We have returned again to Bucerias, Mexico for a 5 week stay. This will be the 4th year in a row that we will have spent at least a month in Bucerias. Last fall I wrote a post about how we didn’t know how to answer the question- Where is your favorite place? I have…
Tag: Colombia
Medellin, Colombia
Medellin was the most dangerous city in the world not too long ago. The thought of tourists coming to visit would have been unthinkable in the 90’s. Now it is a popular place on the South American tourist route for European and American travelers. It is also becoming a favorite spot for digital nomads because…
Minca, Colombia
Sometimes we need a break from being tourist in big cities and we planned 5 days in the small town of Minca, which is quite the contrast from our stays in Bogota, Cartagena and Medellin. Minca is a small hippy town in the jungle hills above Santa Marta. There are many hostels filled with European…
Cartagena, Colombia
We were a little overwhelmed by the big city of Bogota… but not Cartagena. It is more our style. It is still a big city with a lot of high rise apartments and hotels along the beaches but we stayed mostly in the old walled city. It is an active neighborhood called Getsemani with waves…
Bogota, Colombia
We made it to Colombia! Our first week is in the capitol city of Bogota which sits at at 8500ft elevation. We had been around 5000 feet for most of our Guatemala adventures, but this new elevation still takes a bit of getting used to walking up the hills. We stayed at a $50 per…