Posts in Category: South America
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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 […]
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Botero Museum – Love it or Hate It – You Decide
This is my final post from the great city of Bogota, Colombia, an underrated and under appreciated South American capitol that is undergoing a renaissance ever since the end of the drug cartel wars over a decade ago. Alison and I are in Colombia on a tour with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad and the […]
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Gold Museum Bogota – Colombia as El Dorado
This is my fifth post on a recent Adventures Abroad trip to the wonderful country of Colombia where I found the people extremely friendly and outgoing, the food amazingly good and the variety of things to see and do off the charts. The first four posts all deal with the city of Bogota and surrounding area. […]
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La Candelaria – Where Street Art Reigns Supreme
This is my fourth post on my trip to the wonderful country of Colombia with Adventures Abroad. You can find the first two describing our activities on the first day on this website. Day two began with an ascent by funicular up to Monserrate, the sacred mountain that overlooks Bogota where we enjoyed fantastic views […]
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Monserrate – Bogota’s Top Attraction
This is the third post from Colombia during the on going eleven day trip to that country with Adventures Abroad. The first post was an introduction to Bogota and the wonderful Paloquemao Market, while in the second we headed to the small city of Zipaquira to see the Catedral de Sal and play a game of tejo. […]
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Zipaquira – Catedral de Sal and a Game of Tejo
This is the third post on my ongoing trip to Colombia with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. The last post was an introduction to Colombia and featured a visit to the amazing Paloquemao Market. That visit occupied the first morning of the trip after which we reboarded our bus and headed for the small city […]
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Bogota Market – A Great Introduction to Colombia
This is the second in a series of posts on the South American country of Colombia. In the first post I mused on whether or not Alison and I would find Colombia to be the stereotypical Latin American violence ridden banana republic or a country finally at peace with itself. Well the answer became readily apparent […]
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Colombia – South American Surprise Destination
I’m sitting in the Maple Leaf Lounge in Toronto airport contemplating the wisdom of the next destination that Alison and I have chosen to explore – Colombia. Several friends, including some that are very well travelled, have expressed surprise that we would travel to a place that in their words is “Really dangerous”. My mother-in-law, […]