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Hola from Medellin!

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September 10th 2008
Hola from Medellin! This past week has been a crazy one! It started on a not so positive note with me getting food poisoning. Well it could have been anything really - a stomach bug, something I caught off one of the kids at Antorchas or being bitten by some strange Colombian insect! Either way, I was out of action for nearly 3 days. Apparently it's a so called 'right of passage' that everyone go ... read more

South America » Colombia

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more