Quick heads-up: this post has a few affiliate links. If you book or buy through them, I earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. The easiest way to spot a tourist in Medellín or Bogotá isn’t the camera or the accent. It’s the shorts. Colombians in the big cities dress up more […]
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Some links in this post are affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Knowing what not to bring to Colombia is half of packing well. Most of the overpacking I see for Colombia comes from the same two fears: being cold and being
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Most itineraries treat Santa Marta as a bus transfer, somewhere you pass through on the way to the postcard stuff. That’s a mistake. Give it a few real days and it becomes the only base on this coast where you can hike to a waterfall, eat some of the best food in Colombia, and be
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The Walled City is one of the most walkable places in Colombia, small enough to cross on foot without much thought. But “getting around Cartagena” means more than just the walls once you factor in the airport, Bocagrande, and day trips out to the islands. This is the Cartagena-specific companion to my general Colombia transport
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Colombia’s transport options are more organized than most first-timers expect, and also more varied than “just take a taxi.” Get the basics wrong and you’ll either overpay, waste a travel day, or end up somewhere you didn’t mean to feel uneasy. Here’s what I actually use, city to city and country to country, after seven
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Cartagena gets all the attention, and it’s also the least wild part of Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Walled city, colorful balconies, cruise ships in the harbor, it’s beautiful, but if that’s where your Caribbean Colombia trip starts and ends, you’re missing the parts of this coast that actually feel like an adventure. Push north past Cartagena
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Most people treat Bogotá as a layover, a place to land, sleep off the flight, and move on to Medellín or Cartagena as fast as possible. That’s a mistake, especially if you’re planning solo travel in Bogotá. Bogotá is Colombia’s biggest city, its cultural and political center, and for most international travelers, the actual gateway
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Two weeks in Colombia feels like plenty of time until you open a map and realize how much ground there actually is to cover. Andean mountains, a Caribbean coast, a coffee region that smells like it sounds, and cities that couldn’t be more different from each other if they tried. You could spend two weeks
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Published April 2026 | By Kam | KamTravels.net The Colombia travel advisory 2026 was just updated, and every time this happens, the same thing follows: headlines go out, travel groups light up, and first-time visitors start cancelling plans to Medellín. I get it. “Level 3: Reconsider Travel” sounds serious. But if you’re reading this because
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PART 1 OF 3 Cultural missteps With solo travel to Colombia (2025) I’ll never forget the moment in Bogotá’s Paloquemao Market when I tried to haggle for avocados using my broken Spanish. The vendor, a grandmother with kind eyes, smiled patiently as I butchered the pronunciation of “aguacate”. I was also waving 5,000 pesos like