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Shacking up in Medellin

The botanical garden in Medellin is a meeting grounds for ambassadors representing all walks of life. I met up with a gang of about fifteen people from couchsurfing.com. One of them, Justin had prepared several vegan pizzas, a pasta, and cookies to share with all. Others passed beers and...

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chaddeal on March 1, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

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Dag 96 - 98: Tayrona

Tayrona National Park

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HikingViking on February 28, 2009 from Santa Marta, Colombia

from the travel blog: World Tour 2008/09

Medellin is Rainy and Cool

The cold eclipse of my sour mood quickly passed as I strolled the wet streets of Medellin. The city is large and sprawling, prone towards light midday showers and brick architecture, which creeps up vegetated mountainsides in beautiful, chaotic avenues. Medellin resembles Portland, Oregon in...

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chaddeal on February 26, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia

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Mama Ron en Carnavales

It is difficult to relate the absolute hysteria of Carnaval in Barranquilla. Most nations couldn't handle an equal event without soon collapsing into a frenzied state of all out warfare. But Barranquilla does it, and does it well - pushing all possible boundaries of all out...

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chaddeal on February 25, 2009 from Barranquilla, Colombia

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Dag 94 - 95: Taganga

champions league

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HikingViking on February 25, 2009 from Taganga, Colombia

from the travel blog: World Tour 2008/09

Dag 89 - 93: Barranquilla

Karneval.....................

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HikingViking on February 24, 2009 from Barranquilla, Colombia

from the travel blog: World Tour 2008/09

Ciudad Perdida

The bus rolled up at 9am sharp, multi-colored and blasting insane Colombian carnaval tunes. The contraption was half psychedelic hippy bus, half wild animal park tour vehicle. I expected to find Neal Cassady at the wheel, raving mad in a off-beige safari hat. We loaded up - Ruby, Daniel,...

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chaddeal on February 24, 2009 from Ciudad Perdida, Colombia

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Taganga - Welcome to the Mothership

Colombia is in a state of anxious frenzy in these final moment before Carnaval. Gaggles of shirtless youths swarm the streets on bicycles by the hundreds, whooping and whistling, slapping taxi windows. A full samba band plays at top volume in the middle of a supermarket, heralding the advent...

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chaddeal on February 14, 2009 from Taganga, Colombia

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Colombia - The Only Danger is You´ll Never Want to Sleep

Well, shoot me now. The Great Work is done. My first mission was a failure - finding gringo John in Pavones. That one couldn´t be helped. My second mission, rock climbing in Boquete, was prevented by foul weather. My third mission, however, semi-secret and occult in nature, was a...

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chaddeal on February 10, 2009 from Cartagena, Colombia

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