Taganga: Friendly ‘pirates’
We all know that Colombia is shedding its undeserved stigma and opening up to international tourism, and nowhere is this more apparent than the Caribbean fishing village of Taganga. How awful! you cry, a magical part of the Colombian coast ravaged by hedonistic foreigners in the mold of a Thai island! But that isn’t so. Whilst its magnetism for backpackers More...
Colombian Village An Expat Paradise
In the lap of the Andes, Colombia’s Villa de Leyva is poised to be the next Antigua, Guatemala, attracting travelers from Latin America, Europe, and, most recently, the U.S. If you tell a Colombian you are More...
Colombia: Some things don’t change much, including Catholicism
Photo by the author taken of Bogotá from the mountains to the North East By Mario Salazar / Washington Times – Visiting Colombia, one of the most Catholic countries in the world, after a few years is a More...
Colombia: A library carved in stone
This statue, which was discovered on top of El Purutal, is one of the few that retains the paint used by its sculptors. (Juan Carlos Rocha for Infosurhoy.com) SAN AUGUSTÍN, Colombia – About 1,000 years More...
Colombia Travel: Visiting With Children
Duncan Carroll-Ireton feeds pigeons outside the Church of San Pedro Claver (1654), Cartagena. Photograph by: Photo by Joni Carroll My wife, our two boys, and I are riding a state-of-the-art gondola up the side of More...
10 things to know before visiting Colombia
Country moves past its darker past By Justin Calderon for CNN / There was a time when few travelers visited Colombia, when the country was synonymous with drug lords, when the only English you heard on the streets More...
40 Life Lessons We’ve Learnt From Living in Colombia (Part 2)
21. Local knowledge is a real thing. In London it rains a lot, but barring some ridiculously dark clouds, I can’t predict when. Yet every Bogotano knows exactly when it is going to rain. If you have ever heard More...
40 Life Lessons We’ve Learnt From Living in Colombia (Part 1)
1. How to spell the name of the country. It’s a good start! 2. There is more to a country than what you find in a guide book. One of the great things about Colombia is that there are so many towns, villages and More...
Tourism in Colombia: Tiding The Magic
“Magical realism” will be familiar to many as the Latin American 20th century literary movement perhaps most typified by Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez and his international bestseller, One Hundred More...
A Charming, Low-Cost Lifestyle in Colombia
A tamales vendor rides through town blasting his sales pitch over a bullhorn, zipping past rings of children playing marbles on the sidewalk. An old woman sits in a doorway enjoying the cool breeze, as smitten teenagers More...
