The 
Marta, San Agustín and Calima among many other sites, are
filling the expectancies of travelers from the five continents. The reasons are
many: it is a country with much to offer in an amazing variety of climates,
mountains, beaches in its two oceans, islands, natural parks, modern cities and 
If
you go anywhere in the world, you will find as international food things like
Chinese restaurantes, Vietnamese, Mexican, French, Italian and even Spaniard. I
forgot where I saw an “English” restaurant, maybe it was in Bangkok, while
American food is every-McDonald-where. Mexican food is the most popular from
Latin America, but I never have met a Colombian restaurant out of a Cafe de
Colombia site in some airports (
Here
we have a real featured blog about Colombia, a little different to what we
can imagine. Normally many blogs try to show the best and most beautiful
pictures and they have of course their right, but nothing better than show
those things from the daily life. A country is known on its streets and
countrysides, rather than in that so protected and well-arranged
“tourist-tube” where visitors are conducted with always smiling faces
and an intermediate-boring English to say “welcome sir, how may I help
you sir, please sir”.
Picture of Carlos Múnera, “La silla del gerente (The Chair of the Manager)
This blog of Carlos Múnera from Medellín and his Somos iguales (we are the same), is a lovely exception. It is not only the magnificent photographies of what seem to be a skillful and artistic observer, but also the subjects he follows in the simple of the most characteristic of the Colombian life. Read the rest of this entry »
Medellín
is currently the headquarter of the 18th Assembly of the Organization of
American States (OAS) with the assistance of several heads of states from
the American nations. Of course one of the main issues is the Colombian -
Ecuadorian crisis that seems to improve in the last days.Picture
from the official site of OAS: Insulza with the Arubean Primer Minister,
Nelson Oduber.