Filed under: North America , South America , United States , Colombia On February 1, LAN Colombia will celebrate the airline's inaugural flight to the United States when it touches down at Miami International Airport from Bogota. The event will be marked by a water cannon salute and will be ...
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Filed under: South America , Colombia , Caribbean Everything about Bogota , Colombia's capital of culture, cuisine and Cumbia , begs for further exploration. From the rough-around-the-edges street art of colonial-tinged 'hood Candelaria , to the fabulous golden Pre-Columbian artifacts at the Museo del Oro , to the buzzing coffee bars of Zona...
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Cartagena has been a popular Caribbean cruise port for years, but it's truly become a destination in its own right—and a perfect place to get a taste of Colombia all in one stop.
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Colombia is the only country in South America with coasts on both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. However, if you say “I’m going to the coast” in Colombia, it invariably means the Atlantic coast. Whether it’s living it up in Cartagena, basking ...
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The author tells of the journey of a lifetime down the Andes, from the tropics of Venezuela to the icy tip of Patagonia The Andes fascinated me long before I got to see them. I had been brought up on the Andean tales of my...
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I’ve been writing the Real Travel column in every issue of National Geographic Traveler for almost ten years–long before the magazine (and my column) made the move online . I thought it would be fun to re-visit some of those older, print-only columns from time to time, here on...
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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...
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By Rachael Jackson After a week-long trip to Cartagena , the walled Colombian city whose brightly colored colonial mansions often house fashionable boutiques and hotels, I was stumped by how to sum up the food. Sure there are the staples: arepas (thick tortilla-like ...
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Filed under: Africa , Asia , Europe , North America , South America , Zambia , Cambodia , China , Indonesia , Japan , Laos , Sri Lanka , Syria , Vietnam , France , Italy , Netherlands , Portugal , United Kingdom , Canada , Cuba , United States , Argentina ,...
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CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA – Colombia’s crown jewel on the Caribbean coast, Cartagena is a city that sings a siren song, luring travelers to its shores and then seducing them into staying…or at least returning. I spent a month here
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