Imagine enjoying the fresh air in an immense park with an incredible palace in Flemish Gothic style on one side, modern buildings on the other, and a train running through the elevated highways of the city. You are in Plaza de Botero and you are...
With a population of almost four million, the capital of the Cauca Valley is also among the top three urban, economic and cultural centers of Colombia. Do you know what destination we are talking about? We’ll give you more clues: it is usually called La...
Medellin has recently been named one of the ten coolest cities in the world, according to Forbes magazine. And we know what cool means: that there won’t be a lack of fun things to do and enjoy: trendy restaurants, great clubs to dance the night...
We have already told you about the musical spirit of Bogota, a city where music is present almost anywhere. You also know about Cartagena, worth a trip from the Colombian capital. We have even told you about the Eco Yoga Festival to relax...
Today we propose a unique experience in Colombia, more specifically in a place whose name evokes the thrill of adventure: the Amazon. For this, we will travel to Amacayacu, near the Amazon River, and visit one of the country’s best known natural parks, located in...
Stretch and stre-e-e-e-tch again. Breathe in. Breath out. Once again, the most renown yearly yoga, ecology and healthy habits event in Latin America, comes to Bogotá, this time with eight stages and a truly impressive set up. Seeking to make the capital of Colombia a more...
Have you travelled to Colombia for your studies and still haven’t visited Arvi Park? Then you don’t know what you’ve been missing! Why do we say that? Here are four reasons why: Nature. Arvi Park is an ecotourism reserve accessible from Medellin by Metrocable. Did you know that this...
While international visitors to Colombia have been continuing to discover quaint Cartagena, as well as the dynamic cities of Medellín and Bogotá, one spot the Colombians themselves consider an under-the-radar gem is Cartagena's Caribbean-coast neighbour a bit over four hours' drive to the east: Santa Marta. Nowadays a city of nearly a...
Quite a few cities around the world have their signature annual festivals: Carnival in Rio, Venice and elsewhere; Munich's Oktoberfest; and the Halloween, St. Patrick's Day, and Thanksgiving parades of New York City, for example. For Colombia's second-largest city it's a particularly unique one: the summertime's wonderfully colourful Festival de las Flores. Yes, in...
Some two hours north of Medellín, one of Latin America's hot destinations of the moment, is a nature reserve consisting of more than 34,000 hectares of páramo - moorland composed of grasslands, mosses, lichens, and lowlying shrubs and small trees, sometimes mixed with wetlands, up between 2,400 and...
