Who says there are no travel bargains anymore? Who? I want names! Listen to this: to promote a new route starting in May, JetBlue is flying from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Bogota, Colombia for $99 one way or $228 round … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Colombia
(As always, my generalizations are based on a whiff of a shred of a morsel of evidence.) -Don’t bargain for a haircut in Colombia. I learned this the first time I was here, and I looked scalped. This time I … Continue reading
These are the hands of a guy selling big ass ants on the street corner. Yes, these ants have wings. He explained why they don’t fly away, but I couldn’t grasp what he was saying. It was hard to concentrate … Continue reading
For travelers already in the country, this conversation makes everyone’s eyes roll with impatience, simply because if you were too scared to come, you wouldn’t be here. Travelers are sometimes surprised at how normal everything is in Colombia, how straightforward … Continue reading
This foot isn’t one of them. It belongs to British Eric, who is also at Sam’s VIP Hostel as he conducts his website business selling shishas: shishahookah.co.uk. Give it a click just to demonstrate what kind of clicking power kentfoster.com’s … Continue reading
I doubt I have ever stayed at a hostel for a whole week. I am not such a youth hostel fan and I am too restless to stay anywhere for too long, but it was a perfect storm of events … Continue reading
I got crazy sick from eating or drinking something bad. I don’t suppose I need to go into great detail about it, but it had the telltale symptom of having a rotten egg/sulphurous smell every time I burped. The staff … Continue reading
This is my 4th time in Colombia and 5th in South America. I was last in Colombia just one year ago. I stayed with a CouchSurfing host, Mauricio. He already had a young German traveler visiting, Mark, so I am … Continue reading