Ever have the burning desire to shoot shaving cream in a 10 year old kid’s face while simultaneously getting a handful of talc powder thrown in yours? Welcome to White’s Day at Pasto’s Carnaval de Negros y Blancos! The Carnival takes place annually in the beginning of January, and we were pretty pumped when […]
After spending our first few weeks on the coast, and my Michigan blood boiling from all the hot days and air conditon-less nights (well, some of them), we headed south to the mountains. After a couple memorable days learning about the country’s history and transformation in Medellín, we continued south to Salento. One of […]
Eating is easily one of the best things about traveling. Exploring restaurants, unusual street food, and ordering something that you don’t know what the hell it is are always some of my favorite undertakings while abroad. With Colombia being a huge country filled with many different regions, there has been no shortage of culinary […]
Caribbean Colombia is hot. Really, really hot. It took us all of 2 nights to decide we were going to pay up the extra few bucks a night for air conditioning in our room. We wanted to ease into our trip, so the Caribbean seemed like the perfect place to start. We flew into […]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our family to yours from Barichara, Colombia!
This was not exactly how we expected to start our trip. Sweating like a pig, stomping up and down 65⁰ muddy mountain inclines, stomachs twisting in cramps, and with 3 more days of this laying ahead. When we first decided to start our adventure in Colombia we wanted to begin with a trek to […]