TOP COLOMBIA TIPS

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...

TOP COLOMBIA TIPS Ferias  y  Fiestas de Colombia para gozar y disfrutar. Periodista: Néstor Meléndez Soler Para Top Colombia Tips Hay quienes dicen que Colombia es uno de los países del mundo que más ferias, fiestas, carnavales, eventos y celebraciones tiene en el mundo. Y es que en mi hermoso país es obligación divertirse en comunidad. Absolutamente todos los pueblos del país tienen Ferias y Fiestas y en todas las alcaldías del país hay una oficina dedicada a este menester de celebrar la vida y exaltar los valores típicos de cada comunidad. Esto podría comprobarse científicamente pero no vamos a llegar allá, lo que si vamos a hacer es a contarles en las próximas líneas algunas de las más importantes y divertidas de toda Colombia. Obviamente se me van a quedar muchas por fuera, pero tranquilos, informaremos en próximos blogs las que he dejado de mencionar en esta entrega. Estas son los Top Colombia Tips de las más  importantes ferias...

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...