Colombia

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!

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.

When the opportunity to partake in an Ayahuasca ceremony in the Colombian Amazon presented itself, I decided to try it and to face my inner demons. Did it change my life?

Palomino made me feel like we had stumbled upon a secluded Caribbean paradise – postcard-worthy Caribbean beaches, but no crowds and a tropical getaway for little money!