Let's Swim in Mud!

Written by Bessie about Colombia. Feelin' amused

Colombia has beautiful beaches, charming colonial towns, and the hugest mud puddle you've ever seen to swim in.

It's called: Volcan de Lodo El Totumo. The story goes that it was a volcano looking like it might erupt, and a nice priest threw holy water on it, a lot. Overtime it blossoms into a wonderful mud-bath that has no bottom we could find.

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Real Cartagena is Better than Joan Wilder's Cartagana

Written by Kyle about Colombia. Feelin' happy

You remember the movie "Romancing the Stone" where Kathleen Turner goes to Colombia to save her sister by bringing a secret map that shows where a large gem is buried? No? Well, here's a refresher:

Anyway, when Kathleen Turner's character, the romance novelist Joan Wilder, arrives in Cartagena, it looks like a seedy town full of unscrupulous people. I distinctly remember the bad guys hanging out near the shore feeding crocodiles through grates in the floor.

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Making a Friend in Colombia

Written by Bessie about Colombia. Feelin' normal

Ever wondered what happened to your foreign exchange student 35 years later? Well, let us know, and we'll gladly show up at their house.

Over 35 years ago, a non-English speaking Colombian high schooler, named Lilly, went to Kansas and lived with the family of our friend Mike Zanders. After offering us Lilly's email address, we now have a Colombian friend.

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The Great Colombian Beer-off

Written by Kyle about Colombia. Feelin' normal

I like beer. Beer, beer, beer. As we've been passing through different countries, I've been making a conscience effort to try each different type of beer that I can find. And usually, I declare a winner in my mind of the best beer from that country. Unfortunately, my methodology is usually anything but scientific as usually the beers tasted happen many days apart in many different settings. So, I decided to change this. I went out and bought one of each type of Colombian beer that I could find so that I could try a sip of each of them in the same location in roughly the same time period. Here's what I ended up with:

After dinner, I carefully set up my testng lab (aka "la mesa") with all of my testing aparati, which includes a very scientific pen, a super-high-tech notebook, and my tongue. I then proceeded crack open each beer, and take a sip, writing down the resutls of what I found.

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M..m..m..My Tayrona

Written by Kyle about Colombia. Feelin' happy

Leaving behind most of our stuff and only carrying a days worth of clothes, some food, and a 5 liter bag of water (yes, you can buy those), we headed to Tayrona National Park on Colombia's Caribbean coast. Judging by some of the nearby beaches that we have seen in the past couple of days we expected it to be nice, but what we found exceeded all of our expectations.