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Mud, glorious mud – Volcán El Totumo, near Cartagena, Colombia
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 1 May 2012
As I lower myself gingerly into the molten ooze, a pair of hands pushes me down further. But rather than sink into the mud never to return, I pop straight back up again like a cork. It’s not every day you get to slop about in a mud-filled volcano, but Volcán El Totumo, a mud [...]
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Update from the Field: Group Loans, Barriers to Microfinance + How to Visit a Borrower
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 9 April 2012
Compiled by Chris Paci | KF16 & KF17 | Ukraine As regular readers of Kiva Stories from the Field will know, it’s not always easy to extend microfinance services to the people who need them most. Aside from the usual barriers - poor infrastructure that makes it difficult to connect borrowers with an MFI, the difficulty [...]
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Photo of the Week: Giant Wax Palms in Salento, Colombia
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 March 2012
One of our favourite destinations in Colombia was the quiet mountain village of Salento in the coffee region. We trekked for hours along muddy paths up steep trails and on our way back were rewarded with an up close look of the giant wax palms in the Valle de Cocora. It was a cloudy, rainy [...]
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Update From The Field: Finding Epiphanies, Sharing Wisdom + Standing Up to Sassy Nigerian Mamas
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 19 March 2012
Compiled by Chris Paci | KF16 & KF17 | Azerbaijan The 17th class of Kiva Fellows was turned loose into the field on January 27th, nearly two months ago – and how long ago it seems! By this point, our intrepid fellows are really starting to get the hang of their placements, forming routines, powering through their [...]
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Empanadas
Blog: the reX-Files.ca - 14 February 2012
Buenos dias from the Caribbean coast of Columbia and the city of Santa Marta. We arrived yesterday morning after a rather terrifying (I thought) overnight bus ride through the mountains. Randy seemed calm through it all, but… he did not
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Hola nos amigos
Blog: the reX-Files.ca - 10 February 2012
The mother-in-law travel series returns with Monika and Randy taking a 5-week trip to Columbia and Ecuador. It is Friday night in San Gil, Colombia and the village square is loud, alive and crawling with people. It is a warm
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Palenque: The African Heart of Colombia
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 8 February 2012
An hour’s bus journey south from Cartagena bus terminal (which itself takes an hour to get to from the centre of Cartagena) lies San Basilio de Palenque, a small village of 3,000 people descended from African slaves. Much of the coast in Colombia in fact has a large population of African descendants, but Palenque is [...]
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Academic Nonceties
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 3 February 2012
I was under the impression that Oscar Guardiola-Rivera must be an interesting guy. He has written a book entitled What If Latin America Ruled The World?, regularly attends talks about South American culture in London, and was now appearing at the Hay Festival in Cartagena. In reality, his talk followed the same path as his [...]
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Medellin to Cartagena by Bus
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 3 February 2012
The big talking point on this bus journey was whether I should have gone at all. I was told nothing would be happening on the last night at Discos Fuentes for the Ondatrópica guys, just tidying up, that kind of thing. So I booked an overnight bus to Cartagena. No point wasting 13 hours of [...]
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Ondatropica in Medellin
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 3 February 2012
So the reason I came straight to Medellin was to catch what I could of Ondatrópica, a new project featuring Colombian musicians old and new, a “tropical” exchange of ideas. The project is headed by Will “Quantic” Holland, a British producer, and Mario Galeano Toro of the ridiculously good Frente Cumbiero. In total they recorded [...]
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Medellin At Night
Blog: On The Road to Find Out - 2 February 2012
At night Medellin is covered in God’s sparkly dandruff:
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A Digital Nomad Budget: One Year in South America
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 27 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights, it’s South America Week on Never Ending Voyage. We’ve compiled the favourite destinations on the continent of 31 experienced travellers and today we share exactly how much we spent during our one year in South America. We began our new life as digital nomads [...]
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The Best of South America Part 2: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights we asked other travel bloggers to share their favourite places and experiences on the continent. In Part 1 we heard their top tips for Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil and now in Part 2 we move on to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. For exhilarating [...]
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South America Highlights: Launching Our FREE Ebook
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 23 January 2012
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Amazon Kindle eBook Reader Cover – The Anti Theft Version!
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 20 January 2012
Funny Amazon Kindle eBook Reader Cover! The Amazon Kindle eBook Reader has been selling like hotcakes since it was released. The Amazon Kindle is like a device that can store a...
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How We Find Apartments Around the World
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 19 January 2012
View from our apartment in Medellin, Colombia. We may be travelling permanently but this doesn’t mean we spend all our time in hostels and hotels. Living in hotels may seem a glamourous life but it gets old fast. After a while we crave a couch, reliable internet and a kitchen so we don’t have to [...]
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AIRES, LAN and Flights To and From Colombia
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 3 January 2012
One of the big questions which arises with all travellers between Central and South America involves… well, getting between Central and South America. Making that leap. As previously mentioned, I hadn’t thought further ahead than Mexico when I started travelling from the top of Central America downwards, and realising in Nicaragua that it wasn’t going [...]
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Never Ending Voyage Best Posts of 2011
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 29 December 2011
As 2011 is almost at an end we took a look back at which posts have been most popular on Never Ending Voyage this year. Our most popular posts from 2010 are still going strong and worth a look as early on we shared useful tips on getting started as long term travellers or digital [...]
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My Travel & Business Year in Review
Blog: GoBackpacking - 28 December 2011
his year passed in the blink of an eye. Or at least that’s how it feels looking back. I’m lucky enough to say I’ve done exactly what I wanted to do, and had a great time doing it. This year had its share of low points too, however by surviving them all, they only served to [...]--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, 12 expert audio interviews, private support forum, and much more.
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Photo of the Week: Medellin Christmas Display
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 December 2011
Christmas this year is being spent with friends in sunny Chiang Mai, Thailand. As always it’s hard to feel like Christmas when it’s 30 degrees and you have no oven to cook all the traditional Christmas food.
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Colombia Holiday with Christmas Lights – Travel Video Ep. 18
Blog: Two Backpackers - 21 December 2011
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Facades of Cartagena – a photo story
Blog: Sophie's World - 2 November 2011
The girls and I recently sailed through the Panama Canal and stopped – all too briefly – in the beautiful, beautiful Colombian city of Cartagena. Strolling through the lively old city, I was struck by the vibrant colours of the colonial architecture. Seemed to go well with the sultry heat, too. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee [...]Facades of Cartagena – a photo story is a post from Sophie's World
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Zipaquirá: the Underground Salt Cathedral
Blog: Twenty-Something Travel - 30 October 2011
Zipaquirá is a small city about 35 miles out of Bogota. It’s a really popular day trip for visitors, and not just because it’s an absolutely lovely city: The main attraction here isn’t the beautiful church or the old town. It’s actually what’s happening below the surface that people care about. You see, Zipaquirá has had [...]
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Monserrate: High Above the City
Blog: Twenty-Something Travel - 11 October 2011
It was one of those spontaneous Sunday afternoon plans. We were having a leisurely brunch with our new friend Marcela and JL. As travel bloggers and Bogotaños, they were eager to show us the city and it’s charms. Since it was a rare sunny day, Marcela suggested we head to Monserrate, the mountain that towers [...]
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Photo of the Day: Flying Heron at Tayrona Beach in Colombia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 15 September 2011
In Tayrona National Park, an hour outside Santa Marta, Colombia, Jason and I were hiking to Cabo Beach. We both had camera in hand capturing all the beauty of these Colombia beaches. I spotted a heron at the back of the beach near the woods. I got my camera ready to take a picture. It [...]
