´ve made my fair share of complaints/comments about some ... Read more >
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 | By jenc_13 | Views [29]
So after my early arrival in Bogota I headed to Platypus hostel in the La Candelaria to meet the second familiar face of the trip: Freemo, of Betfair ´fame´. I only really had a day to see the sights in Bogota, as we were planning to head north the ... Read more >
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 | By jenc_13 | Views [43]
It seems to be becoming a trend that I start each entry with some kind of transport misadventure, so I might as well continue with that theme.... I left for Salento in the Zona Cafetera (a whole region devoted to making coffee, yes please) on Friday ... Read more >
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 | By jenc_13 | Views [60]
After a few teething problems with my flights in South America so far, you can imagine my surprise when I found myself not only making my connection in Bogota when en route from Quito to Medellin, but actually being EARLY. (I also have to add one ... Read more >
Fri, 2 Mar 2012 | By jenc_13 | Views [77]
OK I kind of want to scream right now......having just spent an hour trying to catch up on a week of activities, the entire entry got wiped so now I have to start over......sigh. And obviously Version 1 was much more witty and interesting. Anyway.... Read more >
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