The travel books warn you. The travel websites warn you. Signs in broken English taped to the back of rusting bathroom doors in bus stations warn you. Fellow travelers warn you over bad instant coffee in hostel kitchens. If we were staying at the Hilton, I’m sure they would give you glossy tri-fold pamphlets with […]
Travelling through South America conjures up a fair amount of advice from your fellow travellers. Most of it is inevitably cautionary: “Oh, you’re going to Colombia by bus, watch out,” “Starfish Beach? Well, the starfish are nice, but the prickly things they eat are all over the beach and get stuck in your feet. They […]
Medellin is, by all means, a modern city. After we overcame the intial shock of the sheer beauty of the city’s placement, within and along a valley and river amongst the Andes, it is Medellin’s level of urban development that hovered in the forefront of our minds. And it is Medellin’s history of urban development […]
Our next venture into Colombia landed us in Bucaramanga, Diego’s hometown. Bucaramanga is nestled into a plateau within the Colombian Andes, and by all accounts seems an idyllic place to grow up. Bucaramanga’s climate hovers at 72 degrees year-round, and the city is internationally renown for its vast array of parks (one of which Diego […]
Bogota has much to offer visiting tourists. Parks? Some of the biggest in Colombia. Religious sanctuaries? How about a monastery atop a mountain, accessible only by a cable car naturally. Museums, colonial architecture, some of the worst traffic in the world, fine dining, a sprawling University system, botanical garden, and night clubs? You bet, it’s […]
We’ve awoken from our Colombian coma ready to fill you in on our Gran Paseo de Colombia. After El Ano Nuevo, Diego made a last minute change in the plans: “This really makes no sense, but yesterday I decided we should go to the town where I was born, Manizales.” We were previously headed to […]
It has been a while since we last checked in, but here is an attempt to recap how we spent New Year’s Eve in Colombia. After a six-day stint in Cartagena, we were ready to set off to Medellin, where we would get to meet up with Diego, meet his fiance and family for the […]
Well, it’s been a while since we last posted. But not because we’ve been out of the Internet matrix or macheteing our way through the jungle. Nope. We’ve been lucky enough to be touring all of Colombia with our good Colombian friend, Diego, who is getting married in Medellin this Saturday. But instead of relaxing […]
Feliz NaviBLAH SouthAmerWeCan readers! As the name of our blog implies, this trip is primarily intended to be a tour of South America. Look kids!, Machu Picchu, Igauzu Falls, the Bolivian salt flats, drug rugs!, etc. you get the picture. However, we thought it would be a good idea to practice our Spanish a bit […]
