Colombia Safe Travel

26/09/2020

Es hora de la re-apertura del turismo!!!
Pero, ¿estamos preparados para recibir a los viajeros?

Los invitamos a conocer nuestra guía de protocolos de bioseguridad para establecimientos de hospedaje en Colombia

Conozca los Protocolos de bioseguridad para hoteles y hostales que se deben implementar de acuerdo con la reapertura turística en Colombia

20/07/2020

🇨🇴 ¡Feliz día de la independencia! 🇨🇴 Happy Independence Day! 🇨🇴 ⠀
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At the moment, the times of this crisis are rough and tight, but we all have to stick together with all our pride for this beautiful country and then we will be able to survive this with more pride and strength to the end. ⠀
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Together with all our joy, pride, colors and diversity, we are Colombia 🇨🇴 and love to share our culture, love and people with the rest of the world in better times.⠀
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But today let’s celebrate the pride for our beautiful country! 🥳🥳🥳⠀
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¡Feliz día de la independencia - orgullosa colombia!🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴⠀
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Celebremos hoy nuestra independencia, nuestra pujanza, fuerza y capacidad de resiliencia.⠀
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10/05/2020

¡Gracias por siempre estar ahí, mamá! - ¡FELIZ DIA DE LA MADRE! 💐💝👩 Happy mother day! To all those strong and beautiful moms out there! We say thank you 🙏 and much love ❤️ to you all… You are amazing! ⠀
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❤️ Like Nubia Gaona Cárdenas, a farmer 👩🏼‍🌾 from Chipaqué, Cundinamarca 🇨🇴 and mother of Arley, Jeimer & Leidy. She decided with her two sons to launch a YouTube channel to face the crisis caused by the drop in prices of farm products during the colombian health emergency due to the worldwide Covid-19 epedemic. Aim of their YouTube channel is to teach families around the world to plant their own garden at home. Pachamama is proud of you 😍⠀
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❤️ We love their engagement. So watch out the channel, which already counts with more than 100,000 subscribers, in just one day released.⠀
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❤️ We are proud of all those strong mothers, especially those who have to face as head of family 👩‍👦‍👦and please go on – you are doing an amazing job 😍⠀
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¡TE AMAMOS MAMÁ! 💕 WE LOVE YOU, MOM! 💕 ⠀
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18/03/2020

Important Info for all the travellers in Colombia!
All the national parks are close.

17/03/2020

Relax, rebook and keep on dreaming 😍🇨🇴🌴✈️🌎⠀
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No need to cancel your dreams, it’s just on hold while we all get through this together! 👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏻👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏾 ⠀
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There are still many adventures waiting for you.⠀
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We hope these tough times will pass very soon and so we’d like to encourage you not to cancel your dream vacation but just to change your trip dates instead and visit 🇨🇴 later. ⠀
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Support us, 🇨🇴 and all the suppliers in the tourism industry. We are more than happy to help and support with your adventure. ⠀
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And for those foreigner visitors that are right now stranded and must stay in 🇨🇴 until further notice: we want to offer our network of accommodation partners. We surely can find a perfect and safe place to pass the quarantine. ⠀
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@ Colombia

10/03/2020

Come to visit 🇨🇴 - All you need is your passport!⠀
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✅ Foreign travelers who want to visit Colombia 🇨🇴 should know which documents are needed to enter 🇨🇴:⠀
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■ ID document: If you come from a Mercosur country (🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇪🇨 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇺🇾), you can only enter with a valid DNI or passport (both has to be in good condition)⠀
■ You need a return ticket 🎫 ⠀
■ other countries: a passport is needed ⠀
(e.g. 🇩🇪 and 🇦🇹 do not need a visa to enter 🇨🇴 for travel purpose) ⠀
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✅ The maximum time allowed to be in 🇨🇴:⠀
As a tourist you can stay 90 days. The stay can be extended for 90 more days, when appearing at the Office of Immigration Affairs. In this case, the maximum stay of a foreigner who does not need a visa in 🇨🇴 will be 180 days (6 months).⠀
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✅ Types of visas for foreigners in 🇨🇴:⠀
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■ Resident Visa (RE)⠀
This type of visa is provided to the person who has a Colombian father or mother or in case the foreigner is Colombian because of birth or adoption or also because he has renounced his Colombian nationality ⠀
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■ Temporary Visa (TP)⠀
This is issued to people who wish to enter 🇨🇴 for work, study or volunteering reasons. It is one of the most commonly applied visas and can be applied online on the consulate's website⠀
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■ Business Visa (NE)⠀
This visa is for people who want to enter the country for commercial purposes or business activities and also in the case of economic changes such as company foundation or generation of investments⠀
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✅ Health requirements for entering 🇨🇴:⠀
Among the vaccinations 💉 for travel to 🇨🇴, health authorities require as the only one against yellow fever 🤒, to travel to certain regions of the country and it must be carried out at least 10 days before the start of your travel⠀
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09/03/2020

