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Colombia Holiday with Christmas Lights – Travel Video Ep. 18

By on December 21, 2011 ]

Watch More Adventure Travel Videos An incredible display of Christmas lights / Los Alumbrados Medellín in this HD travel video from 2 Backpackers, Jason and Aracely Castellani, while visiting Medellín, Colombia during the Holidays.  In travel video episode #18, we brave the splashing fountains of water and follow our Couchsurfing friend, Claudia, to the Rio [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day: Flying Heron at Tayrona Beach in Colombia

By on September 14, 2011 ]

In Tayrona National Park, an hour outside Santa Marta, Colombia, Jason and I were hiking to Cabo Beach. We both had camera in hand capturing all the beauty of these beaches during our Colombia travel.  I spotted a heron at the back of the beach near the woods.  I got my camera ready to take a [...]

Pictures of Colombia

Travel Photo of the Day: Castillo de San Felipe Cartagena Colombia

By on September 10, 2011 ]

During the seventeenth century, the Spanish paid for prominent European military engineers to build the fortresses which are today Cartagena’s most significant identifying features. Engineering works took well over 208 years and ended with some eleven kilometers of walls surrounding the city, including the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas shown below. In 1984, Cartagena’s [...]

Sailing to Panama

Sailing to Colombia on a Backpackers Budget

By on August 31, 2011 ]

Sailing to Colombia from Panama was one of the more exciting things we did while traveling in Central and South America. Leading up to that decision, we had a difficult time finding information on the Internet about specific boats and their captains. On the hostel sites that do book these trips, they only list the [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day: Hummingbird in Colombia

By on August 6, 2011 ]

The beautiful glowing green hummingbird was seen flying around bird feeders in near Salento, Colombia during our hike through Valle de Cocora. Read more about Colombia Travel.

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Colombia Travel – Coffee Junkies

By on April 25, 2011 ]

Peter and Dalene of Hecktic Travels share facts of the preconceived notion that Colombia travel means good coffee. Colombia Travel & Colombia Coffee Good coffee is synonymous with Colombia and for that reason, we couldn’t wait for our turn at Colombia travel. We visualized Juan Valdez walking casually beside his donkey, an amiable smile on his [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day: Plaza Cisneros Medellin, Colombia

By on March 30, 2011 ]

Learn more about Colombia travel, is it for you? In the travel photo, we share Plaza Cisneros, which is located in central Medellin. It is a jungle of light posts 24 meters in height; there are 300 reflection mirrors (7 per each tower) and 170 grounded lights. These elements are mixed with bamboo and water [...]

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Colombia Travel – Hiking Ciudad Perdida (Lost City)

By on October 18, 2010 ]

Kristin of Coffee Calculations & Colombia shares her exciting hike to Colombia’s Lost City, Ciudad Perdida. Within one month of my decision to move to Cali, Colombia, I knew I wanted to hike to Ciudad Perdida.  I found a friend who wanted to do the 5 night, 6 day jungle trek with me, we planned [...]