Posts in Category: Colombia
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Cartagena Part II – What to See and Eat
In my first post on Cartagena I gave a brief outline of the history of the place and a recommendation as to where to stay. In this post I’m going to describe some of the things you’ll want to see, a couple of great places to eat and as promised, how to get rid of a […]
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Cartagena – Colombia’s Caribbean Colonial City
Cartagena was the final destination on an almost two week tour of Colombia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad and it turned out to be the perfect place to wrap things up in this amazing country. After spending much of our time at some very high altitudes with consequently cooler temperatures, it was great to feel […]
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Palenque de San Basilio – Founded by Slaves
One of the reasons I consistently like to travel with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad is that they make a real effort to get you off the standard ‘tourist’ itinerary followed by most of their competitors. Because the size of the group is small it is possible to get to places and experience things that are […]
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Commune 13, Medellin Rises From Despair
Triskaidekaphobia is an irrational fear of the number thirteen, but in the case of Commune 13 on the hillsides of Medellin, Colombia that fear has a very historical and rational basis. Perhaps no place on earth has been as unlucky as Commune 13 as I discovered on a recent guided tour by Adventures Abroad into what, […]
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Familia Londono – The Real Face of Medellin
This is the eleventh post from my trip to Colombia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad and we’ve finally arrived at that most notorious of drug cartel cities, Medellin. However, before we explore the city’s violence ridden past and how Medellin emerged from it as one of Latin America’s most progressive cities, there’s a more pleasant task. […]
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Jardin Colombia – Worth the Effort to Visit
This is the tenth post on a recent trip to Colombia with Canadian based travel company Adventures Abroad and before leaving I wrote this post querying whether or not visiting Colombia was really a good idea or not. Now, having been in the country for almost a week, I can say unequivocally that it was the […]
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Valle de Cocora – Unique Wax Palm Landscape
This is my ninth post from a recent trip to Colombia with my favourite travel company, Vancouver based Adventures Abroad. In the last post, after traveling by plane and bus to the remote town of Salento, we visited the nearby El Ocaso coffee farm and I finally got a taste of just how good real, fresh coffee can […]
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El Ocaso Finca – Finally a Great Cup of Coffee
This is post number eight from the wonderful country of Colombia which Alison and I are touring with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad along with a group of sixteen others. In the last post we left the city of Bogota and arrived in the town of Salento, centre of the coffee growing business in Colombia. After […]
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Salento – Introduction to the Colombian Countryside
This is my seventh post from the country of Colombia and the first outside the environs of the capitol city of Bogota. Our Adventures Abroad group spent an amazing two days in Bogota, so much so that I was able to generate six different posts on just our time there. You can read them here […]