The Lonely Planet travel guides recently picked Colombia as one of the top 10 travel hotspots of the year. Colombian President, Alvar Uribe, has taken a hard line against crime and, since 2002, there has been such a huge drop that places like  more about Colombian Heartlands...

Though habitually more closely associated with its turbulent past than with its prospective bounties for the visitor, Colombia will surprise the intrepid traveller willing to look beyond its oft overstated maligned reputation. Indeed, it is for this  more about Colombia...

A country in the midst of a character face-lift, Colombia is currently shaking off the shackles imposed by a long-held questionable reputation and with the help of a hard-line policy to deal with its well-publicized unrest, it is redefining itself  more about Colombia & Ecuador...

It is highly unfortunate that Colombia has made a name for itself not for its incredible topographical diversity and splendour, its cultural charms or its myriad historic and natural attractions, but rather for its political strife and social  more about Colombia, Ecuador & The Galapagos...