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THE CLASSICAL RESTAURANTS OF CARTAGENA ARE NOW A GPS TRAVEL ARTICLE:

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TOP COLOMBIA TIPS The Classical Cartagena de Indias restaurants featured in a GPS guided travel article: Cartagena de Indias, the top Colombia´s touristic destination is now another site of the world to offer GPS travel articles thru GPSMycity . A GPS-guided travel article mixes important information and a location guided map to make the tourist very well informed about the site and the place where is located. It also serves to guide the tourist thru a route that will give the very best info and coordinates of the specific location. An app to guide you by the best classical restaurants of Cartagena de Indias, the top tourism Colombia´s destination is available to   the public of App Store and Google Play. For this week (6/11 to 6/18) only, you can receive free of charge this wonderful guide thru the best classical restaurants of Cartagena de Indias guided by GPS. This is a an article that will introduce you into the gastronomy that has marked this port s...

5 TOP COLOMBIA TIPS ON MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA

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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 ...
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LOS 5 JUGOS QUE DEBE PROBAR EN: COLOMBIA. Colombia es un país de frutas , las hay tropicales, andinas, de selva y exóticas; la variedad es tan extensa que escoger solo 5 jugos es una difícil labor. Y es que en un país tan biodiverso, los visitantes y turistas pueden quedar sorprendidos y anonadados, ante la gran oferta de jugos que le pueden ofrecer en las fruterías, restaurantes, plazas de mercado o en cualquier esquina. Estoy seguro que van a quedar muchos por fuera de este pequeño listado, pero esta es, a mi parecer, la lista esencial de: los jugos que usted tiene que tomar en Colombia. 1.      LULO: Es tan rico que los hombres cuando ven una hermosa mujer dicen, “está como un lulo” . Y es que el jugo de lulo es una delicia universal . Es una fruta originaria de Ecuador y Colombia, su nombre científico es Solanum Quitoense , y en Ecuador le llaman naranjilla. El nombre lulo es precolombino y viene del Quechua, el lenguaje ancestra...

5 FOODS YOU MUST HAVE IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA

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5 Foods you have to eat in Bogotá, Colombia: When people are traveling, the best recommendation a travel expert can give, is to have local food. That way, by tasting the flavors that locals eat, the travelers can better perceive the culture and get further understanding of the people. At Bogotá, Colombia , you have to go for this exquisite dishes, recommended by generations of bogotanos and tested positively, by many foreigners. These are my top 5 foods for Bogotá, and a bonus : 1-)       AJIACO The ajiaco is a chicken and three kinds of native potatoes, (sabanera, pastusa criolla) soup, that is just a chicken and potatoes soup until a miracle happens. That miracle grows in the Sabana, the extended plain up in the Andes mountains at 2.640 meters above sea level ( 8.661 ft) where Bogotá is located. The secret herb that makes the soup an ajiaco is the Guasca , it radically changes the flavor of the mixed potatoes and chicken ...

LAS 5 COMIDAS QUE HAY QUE PROBAR EN: CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA

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5 COMIDAS QUE USTED TIENE QUE COMER EN… CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA: Por: Néstor Meléndez Hola, si usted es un buen viajero, sabe por experiencia que una parte del viaje consiste del descubrimiento gastronómico, que se hace de los sitios que se visitan. Probar los platos locales lo hacen sentirse más cercano al lugar y a la gente que lo habita. Es por eso que   hice esta lista, con las 5 comidas que tiene que comer, si visita a Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. 1-      Arepa de huevo. La arepa de huevo es una arepa de masa de maíz en forma de disco, que se frita y en un instánte de inspiración, de verdadero realismo mágico, es rellenada por un huequito que se abre para que pase un huevo . Luego se reinserta en el aceite y se logra la deliciosa unión del maíz con el huevo.  Las nuevas versiones le añaden otras proteínas, como carne, pollo, cerdo, chorizo, chicharrón…son un desayuno perfecto, que no va a encontrar en Mac Donalds . Y no solo es pa...