Manizales, Colombia Travel Blogs

Jerico - Another road trip beckons
Jan 1, 2007 (42 photos)

... 30 minutes... Being that New Year was rapidly approaching, I learned the sacred ceremony of Blowing Shit Up purveys itself into Colombia with gusto. The road to Jericó was periodically lined with varying degrees of death on a stick: from the poor man's ...

Coffee Disttrict
Jan 14, 2009 (3 photos)

I arrived on the nightbus into Manizales, one of the main towns in the coffee triangle. The buses here are very comfortable but for some weird reason they all turn on the AC full blast at night so it´s freezing inside the bus. Fortunately I had been warned ...

Happy New Year!
Dec 31, 2006

New Year 2007

Sep 22, 2009
Sep 22, 2009 (1 photos)

Manizales
Sep 7, 2007

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Zona Cafetera part 1 - Manizales
Mar 1, 2008 (11 photos)

Becca Our first stop in Zona Cafetera (Coffee Country) was in Manizales, the closest city to Medellin. Coffee Country is exactly as it sounds: Colombian countryside with a sprinkling of quaint towns (and some bigger cities), from which the nearly half ...

Manizales
Apr 1, 2008 (60 photos)

Manizales, Colombia

Coffee Zone
Jul 15, 2008 (82 photos)

Manizales is nothing special in the town itself.  It has a few pretty streets and a nice church (the 2nd highest in the world or something).  But the countryside near by is stunning.  I headed to Nacional Parque los Nevados, and for those ...

coffee region and going south
Aug 15, 2007 (23 photos)

... But if this county is progressing further in secrity and economy it will outrun costa rica and other wealth countrys. In Manizales we were hosted and picked up by Frederico a friend of Patricia. As written above it seems to us (friendlyness) ...

Day 38 - Granada to Supia, Colombia
Nov 2, 2007 (5 photos)

Packed up, saddled up and headed off in our planned wrong direction. We found ourselves deep in a town without signs (not a rare occurrence here) looking for our way out.  The streets are narrow with two-way traffic turning into one-way without ...

Coffee Region
Apr 28, 2009 (3 photos)

... parts of the country. Did you know that white-tailed deer like to eat banana peels? Sandra also explained some of the plantlife and the efforts that are being put into reclaiming the surrounding land. Manizales was a great diversion in our travels.

Trout, Aromaticas...and Auto Rickshaws?
Feb 15, 2007 (19 photos)

... Prime Time (after the 7:00pm News). NOTES FOR THE TRAVELLER: - There are direct buses from Pereira to Jardin.  It's trickier from Manizales...you need to take a bus to La Pintada (15 000 pesos, 2.5 hours) then to the city of Andes (12 000 pesos, ...

Pictionary in the zona Cafeterra
May 31, 2009

... . Op het moment dat ik dit typ ben ik hier inmiddels 4 dagen en ben ik voor het eerst naar het centrum van Manizales geweest. Niet heel bijzonder overigens... Moet maar eens kijken hoe lang ik hier blijf rondhangen. Mijn plan was om dit weekend naar Bogota ...

Climbing over 5000m
Jun 12, 2009 (11 photos)

On an early morning we made for a 2 days trek to the volcano Nevado del Ruiz on 5500m. Our first climb above 5000m! Admittedly we started on 2000m but still not a bad performance we think. Although we enjoyed the walk through all the ...

Cafe Life and Being Short of Breath!
Jan 20, 2007 (11 photos)

... deaths.                I stayed in a sweet travellers' hostel in Manizales called Mountain House, near the university in the chilled open-air cafe  section of the town. I was tempted by ...

Eje Cafetero + Parque Los Nevados
Dec 9, 2008 (16 photos)

Drive through the Eje Cafetero is tiring but is very rewarding. It looks very much like the Northland in New Zealand. There is no sea close by but I found the vegetation richer and so beautiful with all the coffee and banana trees (it gives shade to the ...

Manizales- Extremo Eco Park
Oct 15, 2009 (124 photos)

Manizales is located approx. 3000 meters high in the Colombian Andes. The city is a sprawling metropolitan known for its University and for being the gateway to the coffee region. We followed our new travel friends, Jason and Sharon, into the city just ...

Thermal Pools Under a Waterfall
Feb 12, 2007 (6 photos)

... northward through one of the most spectacular busrides we've ever been on.  The route took us through the city of Manizales to the town of Andes in the the Western Cordillera.  Our bus whizzed through the Canyon de Cauca, closely skirting ...

Day 2
Mar 5, 2006 (5 photos)

... ´s, then off to the Cemetery. It is a Sunday and the family pays their respects to their deceased grandparents. Then we drive to Manizales, about an hour away, up and over a mountain. Manizales is where Francisco grew up. We had lunch at his parents home, ...

Manizalles
Apr 5, 2007

As eli wasnt going to england anymore, we decided to travel some of colombia together. we went with he friend (lady diana) to manizalles, where she used to stud.. we took anothe ove night bus.. which i have now decieded i hate as i cant get an ounce of ...

Manizales
Jan 13, 2009 (5 photos)

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Playing in the white stuff...
Sep 28, 2008 (6 photos)

... we headed south to the Zona Cafeteria, the heart of the Colombian coffee industry.  We took a minivan shuttle to a town called Manizales.  We arrived into town around 8pm and were picked up by a taxi driver who clearly had no idea where we were ...

Guatepe
Apr 5, 2007

... htel in town, which was band new, afteall it was only one night...and was only lie 30 quid for both of us, but fo colombia that was expensive.. but ti was worth it, and we got breakfast too! that night we had street food (thats all i could afford afte ...

Back to Manizales
Oct 30, 2008 (6 photos)

I came back to Manizales for a second time, to burn some days before I had to catch a flight in Bogota. This is where Brad and I split up, from here he will continue south along the way that I came up. I had a great night on halloween. The weather was off ...

Colombian coffee farm
Jan 15, 2008

We visited a Colombian coffee farm today and it required three separate buses and a short hike to get to it. We were the only people there today so we had our guide all to ourselves. A private tour! We learned alot about the coffee making process. ...

Road to Manizales
Jan 9, 2008

... for us to drink and party! They were very curious about us and very friendly: tourists are few in Colombia and even fewer in Manizales. What a great place. Everyone was dancing Colombian style. Boy and girl would hold each other while rapidly shaking ...

Manizales
Sep 6, 2008 (20 photos)

Manizales was a really good stop. The city is up on a ridge, so the views are amazing. It is much cooler weather wise because of the altitude. It did rain off and on while I was there though. I stayed at the only hostel in the city, the Mountain House, ...

Manizales, Colombia
May 18, 2007

Manizales 4 nights.

The coffee region
Mar 7, 2009 (6 photos)

... like - and thus it is impossible to find one without paying through the nose in some tourist hangout. Ultimately, there is much to interest a weekender in Manizales but little for a traveller. Off to somewhere else in the coffee region i go. Solento.

Eco Park Rio Blanco
Apr 2, 2007 (5 photos)

... something else if no room in Platypus. We debated going to either Rio Blanco or to Recinto de Pensamiento, another ecological park in Manizales. It turned out that Recinto was closed on Monday so there was no choice. To get entry to Rio Blanco you have to ...