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Bucaramanga Slideshow
Top Hotels in Bucaramanga
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Tryp Chicamocha Bucaramanga
12 reviews -
Inversora Hotelera Colombiana Bucaramanga
1 review
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Dann Carlton Bucaramanga
29 reviews
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Hotel Internacional la Triada Bucaramanga
11 reviews
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Hotel Ciudad Bonita Bucaramanga
8 reviews
Bucaramanga
Travel Blogs from Bucaramanga, Colombia
San Gil, Barichara and Guane.
This is a top pick! Roadtrip from Tayrona to San Gil via El Playon, Bucaramanga and Chicamocha ...
A Floral Bouquet
This is a top pick! By now the fall colours must be a fading memory for you guys up there in the northern hemisphere. We have also heard some reports that miserable winter weather is already on its way. So here are the bright colours of a South American floral bouquet to ...
Colombia's Outdoor Adventure Capital
This is a top pick! ... ...large hats, just like the large chickens moments earlier. San Gil has a reputation for outdoor adventure here in Colombia. Rafting, kayaking,, parasailing, hiking, swimming, whatever, it's here. I found cooling off in the ...
A drive to the airport and a visit to Zapatoca.
This is a top pick! ... way you can see an amazing view of the cities below that are built in the old river basin between the mountains (cities of Bucaramanga, Floridablanca, and Giron). After the car struggled up the mountain, we picked him up, and we made a stop in the ...
Daily life in Bucaramanga
This is a top pick! ... on it (most hauling pickups here look like this), and the very smal yellow taxi moving quickly. Taxis are everywhere here in Bucaramanga.... I would say there is too many taxis considering I generally see them empty and on the look-out for a ...
Exploring Bucaramana and Floridablanca
This is a top pick! ... in Bucarmanga. The lanes for the bus line are still being contructed, the traffic that goes on this main road of Bucaramanga constantly has to deal with changing lane patterns and temporary dividers splitting up the road all over. This makes the ...
From Bogota and now in Bucaramanga.
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; Other than pulling around my terribly heavy suitcases, the bus ride was great. It takes around 8 hours to get to Bucaramanga, but the whole time I was either looking out the window at the interesting scenery, or was sleeping. I took one ...
My Birthday Party
This is a top pick! The night before my birthday, we had a little party on one of the roof top gathering areas above Ana's apartment. Our beverage of choice for this night was a fresh and tasty pot of Mojito. For those of you who don't know, this is a Cuban ...
Fat Arsed Ants
... airport - whatever it's name was - and get a flight to somewhere on route. So back to Bucaramanga, a city I knew little about. Years previous in Bogota I'd given classes to a Shell executive who came from Bucaramanga and who ...
Outdoor adventures and an 8$ hotel
While waiting for my fun afternoon rafting trip (12$!) in a river filled with snakes and surrounded by spectacular mountain scenery, some lady took me on a tour of San Gil's pride and joy, a fancy park on an island beside the city....and had lots to say ...
Wasserfallklettern und Höhlenabenteuer
Mein Leben in San Gil ist wieder Alltag geworden. Morgens stehe ich meist um fünf auf, weil das die einzige Zeit des Tages ist, in der man Sport machen kann. Tagsüber ist es zu heiss und abends wird es um sechs dunkel. Also muss ich mich wohl oder ...
Besuch von Kati und Alex
Käptn Kati hatte sich schon vor einiger Zeit für die Osterwoche als Gast angekündigt. Wir wollten nun endlich mal das ganze Abenteuersportprogramm nutzen, das San Gil so zu bieten hat. Von Abseilen im Wasserfall bis zur Höhlenkletterei sollte alles ...
Abschied aus San Gil
Weil ich mich doch zeitlich etwas verschätzt habe und noch mehr vom Land sehen wollte, habe ich mein Praktikum eine Woche früher beendet als geplant. Zum Abschied von all den lieben Leuten hab ich wie eine wilde Apfelkuchen gebacken (Äpfel kommen aus ...
The last missing blog entry
Hi everyone, I thought I'd take a minute and give you a quick update and fill in the blanks quickly post-operation to today. After the operation, I was extremely well taken care of by own fleet of medical staff available 24/7: nurses, pain doctor, ...
Surrounded by mountains amist a beautiful town
... movies they play. Anyway as i said earlier the 9 hour trip grew to 11 hours by the time we arrived in Bucaramanga. Our final destination was not here however, we headed to the beautiful, charming colonial town of Giron. I am guessing that when ...
Endlich gehts los...
... hatte. Sie traf also mit zwei Tagen Verspätung ein. Ausserdem hatte ich mich direkt am ersten Abend überzeugen lassen, dass Bucaramanga doch noch mehr zu bieten hat und ich unbedingt noch bleiben muss... Meine Ankunft in Bogota hatte schon vorher für ...
Strong wind == no fun for me :(
This morning was looking like it was going to start pumping early because the sky was crystal clear blue and the sun was scorching the earth... Some very soft thermals were already present around 10:00, but too soft to hold us up. Michel and two other ...
recovering in buca with luc and co
after the massive effort becoming lost and then found in ciudad perdida, luc and i needed a couple of days to recover. so we just hung out with his new found friends. they´re all really nice. it´s a nice city as well... i could´ve stayed there longer, ...
Flying in paradise
Wow... Well, two out of two flyable days were spent in the air flying along side the birds called "churros"! Michel and I have pretty much perfected the afternoon flying which is very similar to the conditions found at Mont Yamaska, Quebec: a mixture of ...
Two Tiny Towns Stuck in the Past
... drummer Bill Lynn, who backed up Elvis Presley for 4 years, and spent his retirement playing in his restaurant here in Colombia. Sadly, he passed away fairly recently, in January 2006. Barichara is also famous for the fact that ...
Picture perfect small colonial town
A quick side trip 45 minutes away to check out the sights of this little ...
2 hours flying with birds and colleagues
Wow... This vacation is off to a great start! Michel and I spent 2 hours flying in a combination of dynamic and thermal conditions in the late afternoon and we both top landed next to the hostel: mine took a little more work because I couldn't make it ...
Awesome flight in the Chicamocha canyon!
... all around was amazing and really brings things into perspective. The landscape, vegetation and climate were totally different from Bucaramanga: the hills were dry and covered with dense forests of super high cacti - many hidding just beneath the canopy ...
cafe de colombia
evo, pa smo tam... V mestecu San gil priblizno 4 ure severno od Ville de Leyve. Mestece ima 42 tisoc prebivalcev in za svojo spokojno in umirjeno masko skrtiva pravi adrenaliski raj. V okolici namrec lahko organizirano naredis skoraj vse adrenalinske ...
Bucaramanga--City of Friendly People
... break apart and put in the soup and they looked aghast at us when we salted them and ate them! (Santander is the department Bucaramanga is in.) Monday we drove an hour and a half back to the Valley of Chicamocha where a national park has been opened. ...
San Gil: Adventure Sports Capital of S. America
... Colombia Reflections on Central Colombia Mary and I left Villa de Leyva on a microbus to Tunja, along the main road from Bogota-Bucaramanga. While we waited for our four-hour minibus north to San Gil, I argued with the ticket salesman who was about ...
Praktikum - Klappe die Erste!
Das ist also mein neues Zuhause San Gil - zumindest für die nächsten vier Monate! San Gil liegt im Departamento Santander und hat etwa 50.000 Einwohner. Es gibt eine Universität, aber kein Kino. Das Zentrum der Stadt ist der Parque La Libertad, ein ...