Reading Time: 13 minutes The Magdalena River is the 5th largest river in South America and the longest in Colombia stretching 1,528 km (950 miles) through the heart of
Reading Time: 10 minutes Colombia is not one of the South American countries known for its wine. It has a tropical climate and is more famous for producing coffee,
Reading Time: 7 minutes The production of Colombia avocados has grown by 600% in the last 5 years as the country begins cashing in on an international avocado boom.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chiva buses are those brightly colored open air buses you see parked outside of the markets in Colombia. These sturdy buses have been crawling over
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pijao is a small town 31 kilometers (19 miles) to the south of Armenia located in Colombia’s famous coffee triangle in the Quindio province. Along
Reading Time: 5 minutes Traveling in Colombia works up a thirst. And for those of us who like to kick back at the end of the day and enjoy
Reading Time: 5 minutes After being stuck in a cold, grey Michigan all winter for the first time in years, I finally got my second covid shot in April and
Reading Time: 7 minutes Colombia is renown for producing high end, refined, luxury coffee thanks to its near perfect growing conditions of the arabica bean. The culture of coffee
Reading Time: 10 minutes Seasoned South American travelers say Colombia is the continent’s best kept secret – beautiful, affordable and relatively undiscovered by tourism. Though large, Colombia is easy
Reading Time: 10 minutes Couldn’t be a better time to see Colombia Reading the travel guides on Ecuador – they talk about it how tourism has changed the country.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Why am I not surprised to find the most widely downloaded sites on Colombia travel raise the question: Is Colombia Safe? It’s a question I’m
Reading Time: 18 minutes There are dozens of lists on the web of tourist destinations in Colombia. Most of these lists are redundant outlining the most popular destinations nearly
Reading Time: 10 minutes Medellin (pronounced Meda-jean) Is a dynamic, contemporary, prosperous city of 2.6 million people in Antioquia, Colombia – the heart of Colombia’s famous coffee triangle. Known as
Reading Time: 6 minutes Day Tripper If you’re spending any kind of time traveling in Medellin, which is easy to do, after a couple days a get away is
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cartagena is a hot mess:On one hand it’s a vibrant beautiful port city where cruise ships also dock. It has a beautiful historic center and
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hands down the Carnival of Barranquilla is the biggest folkloric tradition and best party in Colombia with more than 2 million people participating every year.
Reading Time: 7 minutes People are divided when it comes to Colombia’s capital city of Bogota: they either love it or they hate it. A large cosmopolitan city of
Reading Time: 6 minutes Bogota I’ve been to Bogota more times than I care to count, so many times that when traveling in Colombia these days I’m doing my
Reading Time: 8 minutes Southern Colombia, while on the Pan American Highway heading to Ecuador, is often overlooked, done in a transitional hurry – a night in Cali, a
Reading Time: 7 minutes Popayan – (pronounced Popa-jan) is the capital of the department of Cauca. It is called ‘the white city’ or Ciudad Blanca due to the color
Reading Time: 5 minutes Mostly what you read and hear about the city of Cali goes something like this: Cali is hot. The people like to dance. But the
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This is a blog with over 70 articles with photos on destinations Colombia. For a traveler, Colombia is the best kept secret of the continent. It’s affordable and relatively undiscovered.
It is a country with so much to offer: history, beautiful scenery, mountains, coastlines, beaches, rainforests, abundant greenery, raging rivers, caves, sleepy colonial towns, hip, hot metropolitan cities, friendly and sophisticated people, archeological sites, excellent coffee and a wide array of fruits and vegetables to discover.
Hopefully the information provided herein will help convince the reader to visit Colombia.
– Jon McInnes