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Air Travel to Colombia
After years of civil conflict, Colombia has emerged a safe travel destination that’s attracting visitors from all over the world. With more and more direct international flights entering the country each year, Colombia’s airports are welcoming travelers with open arms. Though there are some things you should watch out for, getting into Colombia by plane is a relatively simple process.
Airports
1. Most travelers enter Colombia through the vibrant capital city of Bogota, though there are other options as well. Bogota’s El Nuevo Dorado International Airport (BOG), located eight miles east of the city, is the country’s largest airport and serves as the hub for Avianca, Colombia’s national carrier.
By far the busiest airport in Colombia, BOG features two terminals and handles both international and domestic flights on over two dozen airlines. There are smaller airports in the cities of Barranquilla, Cali, and Cartagena.
Flights and Costs
2. There are direct flights to Colombia from many major cities in the Americas and Europe, including Miami, New York, Washington, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid, and Paris. A flight from New York is approximately five hours and thirty minutes. Costs vary depend on a variety of factors including availability, airline, and time of year.
A round-trip flight to Miami usually costs around $400 to $500. The same flight coming from New York will set you back somewhere between $550 and $650. Budget airline EasyFly operates within Colombia and offers very low rates. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aug 30th, 2010
Youth Hostels in Colombia
Colombia, despite its turbulent past, has become a vacation hot spot for travelers of all types. Football fans can catch a match in almost any major city, hikers and bikers will find trails in beautiful forests or on small mountains in Bogota and Cali, and history and culture enthusiasts can explore the torrid history of Medellin, home of Pablo Escobar. With so much to see and do, accommodations can start to get expensive.
Destino Nómada
Opened in 2009, Destino Nómada is one of the newest hostels in Bogota. Centrally located in the city’s Candelaria district, Bogota’s historical center, the hostel offers easy access to many of the most popular attractions. Near the hostel are Externado and La Salle Universities, making the area a safe haven for student-aged locals and travelers.
The hostel staff has all sorts of information about the city and organizes daily activities for guests. The hostel also has an on-site bar, cafe, restaurant and mini-supermarket for your convenience and enjoyment.
Hostel facilities and amenities include kitchen, barbecue area, common area, TV room with DVD selection, games room, laundry facilities, lockers and free Internet and Wi-Fi access.
Destino Nómada
Calle 11 No 00-38
Candelaria
Bogota, Cundinamarca
Colombia, South America
011 (+57) 1 352 0932
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Aug 6th, 2010
Hotels in Manizales, Colombia
Manizales, Colombia is paradise found for many travelers, who enjoy the city crowd mixed in with a little bit of rain forest and coffee plantations.
Modern, colorful buildings marry ancient history with the older architecture of Basilica churches and sanctuaries. Visitors staying in Manizales hotel might also travel to its sister city, Chinchina, for a tour of beautiful landscapes and coffee research centers.
Hotel Bolivar Plaza
Enjoy many of the same amenities at the Hotel Bolivar that you would in an ordinary American hotel. Dine on an American breakfast each morning, hook up to the Internet with in-room wireless Internet, use the in-house business services for your printing and copying needs or visit the gym for a workout. Cable TV is also included in each room.
Hotel Bolivar is located next to the cathedral in the center of Manizales. Rooms are equipped for standard or double occupancy while additional lodgers can stay in the room for an extra fee.
Hotel Bolivar Plaza
Calle 22 No. 22-40
Manizales, Caldas
Colombia
+576-884-7777
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Jul 8th, 2010
Hotels in Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena a historical city on the northern coast of Colombia, is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the west and Cartagena Bay to the south. The popular tourist area of the city known as Bocagrande is a peninsula surrounded by beach and populated with many hotels, restaurants, clubs and shops.
Cartagena also features a walled colonial area, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Should your travels take you to this Caribbean port city, Cartagena offers several hotels from which to choose.
Hilton Cartagena
Set at the widest point of El Laguito Peninsula, the pet-friendly Hilton Cartagena offers 341 guestrooms and suites located in two tower buildings.
All accommodations feature a furnished balcony, cable television, minibar, refrigerator, coffeemaker, desk, two direct-dial telephones, high-speed wireless Internet connection, hair dryer, bathrobes and slippers.
Amenities at the Hilton include a private beach, three outdoor swimming pools, children’s pool, fitness center, sauna, full-service health and beauty spa, tennis courts, children’s club, business center and tour assistance.
