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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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Parapente in San Gil
Blog: Lost World Expedition - 11 March 2011
The area around San Gil and Bucaramunga is well known for its paragliding. We even got rave reviews from our friends Les Globetrotteurs about their experience while taking a paragliding certification course in the area. Thus paragliding was on our mind when we arrived in San Gil. After a bit of research we realized the courses [...]
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A Mountain Town Worth The Trip – San Gil, Santander, Colombia
Blog: Trip Down - 1 March 2010
We drove through the deforested humid and hot coastal valley towards the mountains on highway 45 leading to Bogota. We arrived in Aguachica and spent the night as neither of us could stand being on the bike any longer and the ferocious storm showers, lightening, and broken branches on the road made it inadvisable anyway. The following [...]
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Parapentismo!
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 14 July 2009
…or Paragliding as we call it in English, which sounds much more boring to be honest. Anyway, after a few days in Villa de Leyva, next stop on our way to the coast was San Gil, a little town that is rapidly developing a reputation as the adventure sports capital of Colombia. Rock climbing, white water [...]
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Caving in the morning, Paragliding in the afternoon
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 30 March 2009
So a few days ago Uyen and I decided to be real adventurers and go spelunking in the morning followed by paragliding in the afternoon. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The caving was not quite the same level of adventure as I experienced in Guatemala, but it was still fun. It turned out Uyen [...]
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