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Colombian food might be misunderstood and under appreciated, but for the locals and many foreigners living in Colombia, the food is a highlight. “Time to get fat, woo!” one friend posted on Facebook, about to visit Colombia for the second time. Recalling so many meals…
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Fue aproximadamente a los 5 meses de mi estadía en Bogotá que me di cuenta de que vivir en Colombia y viajar por Colombia son dos cosas muy diferentes. Viajar por Colombia generalmente quiere decir ver las mejores partes del país. Pasar de ciudad en…
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Visiting a country for the first time can make it difficult to plan the logistics of your trip. It’s a challenge getting to know how long it takes to get from one city to the next, how much time should be allocated in each town,…
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I was sitting in the hostel reception area when a tall man with a wide-brimmed hat walked through the door and up the stairs. My partner, Pej, who I recently discovered has an interesting concept of time, had run down to the Exito supermarket on…
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Our trip to El Peñol, Guatapé didn’t start off on the right foot. We caught the Metro to the Terminal de Transporte del Norte where the buses to Guatape leave from. We bought our tickets, which were $25,000COP for two people, made our way to…
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La comisión de exportación de Colombia y el Consejo de Turismo Proexport, crearon una campaña entera acerca del miedo a viajar a Colombia. “El único riesgo es que te quieras quedar” el atractivo eslogan. La campaña contó con algunas de las estrellas deportivas favoritas de…
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I’ve been keeping up with Courtenay Strickland’s life in Colombia since she moved to Barranquilla three years ago. She’s been documenting her life in the country on her blog Barranquilla or Bust, and now she’s moved to Medellin with her son. It is such a…
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One of Colombia’s most popular tourist destinations, Tayrona Park, has been closed because of drought and after a series of complaints made by the local indigenous groups about tourists behaving badly. Authorities have since closed the park for the month of November for spiritual and…
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Medellin, the city of eternal spring, with its near-perfect weather all year round, makes for a pretty darned great stop while travelling to Colombia. If you’re wondering where to stay in Medellin, then I can hardly blame you from being confused, because there are just…
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There’s a lot to be said about Medellin. It’s been called so many things over the years, but most recently, thank goodness, they’re overwhelmingly positive. Words like innovative, forward-thinking, metropolitan, cosmopolitan, fashionable are now being used to describe the city. I’m not going to go…
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Oh, Manizales! You are a city of universities and young people, of coffee production and old men in cowboy hats, of delicious cakes and of long-winded histories, of mountain ranges, tall churches and delicious pastries. Tucked high in the Andes, at just over 2,000 metres…
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There are quite a lot of things to do in Salento, but one activity you just can’t leave off your list is hiking through the Cocora Valley. It is visually spectacular and great for travellers in Colombia looking to do a non-guided hike while in…
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After spending a wonderful few days in Salento, it was time for us to leave the quiet coffee town and head up to Manizales. We caught a bus from the “transport terminal” which is really just a small bus stop across the road from the…
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For some, cooking means slapping a couple of pieces of bread together in a rush and calling it a meal. For others, it’s a beautiful act of love and sharing. I’m much more of the former, unfortunately, while food blogger and culinary explorer, Simone Riddle,…
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A man peeks his head out from an opened window above a pizza shop, watching the mix of tourists and locals looking for things to do in Salento in the main square below. Waiters rush hurriedly from table to table at crowded restaurants, putting down…
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