I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 615. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about mysterious

ancient statues, fairs and festivals, desert badlands, haciendas, and coffee as we go to the coffee region of

Colombia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Remember after

you listen to this episode if you're interested to sign up for the Africa

trip, the South Africa trip for Amateur Traveler for 2019, but now let's talk

about Colombia.

I'd like to welcome to the show Alejandro who is coming to us from Bogota but coming to talk to us about Colombia.

Alejandro welcome to the show.

Hey, Chris, thanks for having me.

Now we've talked about Colombia before but you've got a little different itinerary that you're recommending for us.

Yeah, I was kind of hoping we could talk about some regions that are kind of on discover by international tourism, you know, a little outside of the typical

Cartagena and Mediterranean.

Excellent. And why should we go to Colombia?

I think it's a really nice country and if you're interested in Latin American

culture I think it's one of the best places to go because it's still rather

undiscovered by international tourism, you'll get a more authentic experience, I think.

Excellent. And you talked about wanting to talk about a different itinerary. What itinerary are you recommending?

A two week itinerary. First, we would go to a region called the Nava and the

Wila Department, which is south of Bogota four or five hours by land and then we

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