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October 2023
A 15-day adventure by KZKgoesglobal Read more
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  • KZKgoesglobalColombia
    Day 2

    Cartagena

    October 14, 2023 in Colombia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    📍Cartagena, Colombia

    "Hot, humid, and happening." Señor Watt's description of Cartagena, and he's not wrong! We're well and truly into the tropics now, and the heat hit us like a wall off the plane. After saying for weeks that I love hot weather, I lost my battle to the humidity and fell asleep for 3 hours in the room this afternoon. Rookie error.

    When not napping, we've been exploring the town and all its colourful streets. There's music and aircon pumping out everywhere, street vendors on every corner (we risked it for a biscuit with a few market juices today, yum) and a real Carribean feel around, which feels so different to the rest of South America. It's the kind of place that makes you want to stay out a bit later and push the 6pm curfew we seem to have self-imposed when travelling. It's everything I hoped it would be and more after wanting to come here for so long!

    We've got one more day here to wander round, then we're going up to Tayrona National Park to dust off the swimming cossie.    Read more

  • KZKgoesglobalColombia
    Day 4

    Tayrona National Park

    October 16, 2023 in Colombia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    📍Tayrona National Park, Colombia

    The goggles were well and truly out for this beautiful beach in Tayrona National Park, as was the cracking tans we've been working on.... 🙃

    We swithered about coming here at all and started to get confused about where was best to go to make the most of our time in the country. But in the end, we got FOMO about missing Colombia's biggest tourist attraction and booked in. It's home to indigenous people who live in the park, and we visited on the second last day of the season before they close for a few weeks to protect the environment so we were lucky with our timing. Overall, we enjoyed our visit, but it was an extremely sweaty walk in the humidity to get there, so we were knackered by the end. It was also my second time ever swimming in the Carribean Sea, which is literally like having a warm bath - bliss. I'd say worth the trip just for this!Read more

  • KZKgoesglobalColombia
    Day 10

    Valle del Cococa, Salento

    October 22, 2023 in Colombia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    📍Valle del Cocora, Salento, Colombia

    *Ticks seeing tall palm trees off the bucket list*

    We put Salento on our travel map so we could visit this palm tree valley, and now we're finally here! If you'd asked me before I came where I was most excited to visit, I would have said this place. And we did love our hike to get here, but I found walking at altitude again pretty hard and the 22 degrees pretty cold after the heat of the coast. Yes, woe betide the travellers. But really, still a fab day and Salento itself is a pretty wee colonial town famous for coffee nationally, with loads of lush greenery surrounding it. In fact, we're going on a coffee tour tomorrow just to cement our status as Edinburgh coffee snobs when we get back. OH, and we thiiink those are the famous Andean condors flying around above us which is a real highlight!Read more

  • KZKgoesglobalColombia
    Day 11

    Coffee tour

    October 23, 2023 in Colombia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    📍El Ocaso, Salento, Colombia

    Coffee lovers eat your heart out. Went on a wee tour this morning learning all about the different types of coffee beans and processes in Colombia and worldwide. Like real-life wild Thornberrys, we got to explore to hunt for ripe beans and pick our own. Did you know the smell from dried coffee is called 'fragrance' and from wet coffee it's called 'aroma'? Yep, cool fun fact, and I think it means our transition to coffee snobs is officially complete.Read more

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    Day 16

    Medellín

    October 28, 2023 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    📍Medellín, Colombia

    Rounding off our 6th country with a wee visit to busy and bustling Medellín, where I was cajoled into going to a local football game tour. And let me tell you, the fans were absolutely MENTAL. We're talking non-stop chants, hanging off the stands, only holding onto their homemade flags, and jumping on the seats for the whole game. Meanwhile, we literally got dumped at a convenience store for our pre-drinks and drank shots out a carton with 40 other gringos before going along with our face paint 😅

    But the highlight for me was visiting Comuna 13, once the world's second most dangerous place with 3.1 murders a day. It's now so colourful and buzzy with music and performers everywhere. A real Latin feel and it definitely sums up the spirit of Medellín.

    And that's a wrap on Colombia. Honestly, I loved Cartagena here, but other than that I surprised myself as other countries topped it for me in terms of friendly locals, weather, food, and scenery... even though it was the country I wanted to visit the most! Saying that though, the coffee (and matching coffee merch I forced on Adam) was a win.    Read more

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