Posts Tagged ‘vacations’

Top 10 Travel Destinations

September 21st, 2009
Top 10 Travel Destinations

Are you a travel fanatic? If the answer is yes, then here are the top 10 travel destinations you should consider visiting this year and a few reasons why.

Colombia: a place you just have to visit, with its plenty of momentum, friendly people, Colombia has a natural beauty and a country that is fun and safe to explore.

The coastal Caribbean city of Cartagena has great tourist infrastructure mixed with its colonial arch » Read more: Top 10 Travel Destinations

Public Transport in Bogota

September 19th, 2009
Public Transport in Bogota

During the 1980s and 1990s, Bogota had a dismal reputation in the international media, due in large part to its murder rate, which was one of the highest in the region. Thanks to new government policies and massive policing efforts, Bogota’s crime rate has dropped 70 percent and the city is today considered safer than Washington, D.C., Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City.

Bogota offers an eclectic blend of modernity and history, wi » Read more: Public Transport in Bogota

Deep Inside Colombia- Crossing The Andes with a Surfboard

May 6th, 2009
Deep Inside Colombia- Crossing The Andes with a Surfboard

I’ll never forget the look on the face of that Colombian campesino man. My wife just explained to him in Spanish that what I am holding under my arm is indeed a surfboard, despite the fact that we were standing in a Colombian village that was located somewhere in the middle of the Andes Mountains, hundreds of miles away from any ocean. After hearing this news the man made a joke about us getting bad directions. He then flashed a smile that rev » Read more: Deep Inside Colombia- Crossing The Andes with a Surfboard