Colombia, August 2026
Our August 2026 trip through Medellín, Bogotá, and Cartagena. Here are the links to all of the Colombia photos if you prefer to skip the commentary in the posts below:
BOGOTÁ DAYS 5 & 6 PHOTOS/VIDEOS
Cartagena Days 9 & 10 Photos/Videos
Cartagena Day 11 Photos /Videos
Cartagena Day 12 Photos /Videos
Day 12: Cartagena, Colombia, August 28, 2026
We woke up this morning to the hottest, most humid day in Cartagena yet. It’s the kind of heat that fogs up your glasses when you step into it from…
Day 11: Cartagena, Colombia, August 27, 2026
This morning, Knox left early to meet our friends at Cartagena Harbour to charter a twin-engine launch to take them to the near-by Rosario islands. The islands are the Islas…
Days 9 & 10: Cartagena, Colombia, August 25 & 26
We left for the airport around noon and took a 3 pm flight to Cartagena, about a 90 min trip and a drop in altitude of 2,545 meters (8,350 feet).…
Day 8: Bogotá, Colombia August 24, 2026
We had a restful morning and then headed to the Caribbean Colombian cooking class our friends had arranged in Bogotá with the chef, Cristina Muñoz. She’s from Cartagena where she…
Day 7: Bogotá, Colombia, August 23, 2026
We left the apartment around 8 am with our guide for the day, Rodolfo, in his way-too-small-for-the-four-of-us hatchback to drive southwest toward a coffee farm, our destination for the day.…
Days 5 & 6: Bogotá, Colombia, August 21 & 22, 2026
Medellín to Bogotá is an hour in the air, and a smoother ride than Mendoza to Santiago by far. We arrived in Bogotá around 1pm, and after easily finding a…
Day 4: Medellín, Colombia, August 20, 2026
This morning, we Ubered down to the Poblano station and took the Line A train again. This time, we kept going north to Acevedo, about a twenty-five minute ride, and we…
Day 3: Medellín, Colombia, August 19, 2026
Today was Museum Day. We headed downtown to the Plaza Botero to see his sculptures and visit the modern art gallery, the Museo de Antioquia. After viewing the sculptures (there…
Day 2: Medellín, Colombia, August 18, 2026
After a lovely buffet breakfast at the hotel, we walked 15 minutes downhill to the subway to head toward Comuna 13, the hillside barrio where Medellín’s notorious, violent government crackdown…
Day 1: Medellín, Colombia, Aug 17, 2026
We left Mendoza at 2 am on the 17th (Monday) and had a 7 hr flight to Panama city, a 3 hr layover, and a 90 min hop to Medellín.…
