ABTA Includes Colombia in its Holiday Hot Spots for 2008

The prestigious Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA), included Colombia in its Holiday Hot Spots list for 2008. The other countries are China, Australia, Abu Dhabi, Botswana and Israel. The Agency said that Colombia has become a very popular tourist detination and it is supposed that by year 2008 it will have a golden [...]

Colombia in the six top destinations of National Geographic for 2008

Sihanoukville — ColPas (Picture “Medellin downtown in the night” by Wooden). Things like these were unthinkable ten years ago. Tourist guides used to put aside Colombia in the Latin America destinations. It was too risky. But now, National Geographic in its National Adventure, features Colombia as one of its six top destinations for 2008. “Discover why [...]

Cultural soul of Colombia

Spared the worst of the nation’s drug crime, Cartagena is a great beauty with a colonial past. And it’s a city with a vibrant street life.
By Reed Johnson, Times Staff Writer
September 11, 2005
IN the old days, this was a swell place to be a pirate and a terrible place to be a witch. That was [...]