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Playing Tejo: The Colombian Sport of Throwing Rocks at Gunpowder
Playing tejo is a popular pastime amongst Colombia’s working class, involving pucks, gunpowder, and optionally, beer drinking and vallenato music.
San Gil: Colombia’s Adventure Capital
San Gil has been dubbed the adventure capital of Colombia, thanks to a variety of outdoor activities including: whitewater rafting, kayaking, caving, hiking, paragliding, mountain biking, and horseback riding. In…
6 Tourist-Friendly Destinations in Colombia
After quite a long time of being off the travel radar, Colombia is back in the game. There are few countries that have the mix of attractions that Colombia has. Stunning rainforests, metropolitan cities, idyllic…
Exploring Colombia: 5 New Places I Want to Visit in 2013
Now that I’ve committed to Colombia for the first three months of 2013, I’ve been thinking about the new places I want to visit most next year. Believe it or not, there’s still a ton of places I have yet to explore in…
San Gil, Chicamocha and Barichara
Writer’s note: This is part two of a two-part story. Click here to read part one. SAN GIL, Santander — The two-lane road winds through the Cordillera Oriental mountain range and climbs toward what has to be one of the…
The Hostel Life Hits Colombia
The Hostel Life is a new web-based show, and their pilot episode was shot along the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The first video is dedicated to Carnaval in Colombia — skip ahead a few minutes to get past the overall…