Colombia
- Population: 45.6 million (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Bogota
- Area: 1.14 million sq km (440,831 sq miles)
- Major language: Spanish
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 69 years (men), 75 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Colombian peso = 100 centavos
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Colombia Travel Guide Online
Colombia probably doesn’t top most people’s list of vacation spots. With Amazon jungle, forest-covered mountains, beautiful women and Caribbean beaches it ought to but there’s a small snag: ...
Medellin, Don't Give Papaya
Medellin is a city with a small town feeling to it. The outlying neighbourhoods climb the slopes on each side of the valley basin and when I get lost at ...
Money - Fast, Easy and in Cash in Colombia
Poor Colombians. As if half a century of civil war, cocaine lords and kidnapping wasn’t enough, they now have to contend with investment fraud. Like the Albanians in ...
Medellin, Colombia - Everyone's Dream Holiday
The trouble with writing about all the danger, the drug abuse and the misery produced by the war is that it makes Medellin sound like a terrible place. Make no ...
Colombia Escape Story
The day I arrived in Panama City I met some guys organizing a boat expedition to the Colombian North Coast- the only sane way into Colombia without flying. They were ...
Colombia Civil War
Colombia has been at war with itself for more than fifty years and most people seem to have forgotten why. Whereas in somewhere like Israel everyone talks about the ...
Colombia, Paradise of Patriots
I’ve never understood patriotism. It’s always seemed to me the seed for hatred, violence and war. To take pride in one’s own country is a short step away from taking ...
Medellin, Colombia - Paradise on Earth
“Never say anything bad about Medellin to a local here. They think it’s paradise on earth. And never say anything against the Catholic religion either. They think it’s the best ...
Kidnapping in Colombia
In jest kidnapping has been called Latin America’s fastest growing industry. While there’s nothing funny about it for the victims of their families it cannot be denied as something of ...
Dating Colombian Girls & Guys
Catholicism doesn’t get in the way too much of having a good time in Colombia
. It’s a modern country and full of life though it’s traditional to get ...
Parque Tyrona Colombia Travel Story
Parque Tayrona, a national park, the perfect retreat from Cartagena
, this is the place where Steve McQueen fell in love with the Guajira Indians after he escaped whilst ...
Colombia Travel News
- Single Lovers Offered Holidays in South America for Valentine's Day - Holiday News
- Take off and smell the coffee - TravelMole
- Oscar Morales: 'How I used Facebook to protest against Farc' - Metro
- Haiti Aid Summit May Cool Tensions Among South American Leaders - BusinessWeek
- The Top Destinations of The Year - Here Is The City
