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South America » Colombia
May 8th 2009

Published: May 25th 2009

Cocaine. Kidnapping. Guerillas. Guns. Murder. This is what usually spings to mind when people think of Colombia. When planning our trip, many friends and family were worried we would travel to Colombia. The capital Bogota is seen as a forbidden city, no one in their right mind goes there. Some though us nuts! Yet we heard nothing but good reports about the country from travellers who had just vi... Read Full Entry

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Jess and James

OneWaySupertramp

Setting off with one way tickets to Mexico via Cuba (a two-month detour), we set ourselves the challenge of travelling through Central and South America down to the southern tip of Argentina by bus/train/boat. We wrote and photographed all our adventures, discoveries and passions - food and football, people and pictures, wildlife and walking, books and buildings, mountains and music. We promise you won't read a boring day-to-day diary, just interesting tales from the road. Plus for our friends with itchy feet, real backpacking tips direct from the backpack. Hasta luego! Jess and Jam... full info

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Las Lajas

Inside Las Lajas church

The end wall behind the altar is actually the rock face from the mountain where The Virgen Mary appeared.

26th May 2009

Joy
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Fabulous photos, James and Jess.

27th May 2009

LILI PERON
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GREAT PICTURES
U CAPTURE BEAUTIFIL VIEWS OF COLOMBIA U ARE MISSING A PICTURE OF A COLOMBIAN PERSON WITH TREIR BEAUTIFUL WELCOMING SMILE

28th May 2009

OneWaySupertramp
Jess and James

Thanks for the comments on the photos, we just hope they did the country justice. As for a smiles...we have many many wonderful memories of friendly Colombian smiles. It´s just that sometimes people feel uncomfortable when there is a tourist with a camera in their face so we don´t take photos in those circumstances. But we will never forget the Colombianos. From Jess and James

31st August 2009

maria
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thanks
hey when i started reading it, i said, another bad view about my country . sorry I was wrong, i want to thank you 'cos you are making change about Colombia, for almost everybody this is just the house of the drugs . thanks because you took the risk to travel to Colombia and now you know what Colombia means... COLOMBIA IS PASSION!!!! we have a country full of creativity, development, Art, the most beautiful flowers in the world,largest number of species on birds and frogs in the world,3rd country in biodiversity, 14000 species of butterflies and many other things.. once again thanks

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