Articles tagged with "Colombia"
In Colombia the weather question is really an altitude question. This guide explains the thermal floors the country is organized into, what an hour's flight between them does to a traveler, and where altitude stops being a curiosity and becomes a health matter.
Colombia's entry rules are straightforward except in one respect, and that one respect is where this guide spends its time: the two public health sources this cluster cites do not agree about whether a yellow fever certificate is required, so both are published here rather than one being chosen.
Colombia sits on the equator, which removes the seasons most visitors plan around and replaces them with wet and dry periods that differ by region. This guide takes the regions in turn and says plainly where the usual advice does not hold.
San Agustin was inscribed in 1995 and holds the largest group of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in South America. It is remote, it is the least visited of Colombia's inscribed properties, and getting there is most of the planning.
The Coffee Cultural Landscape was inscribed in 2011 and covers 141,120 hectares across six farming landscapes and eighteen towns. It is a rare kind of World Heritage property: what is protected is a working agricultural tradition and the settlements it produced.
Cartagena was inscribed in 1984 for its port, its fortresses and the monumental core inside the walls. This guide covers what UNESCO actually protects, the three quarters the old city is divided into, and the advisory question that makes people cancel a trip they should take.