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Archive for category: Colombia

Taking The Plunge - Taken 13-Dec-2011 - The Caribbean Sea

Photo Friday – Taking The Plunge – The Caribbean Sea

June 28, 2013/0 Comments/in Colombia, Panama, Photo Friday /by Adam Pervez

Taking the plunge into the Caribbean Sea
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"The New Opportunity At The Base Of The Pyramid"

Que Caro Es Ser Pobre/How Expensive It Is To Be Poor – Books

March 24, 2012/1 Comment/in Colombia, How Expensive It Is To Be Poor /by Adam Pervez

The sad story of prohibitively expensive books in many parts of the world – and its propagation of the poverty cycle
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Counterfeit $10 Bill

Colombia To Ecuador – A Famous Church, Counterfeit Money, And Drugs

March 21, 2012/10 Comments/in Colombia, Ecuador /by Adam Pervez

The journey from Pasto, Colombia to Quito, Ecuador – the church at Las Lajas, drug inspection, counterfeit money, and everything in between
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Volcano

Pasto, Colombia – Unplanned Awesomeness On The Way Out Of Colombia

March 20, 2012/7 Comments/in Colombia /by Adam Pervez

An unplanned final stop in Pasto, Colombia that turned into an awesome weekend
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Popayan - The White City

Popayan, Colombia – The White City

March 17, 2012/3 Comments/in Colombia, Happy Nomad Tour, Latin America /by Adam Pervez

The beautiful “City of White,” Popayan, Colombia
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The Guambiano People

Indigenous Market In Silvia, Colombia – A Feast For The Eyes

March 14, 2012/5 Comments/in Colombia, Happy Nomad Tour, Latin America /by Adam Pervez

The Guambiano Indian’s Tuesday market in Silvia, Colombia – A feast for the eyes
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My Lactose-Free Lunch

Lunch Lost In Translation = Me Milking Myself

March 13, 2012/4 Comments/in Colombia, Funny & Crazy Stories, Funny! /by Adam Pervez

How I ended up milking myself due to a lost in translation moment in Popayan, Colombia
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Alejandra's Big Heart In Action

Volunteering With Fundacion Comeder de Altos de Menga

March 12, 2012/4 Comments/in Colombia, Volunteering /by Adam Pervez

A great day volunteering, playing with kids, and seeing what one big heart can do to improve the community of Altos de Menga
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Eating Fried Cow Lungs

Cali, Colombia – Chilling Out

March 10, 2012/2 Comments/in Colombia, Happy Nomad Tour, Latin America /by Adam Pervez

A relaxing weekend in Colombia’s third biggest city of Cali
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The Cocora Valley

Cocora Valley – Obscene Beauty, Humming Birds, And Palm Trees That Touch The Clouds

March 7, 2012/4 Comments/in Colombia /by Adam Pervez

The obscenely beautiful Cocora Valley in Salento, Colombia – home to the tallest palm trees in the world
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Salento, Colombia – A Small Town With A Lot To Offer

March 6, 2012/4 Comments/in Colombia /by Adam Pervez

Salento is a beautiful, small town with the amazing Cocora Valley, friendly people, and pretty architecture
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Welcome To Colombia

Post Robbery Paranoia And The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

March 5, 2012/1 Comment/in Adam, Colombia, Happy Nomad Tour /by Adam Pervez

Thinking out loud after the robbery, feeling paranoid, and knowing what it’s like to walk a mile in the shoes of the people I stay with
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Lulo Fruit

Pereira, Colombia – Recuperation, Farm, And A City

February 29, 2012/4 Comments/in Colombia /by Adam Pervez

A stop in the coffee zone city of Pereira where I recuperated from being sick and toured a farm
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Tent Accommodation

Getting Sick In Colombia

February 27, 2012/3 Comments/in Adam, Colombia, Happiness, Health /by Adam Pervez

Getting sick in Colombia the same night I was robbed, traveling, and resting in less than ideal accommodations
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Old Metrocable

Manizales, Colombia – Cable Car, Coffee, And Latin America’s Ugliest Building

February 25, 2012/6 Comments/in Colombia /by Adam Pervez

Manizales is a city that gave me the great experience of visiting a coffee farm and the bad experience of being robbed.
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Me With The Police

Getting Robbed Again.. This Time In Colombia.. This Time It Was Physical..

February 21, 2012/28 Comments/in Adam, Colombia, Funny & Crazy Stories /by Adam Pervez

Getting robbed for the second time on The Happy Nomad Tour. This time a bit of physical resistance saved me instead of my bad Spanish.
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Descending The Mountain

An Amazing Day On A Colombian Coffee Farm

February 20, 2012/2 Comments/in Colombia /by Adam Pervez

Spending a day with a family on a wonderful Colombian coffee farm. Pictures galore.
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