Colombia Photo Journal

I had wanted to go to Colombia for years. One of my best friends is from Bogota and fled with her family to the US from Colombia during the 90’s, during the times of the Colombian conflicts with drug trafficking. COVID canceled my first trip, but almost a year later we were finally able to go.

I’ll be writing more about Colombia and give some more specifics, but for now, here are some of my favorite pictures that we took, organized by location.

Enjoy!

There are a lot of different ways to do this route, but this is what we chose to do:

After a TON of research, tracking of prices, and lots of factors, we made the decision to get a round-trip in and out of Medellin (living in Costa Rica at the time).

The first half of the trip we rented a car. We started in Medellin, drove south to Salento (passing Antioquia on the way), then came back up to Medellin.

After that we headed east over to Guatape, and back to Medellin.

We flew from Medellin to Santa Marta, where we started the second half of our trip, relying on public transportation.

We headed first to Minca, then slept in Tayrona National Park.

After Tayrona we took a 5 hours bus south to Cartagena and ended the last part of our trip in Cartagena, and took boats to the Rosario Islands.