Cartagena is a city that is deeply connected to Afro-Caribbean culture. There is a significant amount of people with direct African descent and a legacy shaped by the transatlantic slave trade. This ...
Colombia is a South American country located on the northwestern coast of the continent. It borders Panama to the northwest, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, and Ecuador and Peru to the ...
Colombia is a stunning country with so much to offer – from amazing hiking trails to incredibly gorgeous white sand beaches ...
Why visit Colombia in 2026? I recently returned from ten days visiting four Colombian cities, Bogotá, Pereira, Cartagena, and ...
It’s commonly understood that the best way to explore a new place is to go straight to the locals. Each week in the Urbanist, we take that wisdom one step further by seeking out not just locals but ...
If you follow this Thursday night through Sunday night itinerary, you’ll see why Bogotá is fast becoming South America’s capital of cool. Cupped by an amphitheater of snowy Andean peaks and marked by ...
Bogota will take your breath away — perhaps literally, given its perch as one of the highest-altitude world capitals, about 8,600 feet above sea level. Up here is where Nobel laureate Gabriel García ...
This Caribbean port city boasts some of the finest Spanish colonial buildings in the world and has morphed into a cosmopolitan it destination, with the requisite top-notch restaurants, hip hotels and ...
Maybe it’s the altitude — at an elevation of nearly 9,000 feet, Bogotá is one of the highest capitals in the world — or maybe it’s the cluster of fluorescent-green peaks that serve as its dramatic ...