Showing posts with the label Colombia

La Catedral: Pablo Escobar’s Personal Prison

Jul 19, 2023

By 1991, Pablo Escobar had undergone a remarkable journey, starting as a car thief and then evolving into a small-time trafficker and kidnap...

Santa Cruz Del Islote: A Crowded Utopia

Feb 6, 2017

Santa Cruz del Islote is a tiny coral island, and one of the smallest, in the archipelago of San Bernardo off the coast of Colombia. It is o...

Yipao: Colombia’s Bizarre Jeep Parade

Dec 19, 2015

The Jeep is Colombia’s most iconic mode of transportation, especially in the coffee growing regions where farming is an integral part of lif...

Casa Terracota: The Clay House

Nov 23, 2015

This misshapen adobe colored house, located in Villa de Leyva, a colonial mountain village 95 miles north of Bogota, Colombia, was built by ...

The Glittering Gold Museum in Bogota

Sep 7, 2015

The Gold Museum in Bogota is one of Columbia’s most important museums with an extraordinary collection of Pre Hispanic gold work on display....

Hacienda Nápoles: The Home of a Former Drug Lord, Now a Theme Park

Sep 4, 2015

About 180 km south-east of Medellin, is Puerto Triunfo, a small municipality and town in the department of Antioquia. It was here that Colom...

The Awkward Mud Bath at El Totumo Mud Volcano

Apr 8, 2015

El Totumo Mud Volcano is located in northern Colombia in the municipality of Santa Catalina, about 50 km northeast of Cartagena. The volcani...

Massive Outdoor Escalator in Comuna 13, Medellin

Mar 21, 2015

The neighborhood of Comuna 13, located on the periphery of Medellin, the second-largest city in Colombia, is one of the poorest section of t...

The Rock of Guatapé

Jan 6, 2014

La Piedra Del Peñol , Spanish for "The Rock of Guatapé", also known as El Peñol Stone or simply as La Piedra is a massive rock l...

Cocora Valley: The Valley of Palms

Jul 18, 2013

Wax palms or palma de cera is Colombia’s national tree and the world’s tallest palms. These palms grow exclusively in the high-altitude val...

Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira

Apr 3, 2013

The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a ...

Cano Cristales: The River of Five Colors

Oct 23, 2011

The Cano Cristales is a river of Colombia located in the Sierra de la Macarena. For most of the year, Cano Cristales is indistinguishable fr...