TOP COLOMBIA TIPS

  CARTAGENA DE INDIAS:  "INTO THE WALLS OF THE CITY" Walk with this TripAdvisor  GPS audio-tour by the plazas and streets of Cartagena de Indias. Start at the Torre del Reloj, learn about the walls, bastions, events like the suffering of black enslaved Africans, the legacy of Saint Peter Claver, see where the Inquisición Española ruled, feel and know places that inspired Gabriel García Márquez to do his literature. Know about the corners, the spaces and the magic of the fantastic corralito de piedra (stone corral) as is also known. Feel the city like a local and walk with confidence guided by the  GPS with your own device and headphones. T he tour is ready whenever you are. It plays audio automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline. Perfect for the “I don’t like to look like a tourist” kind of people. Start the Voicemap GPS audio tour at “La Torre del Reloj...

TOP COLOMBIA TIPS 5 GPS WALKING TOURS IN COLOMBIA, JUST BYOD : BYOD means “ bring your own device ” and in Colombia you can use your mobile to do GPS tours at Bogotá and Cartagena de Indias. It is a new trend for worldwide touristic destinations, to use the technology of GPS already loaded on the mobiles of the tourists, to deliver stories thru the location aware system that is available with no data need all around the planet. Now with the GPS and the App technology tourists can download a city tour, a museum guidance, bike rides, and many other uses with their own phone. I want to share with you my stories of Bogotá (founded in 1538), the city where I was born and some of the history related to the sites where we will go in the tour. There are 3 Bogotá GPS audio-tours that will guide you by the capital of Colombia, a city where almost 10 million people lives. Colonial Bogotá, La Candelaria Edit route by  Néstor Meléndez...

5 TOP COLOMBIA TIPS  AND A BONUS: MEDELLÍN THE CITY WITH AN ETERNAL SPRING by: Néstor Meléndez Soler Medellín, Colombia is a city that keeps on blossoming all the time despite the turbulent recent history of drugs, crime and violence. Not even when the Cartél de Medellín, ruled by the infamous Pablo Escobar tried to overtake Colombia the city surrendered and kept on going forward. Today is one of the most attractive cities in the South-American travel circuit and I am going to tell you why in my Top Colombia Tips. Come to Medellín and live the city of the eternal spring. This are the 5 places you have to go when coming to the capital of the department of Antioquia in Colombia. 1.   PLAZA BOTERO: At Plaza Botero be prepared to walk into immense sculptures made by the local artist Fernando Botero , one of the most important plastic artists of the world. And yes, the sculptures are humongous; the trademark of the artist are the oversized ...

This is the history of one man that gave it all for the African slaves that came to Cartagena.   Peter Claver called “The Slave of Slaves”, lived at Cartagena de Indias, in the first half of the 17 th century. African descendants from all around the world give eternal tribute to this saint that lived to his motive of serving human beings, motored by God. Cartagena de Indias was from the 1500s till late 1800s the preeminent slave Spanish port in the Caribbean and where the biggest human slave trade happened. There were only 2 ports authorized by the kingdom of Spain to receive Portuguese slave ships sailing from Africa. Those were Veracruz, in the territory of The Nueva España, or how we know it today, Mexico and Cartagena de Indias in the Nueva Granada, today Colombia.   The number one “legal” slave port market was Cartagena by far. More than double of the blacks that were slaved and imported “legally” by Spain to America, set foot for the f...