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Barranquilla Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Barranquilla, Colombia
Rum overload
This is a top pick! ... man who had lost money gambling on Colombia's exit from the World Cup. This apparently is not the only football-connected shooting in Colombia - there have been more as recently as 2003. And you thought the England team got a raw deal when they got home ...
Carnaval 2011 Here We Go Again!
This is a top pick! Like a religion, or maybe a personal mecca, I was drawn back to Barranquilla again this year for the annual Carnaval. I have no idea why. Perhaps it has something to do with the photos of Miss Colombia you see below. Whatever it is ...
Boobs and Booze - CARNIVAL 2009
This is a top pick! Boobs and Booze....and lots of each. This is the ultra simple explanation of Carnival in Barranquilla, where it is estimated that over 100,000 cases of rum and aguardiente (the local firewater) will be sold to quench the thirsty, frenzied crowd of ...
Street Parties - CARNIVAL 2009
This is a top pick! ... of great Colombians and it's clearly important to them that tourists leave here with a new respect and appreciation for Colombia since they know they have a bad international reputation from the drug cartels and trafficking. So this finishes ...
Carnaval !!!!
This is a top pick! ... "Carnaval" .. well, I didn´t make it to Rio but I have to say Colombians do it up pretty good. I went to Barranquilla, Colombia´s 4th largest city and industrial seaport. There´s not much here for tourists, except for the one week a year when the town ...
Shakira's homecoming concert
This is a top pick! ... fact half Colombian (so sorry I didn't know!). THEN someone mentioned that the upcoming concert was in her home town of Barranquilla, at a huge football stadium. THEEEEN someone mentioned that the tickets were Ps17,000 (US$7). I still wasn't sold on the ...
Karneval in Kolumbien
... mich auf dem Weg. Auch wenn ich dem üblichen Faschingsgeschehen in Deutschland nicht viel abgewinnen kann, dachte ich ein Besuch in Barranquilla würde sich sicherlich lohnen. In der Stadt angekommen traf ich mich mit einer Gruppe Schweizer und wir zogen ...
First impressions of Colombia
Barranquilla didn´t give us the best introduction to Colombia. Flying in via Bogota from San Jose, Costa Rica we found Barranquilla to be nothing more than a dusty, dirty, crowded port city. Luckily we went straight from the airport to the hotel and the ...
El Dia de Amor y Amistad
Yesterday was El Dia de Amor y Amistad, and Shirly, Gabriel, and Karen, planned a small party for the FCC staff at a bar called, La Licorerita. We all had amigos secretos, just like secret santa, but since I just arrived last week I wasn't going to ...
Goles de Convivencia
... the violence and crime rate in cities. The event today brought everyone together, and will serve as an example to all in Barranquilla. The event was a big success, celebrities, media, music, soccer, it was all there.... ...
Barranquilla
Becca ... Ohhhh Barranquilla....where do I begin? As our first stop in Colombia, I think we both had high hopes for this place, especially after hearing how awesome Carnaval is here. And after Panama City I was expecting something similar - semi modern, ...
Karneval in der Karibik: Me gusta, me gusta :)
... dem jedermann angesprüht oder überschüttet wird, sind Bier und Aguardiente ein wesentlicher Bestandteil vom Strassenkarneval in Barranquilla! Ich kam am Freitag mit einigen leuten aus Cartagena in Barranquilla an. Eigentlich wollte ich zum Haus ...
My very first time in the Caribbean
An overnight drive of 16 hours, over a precipitous mountain range took us down to the back water town of Puerto Colombia, right on the coast of the Venezuelan Caribbean. Fabulous place to relax, spend time on the beach, take boats out to uninhabited ...
Shakira´s Hips Don´t Lie !!!
... nummers door allemaal zij. Zij wist onder andere te melden dat de volledige opbrengst van het concert naar de straatkinderen van Barranquilla zou gaan. Het concert was een waar feest voor de plaatselijke bevolking. De prijzen van de kaartjes lagen zo´n ...
Halloween - and the importance of IMAGE
Halloween in Colombia! What should I wear? No time to get a costume, working all day, no costume shops... maybe there are costume shops? Well, anyway, I wanted to be a Pirate, and get some things from second-hand stores to build a costume, but I changed ...
Success!!! What is it?
... con Corazon, which is a direct result of my work here, so I feel successful. Overall things are going great here in Barranquilla. The whole team here is working very hard, and is receptive to my suggestions. It is often frustrating, but if it were ...
Black Hen Protection Against Bad Of Eye
Before writing this entry, I have to apologize to Vati, since I am revealing his Christmas present here, but the story is too interesting to keep to myself. Just as a heads-up to my family in Vienna - I sent a few small gifts today, but it is not with ...
Arrival in Barranquilla, Colombia
... English, so I will have plenty of opportunity to speak Spanish. I need to get a dictionary though.. and maybe a travel book about Colombia. Those were not on the top of my list of priorities when getting ready to move all my stuff in the states. The ...
Lunch in Barranquilla
Today we bused it half way to Cartagena to a town called Barranquilla. We stopped in for lunch with a friend of Janine's, Carmen from work! She kindly took us to a restaurant with her best friend and sister, which was a funky place where some now famous ...
Carnaval In Colombia
... in Colombia that my trip also coincided with the 4-day Carnaval. What a great way to end my South American trip! Barranquilla holds the biggest Carnaval festivals in South America next to Brazil. The street parades got very crowded and very messy - lots ...
Carneval in Barranquilla
... in a room together soon becomes a party. So it's quite the sight to see about one million of them in the one place. Barranquilla, a gritty port town, is renowned nationally as the best city for Carnaval. We made it there in good time for the Batalla ...
Want a Postcard? READ ON.....
I thought some of you would like to receive a postcard from South America or Spain, so if you do, please leave a comment for this blog entry with your address. Also, please let me know if there is a particular place, in South America or Spain, from where ...
Thoughts on "Fear"
... . Humans in need lack choices, for example the choice to continue higher education for the kids in the neighborhoods of Barranquilla I am currently working with. But to continue, without expectations, can I even say what is right and what is wrong? ...
Rainy Day
... that she saw me go to the beach, leaving the hotel, and she is also staying at the hotel, with her friends, who are in Barranquilla for a month for a medical internship. She asked if I was going out tonight, or if I wanted to hang out - I told her ...
La Chinita
... teachers. Last week we hosted a visitor from a beer company in Bogota, called Bavaria, which also has a brewery here in Barranquilla, who is the leader of its social programs. After meeting with her, touring our current facilities, and meeting the La ...
Back to being a bum - Colombia here I come!
... and Im now outta Venezuela! What a relief....And the Colombian border??? Thankgod, no cash needed and no problems. Im finally in Colombia!!! But Im still screwed....when we stop for Brekky, I pull out some crusty ol muesli bar Id been saving for such ...
Puerto Velero, Colombia
... /BancoConocimiento/D/definal_de_nacional_de_windsurf/definal_de_nacional_de_windsurf.asp From Puerto Velero I headed north to Barranquilla, further to Santa Marta, went to the incredibly beautiful and picturesque Parque Tayrona, then to Buritaca, ...
Party like you're Brazilian
We recently found out that Colombia's hot spot for carnival was in Barranquilla, only 2hrs from Cartagena where we were staying. So next morning at 6am, after a good 4hrs sleep we dragged ourselves to the bus station to navigate the confusion ...
shakira´s hometown
From Tayrona, I bussed down to Barranquilla - birthplace of the glorious Shakira! But it's the wrong time of the week to be there - Monday night - so all is very dead and I left the next day to go down to Cartagena. note to self (and all reading ...