The Hilton also features three on-site dining venues, poolside bar, executive lounge and 24-hour room service. Cartagena’s city center is 3 miles from the hotel. Nearby attractions include the San Fernando Fortress, Inquisition Palace and the Rafael Nunez Museum.
Hilton Cartagena
Avenida Almirante Brion Carrera 5
Cartagena, Colombia
+57-5-665-0660
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Hotel Caribe Cartagena
Surrounded by tropical gardens and palm trees, the Hotel Caribe Cartagena offers 363 guestrooms and suites spread among three buildings. Accommodations include satellite television, minibar, refrigerator, direct-dial telephone, complimentary high-speed wireless Internet connection, in-room safe, hair dryer, bathrobes and slippers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 5th, 2010
Bogota as a Capital City
The capital and largest city of Colombia is located almost in the center of the country at an altitude of 2600 m. Bogota combines a mix of traditional Colombian and Spanish colonial influences. Many historical monuments have been preserved as the Capitol City Palace and the cathedral on the main square, Plaza Bolivar. Bogotá is also home to the Gold Museum, with its unique collection of over 100 000 objects of pre-Columbian art. About 50 miles south of Bogotá lies Zipaquira, a region known for its many salt mines, one of which houses the famous Salt Cathedral (capable of containing 8,400 people). Guatavita, two hours by bus from Bogota, is known for its Laguna Guatavita, the ritual center and sacred lake Indian Muiscas.
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Mar 20th, 2010
The restaurants and bars at the Cerro de Monserrate in Bogota
I found a brochure in the house of El Cerro de Monserrate, that the summit in Caracas to Bogota as you reaches by cable car to dominate the cityscape. In this case it is also a place of pilgrimage, but for the tourist to visit the Fallen Christ is not the case, to walk up, unless you want to make the acquaintance of some street thug. With the funicular instead you can enjoy a particular landscape because, after the renewal of 2003, now the cars have the glass roof.
Above are two of the most ‘famous restaurants in Bogota: Casa San Isidro and the Casa Santa Clara, the latter preferred by the beautiful world of the capital. If you try something, rather the city and found two pages of assorted tips and comments on Poor But Happy: Classic Bogota Restaurants and Bars The best of Bogota (to avoid the bars and nightclubs in the tourist areas too dangerous or those too). Bogota is the official site of Tourism.
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Jan 12th, 2010
Accommodation and others in San Agustin in Colombia
Located in southwestern Colombia, St. Augustine is famous for being one of the bases used to visit the large number of pre-Columbian sculptures that are in the valleys of the area.
It is a quite tiny, as little as 30,000 inhabitants, with a temperature quite pleasant throughout the year, around 20 degrees and half-lives, especially in tourism revenues and the ecological and archaeological culture and the work of their land green.
The people are exceptionally friendly, as usual throughout the country “and you find many tips on San Agustin Archaeological Park and other tourist options in talks with the premises without having to go head to travel agencies that populate the streets adjacent to the town square. Once you have done you a general idea of the area and what options you want to do, and will be ready to grope prices for agencies.
As for lodging, but I think there is a small area in the hotel, I stayed in a family house. Not that I would see any guide or go with references to another person, but got out of the rickety van that brought us from Popayan bounced by more than 7 hours, the man who picked us up at the cross roads to take us to St. Augustine said the option. I went with an English couple who also were eager to go stumbling around looking for accommodation for the people-well-so I accept it rained and we ended up in the house of Louis.
Luis is a family man and lives at home with his wife, daughter and grandmother. The rooms are very new and well cared for and the price-flexible, so I could see later-is very acceptable for mid-season, 14,000 pesos a night. Although he had paid less in some places here have private bathroom and television and the truth is that the family is good people, so I decided to spend the two nights I stayed there.
The income of this type are important to many families in the area, so I would advise you that I will stay this way rather than do more established hotels. Remember that then you can help these people and it will wear you an exquisite and good conversations about the places and people you meet.
To visit around the village you can choose to do so on foot, horseback or by jeep. For the latter two will inform you of prices and so on-as I said-in the tourist offices, but usually families that host tourists usually work with specific guidelines and you will comment on the possibility of doing with them.
Many people go to St. Augustine to relax because not only is the archaeological theme but is located in a beautiful area that allows taking it and enjoying tranquility of nature and peopling.
I stayed there a couple of nights and during the third bus trip to Bogota. I discuss in the next on the lively capital city.
