From Cartagena we took the small flight to Medellín. Medellin after it’s traumatic history back in the 1980/90s is a definite highlight on any trip to Colombia, seeing how the city has recovered from its …
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Colombia 2022 – Bogotá
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After the hiatus of the pandemic, the world is beginning to open up and we decided to gently return to international travel by returning to Colombia, a country we last visited in 2018. We made …
Continue readingBogotá- Gold and Graffiti
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After some 82 days in Brazil, we returned to Colombia for the final leg of our journey and complete the journey down the Magdalena Valley to the coast which we could not fit in our …
Continue readingMedellín – A City Reborn
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Medellín is a city with an infamous reputation and when we first visited Colombia back in 1989 it was simply too dangerous to visit as it was the epicentre of Pablo Escobar’s drug cartel. Since …
Continue readingBogotá – Botero and Street Art
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The second half of our journey started with a 24 hour stop over in Bogotá, this time accompanied by the younger members of the family. Our flight from London was on one of Avianca’s modern …
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