President Juan Manuel Santos said that the goal for the next four years is to triple the number of visitors to Colombia’s national parks. “We need the support of the private sector to build and equip access to trails and tourist facilities,” he said. “We will promote a new Tourism Policy of Nature in all its [...]
The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón reported that the National Government’s goal over the next four years is to create 250 thousand new jobs in the tourism sector. This was announced Monday during the celebration of Tourism, which took place at the Marriot Hotel in Bogota, Colombia. President Santos said that to stimulate the growth of [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on March 23, 2008 in the New York Times. A Cultural Heart Beats Anew By KATHRYN JEZER-MORTON LA CANDELARIA, Bogotá’s oldest neighborhood, sits along the foothills that hem in the city’s east side. A warren of one-way streets lined with Spanish colonial stucco [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 15, 2010 in the New York Times. By ERIC RAYMAN Published May 25, 2008 WITH its cocaine days in the past, the Colombian seaport of Cartagena has emerged as the belle of the ball. This tropical city on the Caribbean is [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 15, 2010 in the New York Times. On the Colombian Coast, Natural Beauty, Gritty Charm By LIONEL BEEHNER IT’S not called the Parque de Los Novios — Park of the Newlyweds — for nothing. Young couples lock arms as they stroll [...]
Somewhere along the continuum from drug-cartel central to tourism and business paradise, a city must gain its first candy-colored boutique hotel. For Cali, that time is now. More precisely, it’s NOW, the 19-room property that opened in January. Designed by the architect Sandra Freiye, who owns it with her husband, NOW (which stands for “Not [...]
The rocks of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta—the highest coastal mountain on Earth—tell a fascinating tale: The mountain collides and then separates from former super-continents. Volcanoes are born and die. The mountain travels from Peru to northern Colombia and finally rotates in a clockwise direction to open up an entirely new geological basin. Smithsonian [...]
The military helicopter takes off at dawn. A soldier in camouflage gear sits at its open door, directing a machine gun at the tropical scene below. We are travelling from the Colombia Caribbean resort of Santa Marta to an indigenous village in the jungle-covered mountains behind. For a while we hover over a stretch of [...]
