In this tough time when our economies have been severely affected you should have the option to save money while you can keep your traditions to take a vacation along your family. One of the most amazing options you can evaluate is travel to Colombia during your next vacations to South America. Colombia is one of the great touristic attractions of this part of the world having amazing beaches, great mountains, beautiful and modern hotels as well as beautiful women.
People in Colombia are very kind and I am completely sure that for your next vacations you could choose one of the amazing and affordable vacation’s packages that include hotel during 8 nights, flight tickets and transportation services. Traveling to Colombia during your next vacation is going to help you to relax a lot and enjoy of the Colombian lifestyle where everything is party, music and beach.
One of my best recommendations about that is you make a good plan so that you can get the most out of traveling to Colombia. A financial plan is very relevant before take a good decision. That’s why it is important that you make a good research in Internet about those vacation plans to Colombia and which are the things those plans are offering to you that are planning to travel alone, or perhaps with your girlfriend, friends or family.
One the other hand, you must know that Colombia is one of the best places of South America to practice all kind of water sports and if you love that, you can evaluate those hotels that are in the Pacific of Colombia that have included in the packages this kind of tourism. Planning your next vacations to Colombia is an amazing experience that you will never forget. Make a good plan, based on a good research and travel to Colombia in your next vacations.
Colombia Tourism
For many years serious internal armed conflict deterred tourists from visiting Colombia, with official travel advisories warning against travel to the country. However in recent years numbers have risen sharply, thanks to improvements in security resulting from President Álvaro Uribe’s “democratic security” strategy, which has included significant increases in military strength and police presence throughout the country and pushed rebel groups further away from the major cities, highways and tourist sites likely to attract international visitors.
Foreign tourist visits were predicted to have risen from 0.5 million in 2003 to 1.3 million in 2007, while Lonely Planet picked Colombia as one of their top ten world destinations for 2006. The improvements in the country’s security were recognised in November 2008 with a revision of the travel advice on Colombia issued by the British Foreign Office.
Popular tourist attractions include the historic Candelaria district of central Bogotá, the walled city and beaches of Cartagena, the colonial towns of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Popayan, Villa de Leyva and Santa Cruz de Mompox, and the Las Lajas Cathedral and the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá.
Tourists are also drawn to Colombia’s numerous festivals, including Medellín’s Festival of the Flowers, the Barranquilla Carnival, the Carnival of Blacks and Whites in Pasto and the Ibero-American Theater Festival in Bogotá. Meanwhile, because of the improved security, Caribbean cruise ships now stop at Cartagena and Santa Marta.
The great variety in geography, flora and fauna across Colombia has also resulted in the development of an ecotourist industry, concentrated in the country’s national parks. Popular ecotourist destinations include: along the Caribbean coast, the Tayrona National Natural Park in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range and Cabo de la Vela on the tip of the Guajira Peninsula; the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, the Cocora valley and the Tatacoa Desert in the central Andean region; Amacayacu National Park in the Amazon River basin; and the Pacific islands of Malpelo and Gorgona. Colombia is home to seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
