A detour on an Antioquian road reveals a region suspicious of outsiders, yet willing to guide you out of darkness.
Being a parent in a foreign land offers benefits such as hearing your children speak in tongues. Being bilingual in childhood changes brains forever.
Isla Fuerte is the least known and lesser visited of Colombia’s Caribbean islands, perhaps because of its location off the coast of Cordoba, 200 kilometers north of the main tourist hotspots of Cartagena and the Rosario Isles. Not that it is particularly hard to get to. In fact the 11-kilometer voyage from the mainland by […]
The Alto Baudo? in the heart of the Choco?may be inhospitable to reach, but is steeped in rich inter-oceanic history.
The best-selling novel by Italian journalist Roberto Saviano is a compelling tale of the Colombian cocaine connection with a complicit global finance industry.
At 2,640 meters (8,660 feet) above sea level, Bogotá can throw travelers for a loop, but don’t let the high altitude get you down.
Cut off from most of Colombia by miles of impenetrable forest, tides and tusnamis Tumaco is an isolated Pacific “pearl.”
Steve Hide takes on the vlogging trend after a famous YouTuber crashed Bogotá’s FILBo book fair over the weekend.
Colombia is having a Zika outbreak, but the country offers plenty of stunning destinations well above the Zika line, where mosquitos dare not fly.
For clues in the fight against Zika, Colombia looks back at another Latin American epidemic spread by the same mosquito.
For a lush, mountainous hiking escape just a few miles and a world away from Bogotá, take a trek from Tena to Bojacá.
Giant sloths and other mega-mammals were kings of Colombia until they met their deadliest predators yet: humans.
Travel writer Steve Hide ventures overland on a new road which unites Villavicencio with the capital of Guaviare.
Can an ancient form of therapy become accepted as an alternative form of wound healing? A Colombian doctor wants maggots back in medicine.
Swedish traveler Jan Philip Braunisch ventured into the Darien Gap on an adventure which would end in tragedy.
Old mule tracks and a giant basalt rock are some of the attractions of Guatapé, Antioquia.