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  • Barichara, Colombia - Well preserved Colonial towns like Barichara are just starting to turn-up on the tourist map. The 18th century sandstone Catedral Conception will likely be a big draw for tourism in the future, but for now it serves a community gathering point for weddings and prayer.
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  • The hands of a mango salesman - Santa Marta - Colombia
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  • A tourist from Bogota scopes the daily catch at a beach pier in Santa Marta. - Santa Marta - Colombia
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  • Soldier on Lookout Duty - Sierra Nevada - Northwest Colombia
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  • A Colombian soldier shows off how the "98" butterfly likes to tickle his nose - Ciudad Perdida - Colombia
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  • Perhaps the most colorful expression of Colombia's national pride is its Carnival.  As large cities like Barranquilla have become safer, events like carnival draw increasing numbers of both national and international tourists. In 2008 the US State Department changed its travel advisory regarding Colombia. It now states that security conditions in Barranquilla, Bogota, Medellin and other large cities have improved dramatically. Barranquilla - Colombia
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  • Street Scene - Cartagena - Colombia
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  • The Park of Lights, with 300, 72 foot tall columns that light up at night, is just one of Medellin's 6 newly constructed public parks--an example of the city's budding renaissance. Medellin - Colombia
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  • Once labeled "the murder capital of the world" Medellin is now famous for its 24-hour party scene. Nightclub dress codes are decidedly chic. Medellin - Colombia
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  • Despite the fact that Colombia produces some of the world's finest coffee, most locals consume cheap Robusta brews while more expensive beans are shipped to Europe or North America.  However, in the past few years, with a growing middle class and economic prosperity, internal demand and appreciation for high-end coffee is up and Colombians are keeping some of the best roast for themselves. Zona Cafeteria - Colombia
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  • Small Town in the Zona Cafeteria - Colombia
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  • Hotspring - Zona Cafeteria - Colombia
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  • In many of Colombia's larger coffee plantations, former paramilitary men have found new work as security guards. Zona Cafeteria - Colombia
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  • Coffee Plantation -Zona Cafeteria - Colombia
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  • Zona Cafeteria ? Colombia - Coffee workers typically work 6 days per week from sunrise to sunset. The beans are hand picked and a source of national pride. Coffee tourism has been a huge win for Colombia's economy in recent years.
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  • Along Colombia's Amazon River frontier, Indigenous communities live a traditional and peaceful lifestyle. They operate in a mostly cashless society but trade fish, fruits, and and harina flour for money to buy two key essentials from the outside world--salt and gasoline to power a generator. Communidad Tarapoto - Colombian Amazon
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  • San Juan de Soco indigenous community members have determined that, because of increasing security in the region, tourism holds the key to their children's future. In 2008, they procured $25,000 in public funding to construct 5 tourist cabanas on their land. Comunidad Soco - Colombian Amazon.
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  • Rural laundry drying in horse pasture - Pacific Coast - Colombia
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  • Angelica, Cartagena's top fruit salad street vendor - Colombia
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  • Local Boy With Ant - Sierra Nevada - Northwest Colombia
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  • Arrecifes Beach - Tayrona National Park - Colombia
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  • A hiker en route to the "Lost City" - Ciudad Perdida Trail - Colombia
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  • Hiking - Tayrona National Park - Colombia
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  • Rural landscape - Boyaca - Colombia
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  • A hiker crosses a stream near a waerfall in San Gil - Colombia
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  • A street vendor makes his way through the coastal town of Santa Marta - Colombia
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  • A street vendor with cotton candy - Santa Marta - Colombia
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  • Trekking along the beach in Tayrona National Park - Colombia
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  • A hiker enjoys an overlook in Tayrona National Park - Colombia
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  • A group of hikers eating lunch during a 6 day trek to the Lost City (Ciudad Perdida) - Colombia
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  • Ciudad Perdida - Colombia, Tourists and military officials enjoy the ruins of the "Lost City" in the in Sierra Nevada.
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  • Tourists and military officials enjoy the ruins of the "Lost City" in the in Sierra Nevada - Ciudad Perdida - Colombia
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  • Parque National Tayrona - President Alavaro Uribe has waged a heavy war against leftist Guerrilla groups like the FARC. Their retreat into the jungles has improved road security throughout Colombia. As a result, Colombians are traveling throughout their own country in record numbers. Many, like 30 y/o Carolina, are taking roads trips and experiencing their country for the first time. Places like Parque National Tayrona used to be a point of trade for the Tayrona Indians, then a war zone/base of operation for ELN guerillas and drug traffickers sending shipments north. This type of journey would not have been possible just a few years ago.
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  • Young Colombian girl discovers strawberry flavored popsicles for the first time - Tayrona National Park - Colombia
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  • Arrecifes Beach - Tayrona National Park - Colombia
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  • Beach in Front of Arrecifes - Tayrona National Park - Colombia
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  • Cartagena, Colombia - The jewel of Colombia's tourist offerings, Cartagena is a immaculately restored colonial town, and a former pirate's layer, set alongside the Caribbean Sea. Here, a horse drawn carriage whisks tourist by the Teatro Heridia, one of the more recently restored structures.