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Dec 5th, 2009
Transportation To Colombia
Thanks to its location at the northern tip of South America, Colombia is served by many flights, relatively cheap, from Europe and North America. Most travelers arrive at the international airport of Bogota, but airports Cartagena and San Andres also accommodate flights from abroad.
Colombia is accessible by road from Venezuela and Ecuador. Travelers wishing to cross the border through dangerous Arauca-El Amparo de Apure and Puerto Carreno, Paez Puerta to enter Venezuela have an interest in learning about the security at their embassy. In March 1995, troops were massed on either side of the border following attacks against Colombian guerrilla positions in the Venezuelan army.
The more adventurous can enter Colombia from Panama via the Darien Gap, this dangerous section of jungle which the Pan American Cup. It is a journey of two weeks, made at the company of a guide, and which requires a high degree of organization, of courage and luck. The guerrillas are active in the regions and kidnappings are not rare: it is not the kind of trip to be undertaken lightly.
You can also enter Colombia through a port on the Pacific coast or the Caribbean coast. Maritime traffic is more important on the Caribbean Sea: Many boats serving the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands and Venezuela. Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta and Turbo are the main ports of the Caribbean coast, while the Pacific coast’s main port of Buenaventura.
Colombia was the first country in South America to adopt in 1919 its own airline, SCADTA, today Avianca. Its network of domestic flights is now the densest of Latin America. Policy cielos abiertos (open skies), established by the Government in 1991, allowed the introduction of several new airlines and aircraft of all types, large jets gear most doubtful. The domestic airfares are relatively high (Avianca and SAM airlines are the most expensive), but some newly established companies offering promotional fares extremely advantageous. Remember to reconfirm your reservations at least 72 hours in advance and expect to numerous contingencies regarding schedules. The tax on domestic flights is 5 USD.
Primary mode of transportation to travel within the country, buses have the advantage of being economic, efficient and offer a very extensive network. However, with the exception of trunk roads are in a catastrophic state. In cities, buses are slow and crowded, better opt for taxis are cheap and accept long commutes.
Besides the bus, there are also chivas (an old wooden bus, traveling mostly on small roads) and collectivos (taxis used for fixed routes).
There is no rail network and travel by its own means (by car or motorbike) is a solution to expensive and dangerous.
Maritime traffic, especially along the Pacific coast, no road dessert is irregular and only rudimentary.
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Nov 7th, 2009
Relax at Restaurant in Bogota
Fifteen years, a few thousand sunsets and provide dozens of murals and give flight to one of the most emblematic places in Bogota. We refer, of course, the Coffee Shop. Located north of Bogota in the traditional neighborhood of Usaquen, this beautiful three-story restaurant has made its flag and uncertainty unmistakable. The variety of spaces and decorative styles make this beautiful corner in place for any time of day and any mood.
Here you can enjoy from jazz festival, beautiful sunsets can be viewed from the balconies open to Usaquen park. The letter is neat in grilled meats, arepas and tostones, but each time frame of the day is marked by specific specialties.
Along with its walls decorated with original murals, the waiter serves cappuccinos, aguadepanelas (typical based beverage Colombian sugar cane) and chocolates, or if you prefer, the Carajillo Punishment, a haunting combination of peach juice, passion fruit and grenadine.
On weekends, the brunch has been established (combining breakfast and lunch) idle without specific time and a background suggestive of Cuban music.
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Oct 21st, 2009
Choosing a Good Hotel in Bogota Colombia
When we are traveling to a city it is highly important have a good accommodation that helps us to have a nice holydays or business trip. In Bogota –which is the capital city in Colombia- you can find several hotels and most of them are specially prepared for businessmen as well as diverse famous personalities and people.
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Some of the hotels you can find in Bogota are luxury ones that start from $120 per night per person. I have seen a wonderful hotel in Colombia Bogota which is located near to the convention center –at least 10 miles near the convention center- this is La Fontana Hotel and is located in a very exclusive place in Colombia, Bogota.
Hotel Almitante in Bogota Colombia
There are other famous hotels in this city such as Melia Santa Fe, Hotel Almirante, Sofitel and the Bogota Plaza Summit Hotel. All these hotels have bar included, music and different nightly activities. One of the most important things you can do for choosing a good hotel in Bogota is booking online in one of them before taking your flight to Colombia.
Bogota Plaza Summit Hotel in Bogota, Colombia
As matter as fact, is good you to ask to customer service in the hotel about diverse options you have there and all the benefits you can receive from them.
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Aug 30th, 2009