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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.
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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.
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South America Highlights: Launching Our FREE Ebook
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 23 January 2012
Today we are launching our first ebook South America Highlights and it’s free! We spent a year in South America exploring white sandy beaches, bug-filled jungles, snow-capped mountains and elegant colonial cities.
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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
Watch More Adventure Travel Videos An incredible display of Christmas lights / Los Alumbrados Medellín in this HD travel video from 2 Backpackers, Jason and Aracely Castellani, while visiting Medellín, Colombia during the Holidays. In travel video episode #18, we brave the splashing fountains of water and follow our Couchsurfing friend, Claudia, to the Rio [...]
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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 [...]
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Photo of the Day: Castillo de San Felipe Cartagena
Blog: Two Backpackers - 10 September 2011
During the seventeenth century, the Spanish paid for prominent European military engineers to build the fortresses which are today Cartagena’s most significant identifying features. Engineering works took well over 208 years and ended with some eleven kilometers of walls surrounding the city, including the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas shown below. In 1984, Cartagena’s [...]
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How to Sail to Colombia on a Backpackers Budget
Blog: Two Backpackers - 31 August 2011
Sailing to Colombia from Panama was one of the more exciting things we did while traveling in Central and South America. Leading up to that decision, we had a difficult time finding information on the Internet about specific boats and their captains. On the hostel sites that do book these trips, they only list the [...]
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Updates from the Field: Loan Sharks, Snapshots + “the Country with a Smile”
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 29 August 2011
Each Kiva borrower enjoys his or her own borrower profile page. We've all seen these pages: they acquaint us with the borrower's story, plans for the future, country, and a photo in their business or home. Borrower profiles present us with a clear snapshot of the ebbs and flows of a borrower's life.
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Cabo de la Vela: 24 Hours in Paradise
Blog: GoBackpacking - 24 August 2011
Cabo de la Vela is a small village on La Guajira Peninsula, Colombia.---------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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The Top 10: My favorite borrower photos from Colombia and Chile
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 23 August 2011
Kiva Fellows come from a vast variety of backgrounds, both in regards to their professional experience and hobbies. When the Kiva Fellows Program Team is trying to decide where to send people they try to decide what MFIs would benefit most from that fellow's individual experience, and also what special projects they can work on to benefit Kiva's mission and/or the MFI. As part of my fellowship i was asked to help add to Kiva's library of borrower images, which are used for marketing and communications purposes by Kiva.
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100 Greatest Travel Experiences: How Many Have We Done?
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 17 August 2011
People who hear that we plan to travel forever sometimes ask us if we’ll run out of places to visit. Now we can point them to Wanderlust’s list of 100 Greatest Travel Experiences. The British travel magazine asked readers to vote on what they consider the ultimate travel experiences, as travel is more about the [...]
