Chicamoca Canyon

Country #9: Colombia - a crazy, amazing country!

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October 12th 2017
It won’t be easy to summarize 7 weeks in Colombia in one blog and find the right words to describe the little wonder I experienced there. In spent three weeks in the burning, humid heat of the North. We danced through the nights in Cartagena and went diving in Taganga, where the Sierra Nevada influences the wildlife of the underwater world. In this village, an old woman told me stories about th ... read more

South America » Colombia » Cartagena

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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