Wanna get the Jurassic Park feeling? ⠀
Then visit the lush green coffee area of 🇨🇴 with the world’s tallest palm trees 🌴. The wax palms are declared the offical tree of 🇨🇴 & can grow up to 200🦶⠀
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The Cocora Valley & La Carbonera are part of the Los Nevados NP & best way to reach there is from Salento, one of Colombia’s prettiest & most colorful towns.⠀
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🥾 Hiking between the 🌴 in the Cocora Valley:⠀
There is one loop (costs $2.000 + $6.000) with an optional little detour to Acaime (a hummingbird farm where you can get a hot chocolate☕️ with cheese 🧀 - yummy, costs $5.000), taking around 6 hours⠀
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🚵‍♂️ Downhill mountainbiking to La Carbonera:⠀
An hour of driving away from Salento lies the hidden La Carbonara Valley, where you’ll find a thousand times more 🌴 compared to the Cocora. ⠀
Do a 🚵‍♀️ tour there with . After a short downhill bike ride, you will get an astonishing panorama of thousands of wax 🌴. After a short walk into the valley with a profound explanation about the valley & the 🌴, it takes a short Jeep drive to get back up the hill. Enjoy then a 24km long downhill ride towards Salento - for beginner-intermediate & experienced 🚵‍♀️⠀
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🌴How to get there?⠀
By 🚌 - taking around 8 hours, if you’re lucky or by ✈️ to Armenia or Pereira, and from there with a collectivo bus or a taxi drive (50min) to Salento.⠀
Just a 20min drive with a W***y Jeep ($4.000, leaving at the main square in Salento) away lies the famous Cocora valley with its gigantic wax 🌴⠀
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🌴Where to stay?⠀
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Hostel Tralala
La Serena
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🌴What else to do?⠀
■ Coffee tour on a coffee farm⠀
■ Santa Rita waterfall⠀
■ Horseback riding ⠀
■ Kasaguadua: a wonderful natural reserve insight⠀
■ Play Tejo ⠀
■ Tour to Santa Rosa Hot Springs⠀
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Just contact us, and we will be happy to provide you with more info to the green coffee area & it’s wax palm trees or to organize you a trip with 🥾 or 🚵‍♀️ experience.
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08/03/2020

Feliz día internacional de la mujer 💁‍♀️! ⠀
Happy women day! ⠀
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Hey girls, it’s time for a solo adventure! ⠀
Solo female travel to 🇨🇴 can seem intimidating, but the truth is, the country’s amazing culture, warm locals & modern attitude make it a fantastic place to visit by yourself. ⠀
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Here some Tips for Solo Female Travel in 🇨🇴:⠀
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✅ Take the Usual Safety Precautions & ‚No dar papaya‘ – Don’t give papaya. It’s a phrase that means don’t put yourself in a position where you become vulnerable to be taken advantage of. Basically do not flash your valuables, do not walk down dark alleys or do anything else that will obviously put yourself in a risky situation.⠀
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✅ Learn some Spanish⠀
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✅ Stay at a hostel: If you’re traveling alone, staying at a hostel is a great way to meet people, for not only safety reasons but just general fun-having reasons. Your Aguila 🍻 will taste better with a friend or three anyway.⠀
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✅ Watch your drink 🍹 & never leave it unattended. ⠀
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✅ Avoid travelling by night. Don’t take overland buses 🚌 at night. If you really need to take evening overland transport, consider buying a domestic ✈️ ticket. They are really cheap & this can cut down your transport time from 15h to 50min.⠀
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✅ Don’t walk around alone at night. Use Uber or orther Taxi apps or have the hotel call you a cab 🚕. Do not take unmarked Taxis & it is not the best to hail one from the street. When using Uber, understand the risks as it is technically not legal, but it is also not illegal here.⠀
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✅ Explore as much as you can, cause 🇨🇴 is such an amazing & stunning country & some of the best expierences you will make off the beaten tracks. ⠀
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⁉️Contact us, and we are more than happy to support you planning & organizing your solo female trip with a lot of tips & experiences by ourselves in travelling solo as a woman 👩 ⠀
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07/03/2020

Colombians love to dance 🕺🏽💃🏽: it’s practically their favourite thing! And contrary to popular belief, there are a lot more types of dance in 🇨🇴 than just salsa & reggaeton.⠀
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Here some traditional 🇨🇴 dances you should know:⠀
■ Cumbia⠀
■ Porro⠀
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■ Champeta⠀
■ Joropo⠀
■ Salsa Choke⠀
■ Bullerengue⠀
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Why not learning how to dance 💃🏽🕺🏽while you are travelling 🧳 through Colombia 🇨🇴. Anyone can learn to dance salsa, vallenato or reggaeton & show off their best moves.⠀
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Here are the top 12 places to learn dancing in 🇨🇴 and ensure you can enjoy an unforgettable experience in a country that’s proud of its traditional rhythms & irresistible beat.⠀
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💃🏽Where to go salsa dancing in Cali?⠀
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And don’t miss the annual , that takes place every December and features dances, music, food & culture from the region.⠀
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🕺🏽Where to dance in Cartagena?⠀
The walled city will swep you away with Caribbean beats such as champeta, vallenato, salsa & reggaeton.⠀
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💃🏽Where to dance in Barranquilla?⠀
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🕺🏽Where to dance in Bogotá?⠀
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No matter whether you’re a complete beginner, or you already have a few dance moves up your sleeve, Colombians ❤️ to share their expertise & welcome everyone onto the dance floor. ⠀
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Contact us, and we will be happy to provide you with more info where and how to learn dancing in Colombia.⠀
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06/03/2020

