Cuidad Perdida

Memories of a Month in Columbia

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February 15th 2008
I flew into Bogotá on a day that I would have rather been in bed, getting rid of the cold that had been plaguing me at the end of my Guatemala experience. Nevertheless I made my way from the Bogotá airport, to the Bogotá bus terminal, and promptly was on an overnight bus to Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast in the north. I arrived nice and early in Santa Marta and decided on the Hotel Famili ... 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