One time, in Colombia, while drinking cheap beer and philosophing on sidewalks, I met a guy named Francisco, who was from a tribe called Wiwa. The Wiwa live far up in the Sierra Nevada and Francisco invited me to come and meet his family and people in his village. I don’t often get offered to hang out with mountain tribes, so clearly I jumped at the chance.
After walking uphill for …

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Beauty usually comes last on adventurous backpacking trips through Colombia. The showers are cold and cockroachy, you sweat under coconut oil skin, your hair is dried out from the ocean and the sun and manicure suddenly sounds like a city in France. So, if you happen to be in the neighborhood of a volcano that is filled with beautifying mud rather than bone-burning lava – just go for it. An …

The Colombians love their rumba (party) . They do it all the time, but a very special occasion happened to be last week, when they celebrated the day of their Independence from Spain in Cartagena.
At 40 degrees and sweating like at an Istanbul Hamam, everyone was dancing in the streets. Don’t wonder about the slightly mean-looking gangs, covered in dirt and oil. They’re not after your money, they want …