In Colombia music is a passion that reflects the great cultural, regional & ancestral diversity of its people & geography.⠀
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𝕋𝕪𝕡𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕗𝕠𝕝𝕜 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔: ⠀
🎶 Cumbia⠀
🎶 Joropo⠀
🎶 Porro⠀
🎶 Currulao⠀
🎶Bambuco⠀
🎶 Salsa⠀
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𝕄𝕠𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕟 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔: ⠀
🎶 Reggaeton: Jbalvin, Maluma, KarolG⠀
🎶 Champeta: Koffee El Kafetero, El Sayayín, Kevin Florez, Mr. Black ⠀
🎶 Vallenato: Diomedes Diaz, Silvestre Dangond, Jorge Celedón⠀
🎶música popular colombiana: Jessi Uribe, Yeison Jimenez, Alzate, Paola Jara⠀
🎶 more bands & singers: Shakira, Bomba Estéreo, Kombilesa MI, ChocQuibTown, Monsieur Periné, Manuel Turizo. Ghetto Kumbé⠀
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✅ 𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕝 𝕋𝕚𝕡𝕤:⠀
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■ 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗲 declared a Masterpiece of the Oral & Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. The village is considered the first free town in the Americas, so you will find a strong & proud Afro-Colombian spirit which tells the story of human tenacity & a new music genre of hip hop with Afro-Colombian roots, called RFP = Rap Folklorico Palenquero⠀
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■ 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗽𝗮𝗿, a city in northern 🇨🇴 known as the capital of vallenato music. Every april it hosts one of the most important music festivals in the country: The Vallenato Legend Festival⠀
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■ 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶 For those who love Latin American music, Cali needs no introduction. Cali is considered the Salsa capital of the world⠀
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■ 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 Here the music is expressed through a blend of African & indigenous influences. You will find a lot of traditional Caribbean & Afrocolombian music with it’s famous genres like champeta, cumbia & vallenato⠀
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🅲🅾︎🅽🆃🅰︎🅲🆃 🆄🆂, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙤 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙖 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮-𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨. ⠀
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05/03/2020

Hundreds of humpback whales 🐋 visit the 🇨🇴 Pacific coast annually, fleeing the cold 🥶 of winters near the South Pole and avid for warm waters to give birth. ⠀
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Visiting the Pacific coast to whale-watch is one of Colombia’s great natural spectacles, and a must-do trip for anyone with an interest in wildlife. ⠀
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🐳 Gorgona National Park: an island located off the Pacific coast where a large number of whales 🐋 come to breed. Gorgona can be visited by flying from Cali, taking boat from Buenaventura, or a boat from Guapi.⠀
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🐳 Nuqui: one of the most biodiverse places in the world, where you can enjoy a very responsible eco tourism. Nuqui is accessible by light-aircraft flight from Medellin. From here you can do whale-watching tours.⠀
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🐳 Bahia Solano & El Valle: Perfect place with many beaches around and access point to Utria National Park, which is one of 🇨🇴 most biodiverse sites, and an excellent place for whale-watching. Access is by plane from Medellin, Quibdo and Bogota, or 12h speedboat from Buenaventura. Less than 1h south by road is El Valle, a small beach-side town with equally good access to the National Park.
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🐳 Bahia Malaga: This bay in the Uramba National park contains a high breeding population of humpbacks 🐋, and access by flights from nearby airports or a direct boat from Buenaventura.⠀
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✅ When to go 🐳 watching in 🇨🇴?⠀
■ June - October⠀
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✅ What else to do at the Pacific coast?⠀
■ Utría national park⠀
■ Surfing 🏄 ⠀
■ Release El Valle baby turtles 🐢 ⠀
■ Hike to Cascada el Tigre ⠀
■ Hike to the Secret Beach⠀
■ Horse-ride down Playa Cuevita 🐎 ⠀
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✅ How long to stay? ⠀
■ 4-5 days⠀
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04/03/2020

NO more 🤐 about drugs please.
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Have you seen the TV series Narcos from Netflix and did you like it? Fine, but keep it for yourself when traveling through Colombia. ⠀⠀
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Drugs are still a very sensitive topic here in Colombia for understandable reasons, and locals have a feeling that the show doesn't depict the reality correctly, and also they don't want Colombia to be seen as a drug country again, so do not provoke.⠀⠀
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Come to Colombia because it is a beautiful country, with beautiful people 👧👨👵👴👶, with a rich culture and history. If you want to try some drugs while you are here, that is up to you, but probably best if you don't call it a cultural experience. Unless you are talking about the coffee 🍵. Because if you're drug of choice is caffeine, this truly is the right country to come to, as there genuinely is a Colombian coffee culture.⠀🏅

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