“Colombia Travel”, “Colombia Tours”. Faster and faster, those phrases are becoming very sought after on the internet, more and more often those are words I hear from foreign friends amazed by the beauty of Colombia... and I can't help but smile. Colombia, my beautiful home country is finally on the map to be re-discovered as the astonishing travel destination it is. After living in England for a decade I decided to come back and be part of the current renaissance of my home country. After more than 50 years of convulsed history, Colombia is now a safe land, virtually untouched by foreign tourism and waiting to be developed as a major touristic destination in Latin America. I have travelled a lot around Latin America as a tour leader for an English company, I have seen many many outstanding, overwhelming landscapes, shared with a lot of great Latin American people, all of them proud of their countries and heritage, now is time for me to show Colombia to the world. Through my blog I want you to have the chance to see my beautiful and passionate country. As they very well say, when you travel to Colombia the only risk is wanting to stay!
For a full version of this post please go to our Colombia Travel Blog Hello all, Marcela here, hoping you had a great Christmas wherever in the world you are, we surely enjoyed our Colombian Christmas Traditions and the many novenas we were invited to! This is the last week of the year and here at the Colombia Travel blog we want to keep reflecting this fantastic year. In the last couple of days we have already gone through our personal top 5 top 5 posts in 2011 and our top 5 moments of 2011 , today we want to share with you our
... read moreChristmas Lights in Colombia. For a full version visit Colombia Travel Blog Is that time of the year again and I’ve been meaning to relive one of the many special Bogotan traditions: to visit Monserrate, the tallest and most well known mountain that frames the city of Bogota, by night . During December visiting Monserrate is especially beautiful because of the Christmas lights that decorate the whole mountain and the church that lies on top of the crater of our now dormant volcano that has become a symbol of our city. We just got back from a trip to the Galapagos Island and when we left the airport and started heading east I could see from far, far away how amazing Monserrate looked with all its Christmas lights which made it easier to spot from almost
... read moreThe most popular Colombia Travel Blog 2010 Entries. For a full version visit Colombia Travel Blog Hello all! It’s been more than a month since I last posted an entry in my Colombia Travel Blog, sorry about that! Just as it happened last December when I wrote about Christmas in Bogota, many many things have converged during the last weeks of this year taking me momentarily away from my blogging activities… all very good things though! One of them is that I just came back from a wonderful trip to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador that was really breathtaking and that I’ll tell you about in more detail in a coming post. I’m also in the final stages of planning yet another round trip through Colombia during January, this time focusing in the Colombian Caribbean coast,
... read moreFor a full version go to Colombia Travel Blog by Marcela Hi All! This is a short last minute post... I was reviewing my Colombia Travel Blog's traffic charts and I realized that the most sought after keyword today is "San Agustin Archaeological Park" and the Top Hidden Colombia Destinations entry the most popular one, which is strange, because what I usually get is tons of hits on the topics of "safety in Colombia", Cartagena, Medellin, "Travel to Colombia", etc... Intrigued by that fact, I researched a little more and discovered that today's Microsoft's search engine ( Bing) frontpage featured a beautiful picture of one of San Agustin Archaeological Park's statues! This is so amazing! One of the most well keeped secrets of Colombia in an extremely high traffic page!!!! , as I have said before
... read moreFor a full version go to Colombia Travel Blog by Marcela As you know, Bogota - the capital city of Colombia - is my hometown and the place where I spent most of my childhood and teens, but it was only after I returned from my 10 years living in England that I rediscovered it and learnt to enjoy this cosmopolitan yet traditional city. Here are Marcela’s Colombia Travel Blog top 5 things to do in Bogota by day, a mixture of very well know places and some little secrets from a native Bogotan with a traveler’s view: 5. Gold museum This is a must, even if you don’t like museums. The Gold Museum of Bogota is not just “another” museum. I don’t know if it is just me but I truly enjoy it because is
... read moreFor a full version with pics visit: Marcela's Colombia Travel Blog As I commented in my last Colombia Travel Blog entry, besides Colombia’s Pro Export and its very successful “The only risk is wanting to stay” campaign, there’s a lot of people out there working to improve Colombia’s image and helping turning it into the new touristic destination in Latin America. Last week I had the chance to have a chat with Camilo Gomez, Mantaraya Travel’s CEO and I want to share his very interesting points of view with you. Camilo is one of the pioneers in the online Colombia travel business and his story is one of entrepreneurship, faith in our country and determination. Camilo’s family comes from San Gil, north to Bogota and close to Bucaramanga and there was where his relation with tourism
... read more… Or being a traveler in the XXI century and many other good things that blogging brought this year. For a ful version with pics an all go to Colombia Travel Blog Hello all, Wow! It’s been already nine month since I started this Colombia Travel Blog and I think is a good time to look back and tell you about the wonderful things that have happened in my world thanks to blogging. If you’re following my blog since the very beginning , you’ll know that at first I was very hesitant to the idea of actually showing the whole world my very limited writing abilities, fortunately that was overcame by my intense desire to show Colombia as a wonderful travel destination …. And I’m so glad I did! Except for bein
... read moreFor a full version with pics visit Colombia Travel Blog by Marcela Earlier today I was looking for upcoming gigs of my favorite Colombian band, Bomba Estereo, to see if I could catch one before the year ends, and ended up - as I usually do - opening a lot of unrelated links and windows in my never ending desire to read EVERYTHING. One of those pages touched the “Safety in Colombia” topic, but what really caught my attention was the outspoken tittle “Why you should ignore everything you’ve heard and go to Colombia”. OK, this may be a sign of fate, I was avoiding the topic but here it is, in my face....the dreaded question every Colombian is asked about..... “Is it safe to travel to Colombia?”, “Is Colombia Safe?”. Well, a lot of people
... read moreFor a fullversion with pics and all please visit Colombia Travel Blog I was about to publish my fourth post about Travelling to Colombia in a month, and realized that one of the most beautiful festivals in Colombia is coming up next August. Last time I was in Medellin at the Feria de las Flores was in 2008 and my attention was inmedatly grabbed by one specific character: el silletero. Adam, from the fantastic Eyes on Colombia Blog was kind enough to share a post he did with Colombia Travel blog by Marcela's readers, explaining with great detail what a silletero is. So, if you are considering to visit Medellin or to take a Medellin Tour, you might want to save a week to enjoy the beauty of the Feria de las flores that has many
... read moreFor a fullversion with pics and all please visit Colombia Travel Blog I was about to publish my fourth post about Travelling to Colombia in a month, and realized that one of the most beautiful festivals in Colombia is coming up next August. Last time I was in Medellin at the Feria de las Flores was in 2008 and my attention was inmedatly grabbed by one specific character: el silletero. Adam, from the fantastic Eyes on Colombia Blog was kind enough to share a post he did with Colombia Travel blog by Marcela's readers, explaining with great detail what a silletero is. So, if you are considering to visit Medellin or to take a Medellin Tour, you might want to save a week to enjoy the beauty of the Feria de las flores that has many
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