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  • Cartagena, Colombia - With a newly found freedom to travel and explore the natural areas of their county, many young Colombians have taken to adventure tourism as a means of both recreation and income.  With an audience of eager North American and European adventurers scouting the wind and breaks from the beach a local kite-surfing school owner launches over Cartagena (in the background), showing off the "next world class surf spot".
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  • Park of Lights from Medellin EPM Library - Medellin - Colombia
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  • Medellin, Colombia - The Park of Lights, with 300, 72 foot tall columns that light up at night, is one of Medellin's newly constructed public parks--an example of the city's budding renaissance.
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  • View from the Biblioteca Parque Espana - Medellin - Colombia
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  • A trainer waits for a horse to be prepared for his student - Armenia - Colombia
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  • Coffee Plantation - Armenia - Colombia
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  • A typical home in coffee country - Colombia
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  • Coffee Worker - Zona Cafeteria - Colombia
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  • Young Boy with father - Plaza de Bolivar - Bogota - Colombia
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  • Young Boy iin Plaza de Bolivar - Bogota - Colombia
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  • Parque National Tayrona - President Alavaro Uribe has waged a heavy war against leftist Guerrilla groups like the FARC. Their retreat into the jungles has improved road security throughout Colombia. As a result, Colombians are traveling throughout their own country in record numbers. Many, like 30 y/o Carolina, are taking roads trips and experiencing their country for the first time. Places like Parque National Tayrona used to be a point of trade for the Tayrona Indians, then a war zone/base of operation for ELN guerillas and drug traffickers sending shipments north. This type of journey would not have been possible just a few years ago.
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  • Pacific Coast - Colombia
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  • Pharmacy - Pacific Coast - Colombia
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  • A family takes in sunset from their dockside storefront - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Scene from the dock - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Puerto Narino - The Amazon River floods the town soccer field turning it into a makeshift swimming pool - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Indigenous Pre-school - Comunidad Indigena de Naranjales - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Indigenous children take their school lunch break - Communidad Siete de Augosto - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Men from the community work together to cut the grass of the football field with machetes - Communidad Siete de Augosto - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Storefront in Puerto Narino, one of Colombia's most progressive communities, was the first to elect an indigenous Mayor and initiate a garbage recycling program. Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Monkey boards a canoe at Lake Marasha - Amazonas - Peru
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  • A young boy rests in the Market in Leticia - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Travelers check out newly hatched Caimans - Amazonas - Peru
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  • A young woman prepares for a beauty contest - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • An Indigenous family host children who traveled via canoe at night to watch a movie on TV powered by a generator with gasoline borrowed from the first tourist to visit the community  - Communidad Siete de Augosto - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Men gamble at the warf - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A young woman participates in her school beauty pageant - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • The flooded market in Pueto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Portrait of a Campesino- Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Portrait of a Campesino- Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Indigenous Pre-school - Comunidad Indigena de Naranjales - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Flooded Fish Market - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A young adult community member practices playing the flute - Communidad Siete de Augosto - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A motorista locks his boat to the dock - Communidad Siete de Augosto - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Men from the community take a breather after cutting the grass of the football field with machetes - Communidad Siete de Augosto - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Sunset in the Public Market in Leticia - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A school beauty pageant participant - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A school beauty pageant participant with her mother - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A monkey watches from below a judges chair at a school beauty pageant - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A wild Parrot checking out the Indigenous community house - Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • Men sort the daily catch to ship to Bogota - The fish market in Leticia - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A family swims from the shipping dock at Puerto Narino - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • A family living on a floating house makes Harina flour in the furthest corner of Colombia along its border in Peru. In the Amazon, Peru suffers from much higher poverty rates, lesser environmental control, and a burgeoning cocaine trade than in the Colombian Amazon - Amazonas - Colombia
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  • The sawmill at Tigre Peru - A family living on a floating house makes Harina flour in the furthest corner of Colombia along its border in Peru. In the Amazon, Peru suffers from much higher poverty rates, lesser environmental control, and a burgeoning cocaine trade than in the Colombian Amazon - Amazonas - Peru
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  • Inside the shop of Enrique, the Guitar Artisan of Bogota - Calle de los Mandolinas - Bogota - Colombia
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  • Young Woman at the "Faces of Colombia" Exhibit - Gold Museum - Bogota - Colombia
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  • The guitar master of Bogota - Calle de los Mandolinas - Bogota - Colombia
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  • The guitar master of Bogota - Calle de los Mandolinas - Bogota - Colombia
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  • Performers reherse for a Circus Show - Bogota - Colombia
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  • Enrique, the Guitar Artisan of Bogota - Calle de los Mandolinas - Bogota - Colombia
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  • Long Lines to of Military Academy Students in the Candelaria - Bogota - Colombia
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  • Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Bogota, Colombia
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  • Oscar Ruiz Navia - Colombian Film Director - La Macarena - Bogota
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  • A Llanero plainsman takes in the view from atop of a volcanic boulder field in the the middle of the Orinoco River - Orinoco River Basin - Venezuela - South America
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  • Wall Art - La Candalaria - Bogota -Colombia
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  • Coal Mine Biker - Colombia
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  • Coal Mine Biker - Colombia
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  • Coal Mine Biker - Colombia
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  • Coal Mine Biker - Colombia
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