Colombia: The Bradt Travel Guide

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Bradt Travel Guides, 2008 - Travel - 454 pages
"Much like neighboring Panama, Colombia is home to a fascinating mix of cultures and wildlife. The country has more plant and animal species per square mile than any other country in the world - over 130,000 endemic plants and 1,900 species of bird - and both coastlines (Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea) are rich in coral reefs and marine life. Sports enthusiasts are catered for with climbing, paragliding, fishing, diving and windsurfing, and for the culture vultures Colombia also boasts historic colonial and six sites with UNESCO World Heritage status." - product description.
 

Contents

Chapter
5
PART
109
Chapter 3
129
Chapter 4
151
History 141 Getting there and around 141 Boyacá 142
171
Los Llanos
179
San Andrés Archipelago
197
Amazonia
229
The Northwest Interior
291
The Pacific Coast
335
The Atlantic Coast
353
Amazon Wildlife Guide
415
Language
426
Further Information
432
Index
447
Copyright

The Southwest Interior
261

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About the author (2008)

Since first discovering her itchy feet in the mid-1980s, British-born travel writer Sarah Woods has barely stood still. In over 20 years of travel, she has criss-crossed the globe in several directions, clocking up almost a million kilometres and visiting around 65 countries along the way. A veteran of volunteering, Sarah sponsors an SOS village for abandoned and orphaned children in central Bogotá and fund-raises for reading projects in Northern Colombia for children of school age.

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