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Armenia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Armenia, Belize
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In the coffee zone.
This is a top pick! We have traveled a few hours further south in bus along the beautiful road between Medellin and Pereira. Pereira is Johana's hometown and a lot of her family still lives here, so we will lodge at her sister's place and use the city as a base for ...
Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya.
This is a top pick! Pereira, La Suiza, Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya and Parque Regional Natural ...
Adventures in the Coffee Region
This is a top pick! ... about in Spanish and English! This is one of the most beautiful areas of Colombia and it would be easy to spend more time here but I managed to drag myself away today and headed off to look around the nearby town of Armenia before I head South to ...
Welcome, Christmas!
This is a top pick! It´s officially the Christmas season in Colombia! On our last night in Medellin, we learned that there was going to be an event in one of the main squares downtown, in the late afternoon and early evening. John and I headed down, expecting ...
Highland Adventures
This is a top pick! When we arrived in Salento Tuesday, John and I were headed to the main hostel in town when a woman came to ask if we were looking for accomodation. This has happened several times to us before, and we typically end up in a much more economical ...
Coffee Country
So far the coffee in South America has been suprisingly average (Nescafe). So we were excited to be going to the heart of the Zona Cafeteria in the middle of Colombia to see how its really done... Well turns out its pretty basic! The lovely hostel we ...
Palm trees and mountains
hello. i am now in a town in La Zona Cafetera de Colomba called Salento, which is about 9 hours from bogota by bus. the rest of my time in bogota was really cool. by far my favorite part of town was downtown, the old part of the city. very typical ...
Salento Salento Salento
i left bogota a week ago thinking i was going to explore the whole coffee region, and visit different cities and all that good stuff. but i didnt. i arrived in Salento, and never left. the town sits on top of a hill surrounded by the most amazing ...
Zona Cafeteria y Medellin
After a couple of stress filled days in Bogota we headed to the coffee zone and a wee town called Solento. It was so so nice- a tiny town up in the mountains with rainforest and rolling green hills around. While there we took an excusion to the ...
La Zona Cafetera
What is Colombia famous for? Right, the coffee. So no trip to Colombia without a visit to the coffee zone with its capital Salento. Everything here you can imagine is made of coffee: biscuits, necklaces, soap... On Saturday everybody joins on ...
wax palms and the coffee district
we spent the last two nights in salento at a hostal run by an englishman and his colombian wife. we´d heard lots of good reports about the place from other travellers, and it lived up to the hype. the rooms were basic, but we got to use the kitchen ...
Zona Cafeteria means damn good coffee
By this time, and after a few good nights out in Cali (plus a few crap ones), Ed and I had split from Clare as she had to go to Canada (as you do), but picked up an isreali guy who id originally met looking after my howler monkey in Bolivia. We ...
Cracked out on Coffee
... we had to get off the bus to go up to the main tourist town of salento. No matter its only 40 minutes on a bus from Armenia and we check into a nice hotel with telly for 30, 000 so all is good in our world. We take the bus up to Salento the ...
Salento
We took a very cold overnight bus from Bogota arriving in a very wet Armenia at about 6am. Another bus took us to Salento in the Zona Cafetera and we got ourselves a room in La Palmera after checking out LPs favourite, The Plantation House, and ...
Coffee country
After Popayan our plan was to head to Cali and then west towards the coast and a little town called San Ciprano. Here the locals invented some type of small motorbike-driven train carraiges to drive on the tracks to nearby towns and they play ...
PANACA
The Panaca Park is a great place for kids because they can interact with animals that are basically in farms... Personally for us the place was not very impressive. We prefer animals in the natural ...
Wax Palms and Fog Forest... very nice!
SALENTO AND VALLE DEL COCORA, QUINDIO - This was an amazing trip, we traveled using local transportation to Armenia's Terminal, and from there we took a bus to Salento, beautiful little town, with multicolor houses, as a typical Colombian town, always ...
The Best Experience with the Coffee Process
""LA RECUCA" - Recorrido de la Cultural Cafetera" Amazing place to learn everything about Colombian Coffee. From the outfeets, growing the plants, collect the coffee, process step by step to drink and aromatic cup of Colombian Coffee. mmmmmm ...
Midden in de zona Cafetera
... minder :) Laatst een beetje uitgerekend dat ik nu nog maar zo´n 5 a 6 lange busriiten voor de boeg heb. In Armenia, de dichtsbijzijnde stad, aangekomen blijkt dat de laastte bus al is vertrokken. Ofwel dat wordt een nachtje Armenia. Ik ...
Colombian Coffee plantations
After a long weekend of partying in Medellin, Jen and I were stoked to get to Salento, a small pueblo in the coffee region between Medellin and Cali. The drive there was really beautiful, and we arrived at "The Plantation house" hostel in the early ...
No hemos viajado aun.
Faltan 20 dias de viaje y la idea emociona mucho a las niñas. Primero llegamos a fort lauderdale y de alli vamos a hollywood, y en la noche iremos a donde nana a pasar la noche alla. en la tarde tememos que ir a chequear los oidos de charly al mall de ...
Day 71 - Solento - Parque Del Cafe
... de Tapao which we were extremely attracted to. It was alovely little townand onside it had stunning views over the valley to Armenia. There were banana trees absolutely everywhere in the valley. We couldn't help noticing a plot in the middle of town with ...
COFFEE! COFFEE! COFFEE!
... exciting. I returned to the main plaza to lunch, munching on delicious vegetarian empanandas I had bought at a vegetarian restaurant in Armenia before leaving that morning. (I have to say that I am getting so tired of red meat and pork being the culinary ...
Dia 2, Ibague a Salento, Driving La Linea
La manejada por la linea fue impecable, esta en muy buen estado y lo unico delicado son las curvas alcanza perros. Un accidente bajando de la Linea, en moto, CERO trancon ;) ...
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