The Unknown Colombia - Adventures and Travels of El Indio Andino

  Prologue This is the second part of the post Ocaña - The red onion town . If you have not checked it out, I recommend that you check it out first to follow this post. