street performers in Cartagena

Colombia is great!

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March 22nd 2012
Can you even believe we’re in Colombia already! It seems like time flies faster and faster every time I write to you. Amelia and I couldn’t wait to get here when we heard about how green the country was, because that meant we would have lots of trees to play in. Besides, I just found out some of my family moved here and we get to go visit them a little later on. We first flew into a city c ... 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