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By the time we’d arrived in Santa Marta, my partner, Pej, and I had been travelling around Colombia for three weeks. We’d stayed in budget hostels with lukewarm “air-conditioning”, walked our way across Manizales and back again, we’d lugged our backpacks through sleepy towns, we’d…
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On a recent trip to Colombia we only allocated around three days in Cartagena and just one day to explore the Rosario Islands. The first time I visited the Rosario Islands I had an amazing time. I stayed a few nights on Playa Blanca with…
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Image: David Skankbone/Flickr Santa Marta, Cartagena and San Andres, they’re the sorts of places people generally go when in search of some great beaches in Colombia. But there are so, so many more. Here are 10 beautiful beaches in Colombia you should put on your…
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“The next time we come stand up paddle boarding, we’re going to have to make more of an effort to look sexy,” I called out to my boyfriend, wearing a life jacket, an oversized t-shirt and a pair of shorts I’d just bought from a…
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I posted a picture on my instagram the other day from a trip I took to Santa Marta last year. The sunsets on this side of the Caribbean are golden with pangs of orange, just begging to be photographed. I had visited Santa Marta before,…
Continue readingPower on. POWER ON!! Nothing. I looked at the black, lifeless screen of my smartphone – It was dead. I tried charging it, I removed the battery, I shook it around and looked at it with pleading eyes. Nothing worked. What was I going to…
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Apart from burning to a crisp and sipping cocktails in your own private shaded banana lounge, there is quite a bit to do on the island of San Andres. I got used to island life during my four-day visit and here’s what I suggest travellers…
Continue readingI am a self-proclaimed beach bum. Get me to a beach, with warm weather and calm waters, and I am pretty excitable. I have seen many a beach in my time too, but one of the most beautiful beaches I have seen was in San…
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