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Fri, 15 Oct 2010 | By claudea | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
From my last trip to Colombia, my birth country.
I've always known that Colombia is a great place, but i always lived in the capital, where there are not much contact with nature, so the last time i went to Colombia i was touring places unknown for ...
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2010
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [7602]
To get to the Caribbean Coast we had to take our first overnight bus in Colombia. Throughout South America we had been warned of arctic overnight buses caused by powerful
air conditioning, but having never experienced anything other than the natural ... Read more >
Tags: capurganá, caribbean coast, cartagena, darien gap, diving, santa marta, taganga, tayrona
Sun, 3 Oct 2010 | By quique552 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Photograph is to find the essence of the simplest things and make them complex. On my trip to Colombia i found a village which does not affect the passage of time. A "Macondo" lost in the mountains.
Fotografiar es buscar la esencia de ...
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2010
Sat, 2 Oct 2010 | By soly | Views [1225]
There´s something about airports late at night. That time when it´s too late to be today and too early to be tomorrow. It was around 3 a.m in Bogota airport. I´ve been here for 12 hours and had no idea how much longer it´ll be as there´s been a coup ... Read more >
Tags: airport, columbia, ecuador, egypt, travel documentary scholarship
Fri, 1 Oct 2010 | By soly | Views [1263]
"The army has taken over Quito airport so we will be making an emergency landing in Bogota, Columbia". I waited for the young Ecuadorian lady sitting next to me on the plane to finish calming down an older lady sitting across the aisle, ... Read more >
Tags: documentary, ecuador, scholarhsip
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [4008] | Comments [2]
Medellin was notoriously known for being the most dangerous city in the world during the 1980’s and 90’s because it was ruled by Pablo Escobar 's Medellin cocaine
cartel. Today the city is a thriving place and safe for travellers and the ... Read more >
Tags: arequipe, barichara, bogota, botero, gold, guane, medellin, pablo escobar, san gil
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 | By ryanandjo | Views [3519] | Comments [1]
Ecuador sent us out with a huge party in our honour, well actually they were celebrating something completely different, keeping us awake with music blaring until 3.30 in
the morning in the towns main square. Unable to sleep we set off early for ... Read more >
Tags: cali, coffee, las lajas, popayan, salento, san agustin, tejo, valle de cocora
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 | By kate2501 | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 7 Aug 2010 | By mudeeboot | Views [546]
This is an eclectic account of the last two months of travel. Some parts of my trip are covered in detail, others briefly and yet more omitted entirely. It has been constructed from notes and scribblings written at the time and my memories as I write it ... Read more >
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 | By kate2501 | Views [1000]
We hopped on board bus number 45,000 from Bogota to head to a little town called Maripita which is just three hours shy of Manizallis in the heart of the coffee region. The landscape is absolutely stunning. Southern Colombia is lush and green, the ... Read more >
Sat, 17 Jul 2010 | By rachelf | Views [261]
So, I´ve lost access to my Blogger blog. I resume journaling here. Bogota is a nice city. I cannot find a better word than ´nice´. It isn´t beautiful (though there are beautiful things here), it isn´t grand (though there are grand things here). It is ... Read more >
Sat, 22 May 2010 | By lounloz | Views [526]
Soooooo, we loved Suesca, both very happy to go back for the second time, meet lots of other nice colombians and relahar (relax) lots. We were gonna get a night bus south to Cali but I came down with a narly fever and couldnt face it, so we spent another ... Read more >
Wed, 12 May 2010 | By lounloz | Views [852]
After the city of Leon, we missioned to the Island of Ometepe, on Lago de Nicaragua. After a beautiful boatride, we arrived at the small island with 2 massive volcanoes, and very questionable roads. We couldnt believe that it would take 3 hours on the ... Read more >
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 | By robrobjos | Views [3492] | Comments [2]
Surprisingly things don´t always go amazingly and exceedingly to plan, which may not make for great reading, so sorry if it´s not riveting, but here´s what happened. We arrived in Cartagena, Colombia after the super good catamaran experience ... Read more >
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Mon, 1 Mar 2010 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2634]
I was trekking in Tayrona National Park in Colombia. I was waiting at the bottom of a narrow path for another trekker to descend before going up. As he was coming down, the man slipped, grabbing a tree to keep him from falling. When he grabbed the ... Read more >
Tags: colombia, concussion, nature, stitches, trekking
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