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Travel stories from Colombia

Collection of 16 travel stories from Colombia. Written by your friends on the road.

Traveler saradekker

Colombia
2008-06-18, Bogota, Colombia. By: saradekker

Bogota, Colombia Leaving the heat and humidity of Peru, we flew to the massive city of Bogota. The elevation is really high, and the drastic drop in temperature welcomed long sleeves back into our...

 
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air horns and fairy floss
2007-10-07, ipiales, Colombia. By: vorn

had a lot of fun in cartagena with the guys off the boat tis a very cool town. spent our time checking out the beautiful old town and testing out the local brews. mainly crap. went to a local socce...

 
Traveler helanus

Las Lajas
2007-02-28, Ipiales, Colombia. By: helanus

So today, Lisbed had to pop over the boarder to Tulcán to collect my paperwork that my lawyer had sent up on a bus- I can´t cross the boarder until my visa is sorted. So basically, I´ll get it all sor...

 
Picture from story Helen is cold :( but happy :)

Helen is cold :( but happy :)
2007-02-27, Ipiales, Colombia. By: helanus

VERY cold here, but is a nice city- the ppl are very friendly. Cant seem to find any T-shirts sayin Colombia much to our disappointment, but there seem to be copious amounts of Chinese figurines and b...

 
Traveler helanus

Chicas en Colombia!!!
2007-02-26, Ipiales, Colombia. By: helanus

Hey all, So here we are in Colombia- been here just under 2 hrs now. Quite excitin to b in different country an have another stamp in passport. Crossin ws easy, had to queue for a while, but ws all...

 
Picture from story Scuba Diving Columbian Style

Scuba Diving Columbian Style
2006-08-04, Cartagena, Colombia. By: aloden

Scuba diving from the small village of Taganga is touted as being close the cheapest anywhere in the world. For $35, me and Steve got two dives and a couple of hours at a private beach complete with ...

 
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Lessons Learned
2006-08-01, Tayrona National Park, Colombia. By: aloden

Granted I have a few extra month´s traveling experience on big brother, so I try my best to pass his way a few words of wisdom from time to time. Important lesson: when getting on a bus, particulari...

 
Picture from story andrew looks like a drug dealer

andrew looks like a drug dealer
2006-07-29, Cartagena, Colombia. By: aloden

or so it would appear as he was approached on five separate occasions by a private entreprenurial distribution technician (read: drug dealer). all this occurred in a span of several hours as we toure...

 
Picture from story Sorry Mom!

Sorry Mom!
2006-07-28, Cartagena, Colombia. By: aloden

For the record, I took at least 30 seconds to think about the decision. But when Steve proposed that we hop on a sailboat for five days and sail down through the Carribean to Columbia, there was noth...

 
Traveler aw80sa

End of time....in S.A.
2006-05-30, Bogota, Colombia. By: aw80sa

So....I'm pretending to be in Colombia still but in reality we are in Spain, shhh.....I tried writing one last update before leaving but the computer froze on me and messed me over royally, it was a g...

 
Traveler aw80sa

Picture of the Week!
2006-05-22, Bogota, Colombia. By: aw80sa

Did you see it? They picked one of our photos as the picture of the week. I plan on getting a few more picked as time goes by. Anyway, we are doing great, learning salsa, eating tons of oatmeal and br...

 
Picture from story Coffee and Cocaine

Coffee and Cocaine
2006-05-20, Bogota, Colombia. By: aw80sa

So we made it to Colombia with no flaws. I´ve heard all the stories but I haven´t seen any cocaine, and I´ve only seen the Nabob guy once. So far we have had no muggings or anything of the sort, but d...

 
Traveler conor_gg

COLOMBIA RULES!!
2006-05-17, Cartagena De Indias, Colombia. By: conor_gg

Hola amigos!! We love Colombia... As soon as we had our passports reissued we got on the next plane to Cartagena, on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia. And if arriving on the Caribbean wasn't enoug...

 
Traveler brooksyo

Bogota
2006-05-03, Bogota, Colombia. By: brooksyo

Hello people, Im writing you from the wonderful city of Bogota Colombia. Its a beautiful city, but this is the 2nd day of a strike by bus driver collectives against the new city transportation system...

 
Traveler viajeros

Our Friend Saad: A Human Story of Iraq
2005-05-03, Bogota, Colombia. By: viajeros

We meet so many people in our travels, and each one of them has their own stories to tell. Often we spend casual afternoons and late nights just talking about the world, its problems and possibilities...

 
Picture from story Santa Marta and Tayrona

Santa Marta and Tayrona
2005-03-30, Santa Marta, Colombia. By: viajeros

Santa Marta The somewhat sleepy and definitly hot Carribean coastal town of Santa Marta is one of Colombia’s top destinations for backpacking travelers. It’s popular not so much for its beauty than...

 


 
 

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