Colombia

This week’s Polaroid features Colombia’s stunning Tayrona National Park, which stretches along the Caribbean, offering pristine beaches and jungle hikes.

One of the highlights of my travels through Colombia: the 4-day jungle trek to Teyuna, Colombia’s Ciudad Perdida.. the fabled lost city of the Tayrona people.

A visit to Colombia’s coffee region and the beautiful Valle De Cocora was something I’d been looking forward to for a long time – and this week I finally made it to Salento, a small town in the heart of the zona cafetera.

I spent eight days exploring Colombia’s Amazonas region – a week filled with swimming in the Amazon, spotting pink river dolphins, an Ayahuasca ceremony, and much more…

I’d been wanting to visit Medellin for years, and now I finally made it to Colombia’s second city. Read on to find out what I got up to in Fernando Botero’s hometown!

In my monthly round-ups, I am looking back at my travels over the past four weeks, what went well and what didn’t, and what’s next for me.

Bogotá doesn’t have the best reputation – the more surprised was I when I arrived in Colombia’s capital and discovered that it’s actually a pretty cool city!

The place I was most excited to visit in Colombia – after Las Lajas – was Cali, the Salsa Capital of the world. But I found so much more there than salsa…

I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect introduction to Colombia than Cartagena. I was captivated instantly by the colorful Spanish colonial port town with its exotic Latin charisma.

The 5-day hike to Colombia’s Lost City, or Ciudad Perdida, through the jungle and the Sierra Nevada mountains, is one of South America’s most spectacular treks.