TOP COLOMBIA TIPS

18 places to go in Colombia in 2018: By Néstor Meléndez Soler Top Colombia Tips Here it is at all its splendor, the new jewel of the international tourism circuit of the world, the beautiful Colombia. It is a wide spread secret that everybody is talking about; the new destination to visit in for vacations is this South American country that is wrongly known for its history of drugs and violence. Yes it is true, not to good news came out from Colombia years ago, and people from the world just didn’t have the guts to come and see the reality by themselves. It was very understandable. Now, Colombia is constructing peace with the leftist guerrillas and the security situation has changed in a very positive way. A peace treaty has been signed with the guerrillas Farc and peace talks are held with the other group, ELN. As a result, peace is booming in the territories and the international tourists are travelling in great numbers, to know more about “th...

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...

FANTASTIC CARTAGENA The essential old city and walls tour Chapter # 1 By: Néstor Meléndez Soler For Top Colombia Tips This article is now available as a mobile app. Go to GPS TOUR to download the app for GPS-assisted travel directions to the attractions featured in this article. https://www.gpsmycity.com/gps-tour-guides/cartagena-5045.html W elcome to Cartagena de Indias, the biggest prize in the Caribbean Sea for pirates ; it was here, in the times of the colony (1533-1819) where most of the gold, silver, emeralds and agricultural produce like potatoes, corn, tobacco or sugar, were gathered and sent to Spain 2 times a year in a huge fleet of ships. Cartagena de Indias was founded (1533 AC) in this specific location by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Heredia, because it had natural defenses to stop attackers by sea and also by land. The initial settlement was made on the terrains of a tribe called Kalamari from the Karib family . It is on the shores o...