Barranquilla, Colombia Travel Blogs

Boobs and Booze - CARNIVAL 2009
Feb 21, 2009 (96 photos)

... kind of behavior will have you feeling like you spent a month inside a pickle jar.  Upon arrival in Barranquilla, I headed straight for the city's ugly center where all the cheap, but crappy hotels are located.  But after ...

Street Parties - CARNIVAL 2009
Feb 24, 2009 (30 photos)

... 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 !!!!
Feb 8, 2005 (16 photos)

... famous "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
Nov 15, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

El Dia de Amor y Amistad
Sep 18, 2008 (10 photos)

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 get ...

Goles de Convivencia
Oct 19, 2008 (12 photos)

... 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....  http://www.elheraldo.com.co/ELHERALDO/ ...

Barranquilla
Feb 4, 2008 (8 photos)

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 :)
Feb 25, 2009 (54 photos)

... , mit 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 von ...

My very first time in the Caribbean
Sep 29, 2009

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 !!!
Nov 18, 2006 (9 photos)

... 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 4 ...

Success!!! What is it?
Oct 29, 2008 (2 photos)

... 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 not ...

Black Hen Protection Against Bad Of Eye
Dec 7, 2008 (1 photos)

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
Sep 14, 2008 (4 photos)

... 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
Apr 21, 2008 (7 photos)

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
Mar 5, 2006 (35 photos)

... 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
Feb 22, 2009 (5 photos)

... 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 de ...

Want a Postcard? READ ON.....
Dec 5, 2008 (1 photos)

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"
Oct 2, 2008 (4 photos)

... . 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? Who ...

Rainy Day
Oct 4, 2008

... 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 that ...

La Chinita
Sep 27, 2008 (1 photos)

... 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!
Dec 1, 2006

... 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 an ...

shakira´s hometown
Oct 16, 2006

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 ...

barranquilla carnival......not this time
Feb 18, 2004 (5 photos)

... ! hence the 4 taxis to get back to the hotel....and the jersey brigade allying to support pamps- mum doctor meza in barranquilla...maria everywhere hence the call from the embassy, hilde in bogota and of course where would we have been without dr ossuna ...

Dia de la Imaculada & Vulcan Totumo
Dec 8, 2008 (17 photos)

... already passed at 4pm. Luckily a few military guys, at a road-stop, stopped a tourist van for us, which took us back to Barranquilla - although for a high price. Back home, Lili took care of me with some Arepas. What more do I want out of a day? Nothing ...

Barranquilla
Oct 10, 2009 (2 photos)

... to skip it. We headed back towards Cartagena so that we could start making our way South.  We made it as far as Barranquilla, a large port city, before it got dark.  We had to stop for the night so we stopped at a large truck stop.  ...

Taganga to Barranquilla
Nov 15, 2006

... me, really felt like flying. Do it if you can would be my advice :-) I found out that Shakira was playing in Barranquilla football stadium from some of the other hostelers and that a whole group was going, and also that the tickets were only 7500 pesos ...

Salamanca National Park, near Barranquilla
Feb 20, 2007

... with us on the highway until a bus came as they were concerned that we may be robbed. The bus came and we returned to Barranquilla market. The driver was concerned and even though it was a 10 minute walk he wanted us to take a cab. We reluctantly did so, ...

Barranquilla Carnaval
Feb 19, 2007

Barranquilla Festival, Monday 19th. It is getting towards the end of the Festival and many of our traveling friends are moving onto Tabatanga near Santa Marta. It's a trendy tropical carribean beach that attracts backpackers. This morning we went to the ...

Girlie lunch in Colombia
Apr 20, 2008 (10 photos)

A two hour bus ride back from Taganaga to Baranquilla ...half way home for us to Cartagena...today is lunch with Carmen...yippee!!!! We phoned her this morning and she gave us her mums address, which is the home she was born in half a century ago. A ...

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Oct 8, 2007

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