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04 May 2010 ~ View Comments

Futuristic Colombian Train Travel

Futuristic Colombian Train Travel

Say there is this rural Colombian town without any roads leading to it. But there is a train track. But the town doesn’t have access to the train. What would you do to get to the town? Welcome to San Cipriano, Colombia.
The locals living there literally constructed wooden platforms and attached motorcycles on top of [...]

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04 May 2010 ~ View Comments

American Travelers

American Travelers

Travelers from certain countries usually carry some stereotypes. Some deserved and others not. For instance, any backpacker will say Israeli travelers are notorious for being arrogant, cheap, and traveling in packs. Of course there are many possible reasons for this such as English being a non-native language or most of them just finished military service.
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24 April 2010 ~ View Comments

Notes From Colombia

Notes From Colombia

I used to write down basic daily thoughts before I started having such a nice time in Colombia. At some point life got in the way so instead I will leave you with a collection of notes I wrote down during my first few weeks here.
Bogota is my favorite Colombian city partially because of La [...]

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18 April 2010 ~ View Comments

UPDATE

UPDATE

Let me update you on my status as a lot has changed since leaving Ecuador. Its very noticeable that my updates are less and less because whenever I go to Colombia I always seem to have such a great time that its hard to sacrifice my time writing. My Israeli friend Mark met me in [...]

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14 April 2010 ~ View Comments

Everybody’s An Expert on Colombia

Everybody’s An Expert on Colombia

The travelers in Colombia can make anyone who has been to Colombia for more than a few days lose their mind. I say this only because Colombia’s situation is brought up non-stop whether I am unfortunately involved in the conversation or can hear others talking about FARC, Paramilitaries, Pablo Escobar, how much the country has [...]

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