A smiling boy riding a horse symbolises the resilient nature of a town inland from Cartagena founded by former slaves in the 17th century ..read more

In our weekly look at people’s travels through three Instagram shots we look at the flourishing street art movement in the Colombian capital ..read more

The neurologist and award-winning author on Dingle’s musical charm, playwright Enda Walsh, and London’s most opulent breakfast After qualifying in medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1991, Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan trained in neurology and clinical neurophysiology. She has been a consultant since 2004, first working at the Royal London hospital and now at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy. In 2015, O’Sullivan completed an MA in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and published her first book, It’s All ..read more

The Cali hilltop’s history includes an eerie legend but its present focuses on a park and market where local craftsmanship and creativity is showcased According to Caleños, as Cali locals are called, there is an eerie legend about their cross on the hill. Here, in the mid-1500s, two African slaves are said to have defied their masters by getting married in secret. The couple were betrayed, and killed, and were never given a proper burial, so it is said their souls were left wandering the hillside until the placement of a cross laid them to rest. Franciscan friars put the current brick one ther ..read more

Most visitors to Colombia skip Bogotá, but time spent in the city means discovering one of the best music and nightlife scenes in Latin America Bowling alleys will never seem the same once you’ve been to Colombia and played tejo. Not unless you employ equal amounts of beer and gunpowder. Here’s how this little-known Colombian sport works: you throw a lump of metal – it looks like a squashed version of what shotputters throw – down what looks like a bowling lane, aiming for a far-off sandpit. If you hit the right spot, bam! There’s a crackle of explosives, a cheer and a clink of beer bottles. I ..read more

Pablo Escobar’s former retreat near Medellín is one stop on adventurer Eddie Smith’s tour of the lush landscapes of Colombia and Panama ..read more

One of Colombia’s natural wonders, the Caño Cristales river lies deep inside what was Farc rebel territory. But last month’s historic peace deal means tourists can enjoy its many-hued waters The first thing I felt when I saw the river running red was relief. The colour was more raspberry sorbet than blood red, flowing invitingly beneath soaring, skinny palm trees. Until this point, I had been slightly worried that Caño Cristales, Colombia’s so-called river of five colours, could be to water what the northern lights are to the night sky – unreliable and often nothing like the pictures. But Caño ..read more

The spirit of adventure has taken this full-time traveller from a chilled-out beach bar into the Amazon rainforest ..read more

Twenty-five years ago, Medellín was the most dangerous city on earth. Yet its most infamous criminal, Pablo Escobar, also helped create the conditions that sparked an extraordinary revival – by taking the city to the brink of collapse Read more articles in the series here “I’d never been to that neighbourhood before. It was a new world to me.” The architect Luis Miguel Velez Wiesner is recalling the first time he set foot in Santo Domingo, one of Colombia’s most notorious comunas (slums), when the Medellín cable car opened in 2004. “The first time, I felt like I was going to be kidnapped. No ..read more

The verdant Colombian city is a place of ‘magical realism’ for the film-maker Kate Horne, whose latest release, Gabo, is a documentary of Gabriel García Márquez The “city of eternal spring” charmed me from the moment I arrived, with its beautiful surrounding mountains, the rich culture of literature, music and art, its astonishing orchids – and its seductive, temperate climate. My first visit was in 2002 and I went back again in 2009, to interview a former kidnapper and guerrilla fighter. I was really wondering if I could pull that off: my expectations of the city were low because it was synon ..read more