Blogs from Quindío, Colombia, South America - page 4

15 mai 2012 : Lever à 8h00. La voiture que nous avons réservée la veille arrive à 8h05. Le GPS ne fonctionne pas. Nous passons récupérer la maman de Socorro à la pension puis sa cousine et une de ses amies qui seront les infirmières qui s'occuperont de la maman de Socorro. Nous perdons un peu de temps à Cali pour récupérer un GPS qui fonctionne. Nous quittons finalement Cali à 11h30 direction la "Vallée del Cauca". Nous nous arrêtons à 14h00 pour manger une "Parillada Especial" délicieuse (136 000 pesos pour cinq personne). Nous repartons et prenons une belle route à péage (22 500 pesos). Nous arrivons à l'hôtel que nous avions réservée depuis la France , une ancienne Finca (ferme) appelée "LA TATA". La Finca est superbe et quasiment déserte à cette époque de ... read more

Colombie, Colombie, Colombie! Que dire de ce pays si merveilleux avec des gens tout aussi merveilleux!Depuis le départ de Phil, j'ai parcouru plusieurs endroits et pris part a plusieurs aventures! Tout d'abord, j'ai eu droit à 3 jours de pluie à Bogota, la capitale de Colombie. Je n'ai donc malheureusement pas pu monter au Montserrate, point du haut de la montagne où l'on peut observer un panoramique de la ville. 'ai donc fait le tour des musées dont le fameux musée de l'or, car la Colombie fut un lieu très convoités pour ses ressources naturelles, notamment l'or. Petite parenthèse concernant ces ressources. L'histoire du drapeau de Colombie (plus grande partie en jaune, 2 autres parties en bleu marin et en rouge) vient de deux théories différentes. La première du fait que la Colombie contient des grandes ... read more

We arrived in Salento late at night following two flights (Cartagena – Bogota, Bogota – Armenia) and a very very fast taxi ride without seatbelts. Salento is a small town of about 4000 people in the coffee growing area of Colombia. Most of the buildings in the town, including our hotel (Ciudad de Segorbe), are built in the traditional paisa style giving it a really quaint look. The town is surrounded by rolling hills and gorgeous scenery which makes it a lovely place to spend a few days. On the first morning we headed down for breakfast before chatting with one of the lovely guys from our hotel about what we were planning to do while in Salento and getting his recommendations…all in Spanish. The only part of the conversation I didn’t understand, even with his ... read more

The Colombian chapter of our South American adventure got off to a very slow start. Slow is an understatement, we didn't move for 2 whole hours at the border. There as no explanation forthcoming but the queue for immigration didn't move an inch. It turns out the staff we taking it in turns to work, rather than all working at once. Crazy. We been on the road from northern Ecuador since 8am, and didn't make it in to Colombia until gone 2pm...it was less than 150km to travel. To compound the misery once across the border there were no buses travelling to our preferred desitination (Popayan), well none that would arrive at a feasible time and we had to change plans and head to Cali, arriving at 6am. This probably ranks as the worst journey for ... read more

I want to invite you all to know the coffee, in Quindio, Colombia. It's spectacular, besides that everything revolves around nature and coffee. It is best to stay in country hotels are very nice alluding to the region. What a delight to be in contact with butterflies in the Butterfly of Quindio and coffee plantations and banana. It was wonderful to be a coffee picker and truly understand the culture of coffee in Recuca and National Park Coffee ... On this trip I had last year discovered that coffee is traditionally home we leave the "trash" of coffee, since the rest goes for export, is really rich to enjoy a 100% pure coffee, super rich climate is rather cold but very rich. The national ... read more