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Top Hotels in Armenia
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Armenia Hotel
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Finca Cafetera El Balso Armenia
4 reviews -
Hotel Decameron Panaca Armenia
59 reviews
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La Floresta Finca Hotel Armenia
3 reviews
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Eco-Hotel Santa Barbara Armenia
3 reviews
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El Bosque Del Saman Armenia
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Hotel y Centro de Convenciones Las Gaviotas Armenia
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Hotel Heliconias Armenia
1 review
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Travel Blogs from Armenia, Colombia
In the coffee zone.
This is a top pick! ... time. The place is so green and absolutely stunning. What the valley is most famous for is however its wax palms, the national tree of Colombia and also the tallest palm trees in the world, that grow as high as 60 meters. Johana and I get so excited, so ...
Armenia, Cali, Popayan, Silvia, Pasto, Ipiales
This is a top pick! ... of Colombia's famous export product. No not Cocaine, coffee of course! As we take the coach from Bogota to Armenia, a town in the heart of Colombia's coffee region, we climb up and over a high mountain range and past some of the most spectacular scenery ...
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! ... who despite being only 11years old manages to boss everyone 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 ...
Cali cartel and the bargaining gringos of Buga
This is a top pick! ... was a VERY pleasant surprise when Popayan, first port of call, turned out to be a very comfortable feeling, nice little town. Colombia Popayan is a beautiful whitewashed colonial town, not a whole heck of a lot to do but certainly pretty to look at. ...
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 ...
Oh my God!, have I ever been to a crazier place?!
Ok, so its festival season here in Colombia, well basically its festival season all year here so thats no difference, but this for me was a little different. So I last left you with thoughts of Medellin where, after writing, I met up with a fellow ...
Goodbye to Team Detox
... and Amanda which means everyone has disbanded. It was a great bunch of people and its really weird that its all over. Colombia for me has definitely been defined by these people we´ve spent (what feels like) so much time with. Me and Matty ...
Don´t drink the Aguardiente
... that apparently the route I had planned to take is daft due to the quality of the roads, so will probably head back to Armenia (near Salento) before catching an overnight bus to somewhere or other near San Agustin, and will then continue my way south via ...
Palm trees and mountains
... reach up to about 90 to 100 feet high, if not more. it is by far some of the most beautiful landscapes i have seen here in colombia. so today we woke up, caught a ride in a jeep willys over to the mountains and went hiking for the day. really cool. and ...
More in the coffee region
... Salento we visited Valle De Cocora, a beautiful valley famous for its trout and enormous wax palm trees, the national tree of Colombia. These beautiful trees rise from the ground through the clouds that shroud the valley and up above them to heights of ...
Salento Salento Salento
... in town, and talk for hours..dreams, aspirations, everything. more and more i am learning about my roots here in Colombia, rhythms, sounds, smells, commotion, and then the peace and tranquility in the mountains. everything. everyday i would wake up here ...
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 ...
A hard days work to Armenia
... my hands are now burnt red from the sun. I plod on taking in the wonderful green scenery of this beautiful country. Colombia really is a magnificent country with extremely friendly people. It is very clean and is such a contrast to dirty Bolivia and ...
La Fonda
... touch of the proprietor himself created a savory experience none of us expected. A great evening of gourmet proportions dicovered in Colombia found after going the extra mile. The coffe zone of Colombia has a lot to offer in the way of natural ...
La Zona Cafetera
... "Parque del Cafe" um ein wenig mehr ueber die so leckere Kaffeebohne zu lernen und Kaffee zu trinken fuert mich nach Armenia, bevor es dann zur letzten station am montag in die haupstadt nach bogota geht! kaffeeplantagen gibt es hier fast ...
wax palms and the coffee district
... a few fruit markets, meat markets, and lots of restaurants serving trout. we came to see the wax palms, though. the national tree of colombia, they grown to be 60 meters (over 180 feet) tall and are all around the valley of cocora. so on our first ...
On to Colombia....
... here were so incredibly nice, it totally astonished both of us. So many people have the idea of the dark and dangerous Colombia, and while I am sure there are people like that around, I have to say that everyone we met were absolutely wonderful. They ...
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 ...
Armenians
... finished here. We were off the road about 4 o'clock and settled into a small family run hotel at the edge of Armenia. Gillie enjoyed meeting the owners miniature Pincher. Armenia is the bottom end of the coffee growing area. It was very interesting to ...
Zona Cafetera
I finally left Popyan to head northwards to the famed rolling mountainsides of Colombia's world famous coffee zone. I decided to start by getting my coffee bean education at the parque nacional de cafe. A living museum cum amusement park that was a ...
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 ...