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 – Caribbean Coast
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From Bucaramanga we took the bus North to Mompos. The journey took most of the day, though once we were out of the mountain valley, the road improved immeasurably. Mompos is situated on the Magdalena …
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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 …
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For our final week in Brazil we decided to explore more of the heartlands of Mina Gerais State, which is home to a number of Brazil’s architecturally important colonial towns and much mineral and agricultural …
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 …
Continue readingValparaíso – Funiculars and Street Art
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Valparaíso, Chile’s most enigmatic city, sits on the Pacific Ocean and grew up as a key centre of the international shipping business, however it went into decline following the opening of the Panama Canal which …
Continue readingMontevideo – Enlightened Capital City
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We left Punta del Este in a massive downpour and the weather on the journey was not great so we could not see a great deal of the countryside on the way. The bus arrived …
Continue readingSão Paulo – Cemeteries and Graffiti
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Sao Paulo, like many South American Cities, has a number of large cemeteries with some massive family vaults and mausoleums, which are well used today. Many of the vaults are clearly a statement of wealth …
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