Of course in a place with as much biodiversity as Colombia, nature tours can encompass a variety of subjects such as active tours, adventure tours, cultural tours and birdwatching tours, as I will explain below.
Last week I was invited by ProColombia (the government agency to promote tourism) to attend the Colombia Nature Travel Mart in Manizales Colombia, after having attended it virtually the year before. Fortunately there were a lot of local nature tour operators attending this year that were not there last year, so I was able to broaden my knowledge of the touring possibilities in all of the regions of Colombia.
Of course in a place with as much biodiversity as Colombia, nature tours can encompass a variety of subjects such as active tours, adventure tours, cultural tours and birdwatching tours, as I will explain below.
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For many years, if travelers wanted to do an Amazon tour in Colombia, they needed to fly to Leticia, at the Tres Fronteras border with Peru and Brazil. From there, they could either do a lodge-based stay in the area, catch a cruise boat or a speedboat to Iquitos, Peru, or catch a cargo or transport boat towards Manaus, Brazil.
But when the vast majority of the FARC guerillas quit fighting in 2017, other areas of the country became safe to travel to and it opened up fascinating areas in the Amazon made famous by the famous ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, during his explorations in the early 1940's, as are mentioned at |
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