Manizales Hotels - Reviews and Rates

as soon as I remember this fantastic spot I will post it.

We got up and left Salento today. It is only 3 hours to Manizales, so we arrived around 11. We planned to go to Rio Blanco right away, but you have to go with a guide and we weren't able to get one until 2.

So, we walked around El Centro in Manizales for a couple hours. Most of that time was spent looking for some vegetarian food, which w...

Manizales is the main jumping off point for the "coffee region" in central Colombia. We stayed in the Mountain House where i again bumped into Avel, who was departing for Medellin. There was little to do in the city itself (highest church steeple in S.Am....zzz...), but there were options for interesting day trips in the surrounding (stunning) c...

After a bitter sweet farewell to Medellin (it was a really nice place) 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 going. After asking 30 different ...

We left Bogota on the 9th Jan to head to Manizales where there is a big coffee festival with parades and celebrations everyday. We took a day bus because we were told the night bus could be dangerous with possible hijackings on the highway. Due to closing of the main highway because of mud slides, our 6 hour bus journey ballooned to 12 hours. In...

Saturday 31st March, 2007 Mountain House Hostel, Manizales This morning we met two Canadians, Amy and her mother Nancy. Amy was teaching english in Barranquilla and was on school holidays. Her mother had come to visit her and she was showing her what she could of Colombia. We decided to go together with them to the park, Rio Blanco. The hostels ...

Here the main draw was a volcanic park & the next day, I joined a tour to Nevado Del Ruiz. We drove up & up, into the National Park where another guide explained the geology & fauna, / up we went to a refuge at 4,900m where we started to climb towards the glacier. I had an annoying cough & really struggled to catch my breath as ...