La Catedral: Pablo Escobar’s Personal Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2023
By 1991, Pablo Escobar had undergone a remarkable journey, starting as a car thief and then evolving into a small-time trafficker and kidnap...
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Santa Cruz Del Islote: A Crowded Utopia
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2017
Santa Cruz del Islote is a tiny coral island, and one of the smallest, in the archipelago of San Bernardo off the coast of Colombia. It is o...
Yipao: Colombia’s Bizarre Jeep Parade
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2015
The Jeep is Colombia’s most iconic mode of transportation, especially in the coffee growing regions where farming is an integral part of lif...
Casa Terracota: The Clay House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 23, 2015
This misshapen adobe colored house, located in Villa de Leyva, a colonial mountain village 95 miles north of Bogota, Colombia, was built by ...
The Glittering Gold Museum in Bogota
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2015
The Gold Museum in Bogota is one of Columbia’s most important museums with an extraordinary collection of Pre Hispanic gold work on display....
Hacienda Nápoles: The Home of a Former Drug Lord, Now a Theme Park
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2015
About 180 km south-east of Medellin, is Puerto Triunfo, a small municipality and town in the department of Antioquia. It was here that Colom...
The Awkward Mud Bath at El Totumo Mud Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2015
El Totumo Mud Volcano is located in northern Colombia in the municipality of Santa Catalina, about 50 km northeast of Cartagena. The volcani...
Massive Outdoor Escalator in Comuna 13, Medellin
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2015
The neighborhood of Comuna 13, located on the periphery of Medellin, the second-largest city in Colombia, is one of the poorest section of t...
The Rock of Guatapé
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2014
La Piedra Del Peñol , Spanish for "The Rock of Guatapé", also known as El Peñol Stone or simply as La Piedra is a massive rock l...
Cocora Valley: The Valley of Palms
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2013
Wax palms or palma de cera is Colombia’s national tree and the world’s tallest palms. These palms grow exclusively in the high-altitude val...
Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 3, 2013
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a ...
Cano Cristales: The River of Five Colors
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 23, 2011
The Cano Cristales is a river of Colombia located in the Sierra de la Macarena. For most of the year, Cano Cristales is indistinguishable fr...
