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Manizales Slideshow
Top Hotels in Manizales
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Hotel Estelar Las Colinas Manizales
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Varuna Hotel Manizales
6 reviews
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Carretero Hotel Manizales
6 reviews
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Carretero Hotel Manizales
6 reviews
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Hoteles Portico Galeria & Cava Manizales
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Travel Blogs from Manizales, Colombia
Jerico - Another road trip beckons
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Manizales, Colombia
... of outdoor activities to do and had a few coffee farms that offered tours. In the bus station, waiting to leave for Manizales, Ciaran got accosted by a massive security dog in the bus station. It was the second time this has happened and ...
Manizales - Volcano day trip
Today we are up for a 7.30am start for the day trip up to the volcano. We jump in an old Toyota Landcruiser which looks identical to the jeep we had for the salt flats tour in Bolivia - except for the salt flats we only had 4 gringos in the jeep ...
Coffee Disttrict
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 ...
7 espressos later...
... the park was quite beautiful, with lots of native stuff like plants and butterflies, apparently zebras grow in Colombia too. Our decision to hang about Manizales for Australia Day (Australia time) couldn't have paid off better. That morning a group ...
Zona Cafetera part 1 - Manizales
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 ...
Coffee farms in Zona Cafetera
The 350km from Bogotá to Manizales took us 8 hours through amazing scenery going all the way down and then all the way up the mountains with windy roads and sheer drops off the edge. Manizales is one of the main towns in coffee producing area called ...
coffee region and going south
... 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) ...
Coffee Plantation
... on the tour (and I even drank some...Grandpa would have been so proud!). The plantation was 30 mins from Manizales and 1000 meters below, what a differece it makes for temperature and perfect location to grow the plant....which turns into most ...
Day 38 - Granada to Supia, Colombia
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
... 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 ...
Munte, palmieri si flori
... io n-am mai vazut-o si nici nu cred ca se vede-n poza, curcubeu circular cu soarele in mijloc, absolut fantastic. Dupa Manizales pe itinerar urma Medellin insa alegerile parlamentare din Columbia mi-au dat planurile peste cap. Ley seca inseamna ca atunci ...
Coffee Farm
Tuesday, my second day in Manizales and I decided that I'd head to see a local coffee farm to see the processes that happen to produce coffee. Aswell as being informative the coffee farms very often have beautiful grounds and amazing scenery. ...
Fights at 15000ft, Nevado del Ruiz
... in the front while are backpacks went in the back with the empty pales. We left the station and began our climb out of Manizales and it soon became apparent why we arrived so early to get the seats as more and more climbers made there way into the ...
Nevada de Ruiz: We came, we saw, we climbed
In particular, we scaled Nevada de Ruiz, the volcano close to the end of the Andes Mountain Range located near Manizales. Lewis had told us the story of the day he climbed this mountain well before we had even planned to come to South America. It sounded ...
El mejor café para el resto del mundo
... and coffee will come to mind. After visiting the home of cocaine (Medellín), I headed south to Manizales to find out more about Colombia's (second) most famous export, and this time to experience some free samples. The weather in Manizales was ...
Trout, Aromaticas...and Auto Rickshaws?
... 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, ...
zona cafetera (coffee zone)
will i finally have a nice coffee in latin america? YES manizales is in the heart of colombia´s coffee growing zone. in the mountains, it´s a beautiful area and the drive was beautiful. went to a nearby hacienda and did a tour of a coffee growing farm. ...
Ahhhh, return to nature :)
... nbsp; It turned out to be my first of 3 unplanned stops in the "Eje Cafetero" or Coffee Center of Colombia. I really didn't end up spending any time in Manizales...it seemed to be an alright little city though. I got there only about an hour before ...
From White Gold to Black... Coffee That Is
... for visiting the area coffee plantations, after a stunning though occasionally nauseating ride through the mountains from Medellin. Though Manizales is supposedly 'nothing to look at’, we found the young university city to be quite intriguing and ...
Climbing over 5000m
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 ...
Coffee Zone
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 ...
Cafe Life and Being Short of Breath!
... 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 ...
Manizales, the heart of the coffee region!
... 3 months and headed futher South along the Andes. My destination was the capital city of the Caldas coffee growing region, Manizales. The journey was similar to many others I had taken, winding through the green mountains, the beautiful ...
Ganduri, poze, comentarii: ghiveci!
... reflectii decat pentru voiaj. Asa ca pentru partea asta din trip las pozele sa spuna mai multe. Si-aveti acolo si-un preview a ceea ce urmeaza, adica niscaiva poze din Manizales cu inca una din minunatiile Columbiei, transportul public urban pe ...
Black please, no sugar, no cream
Manizales is one of the major coffee production capitals of Colombia. It's located between the magical altitudes of 800-1800 meters, where coffee plants thrive. We were really impressed by the fanciness and cleanliness of Manizales and ...