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Pssst! Want a cheap trip? $99 one-way flights to Colombia!
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
Summing up Colombia: lessons I learned plus odds and ends
(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
A box of big ass ants for sale in San Gil, Colombia
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
Is Colombia dangerous?
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
The Things I Love About Colombia
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
Barichara Barcelona, 2 weeks gone
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
Sicker than sick in Villa de Leyva
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
Bogota, Colombia
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
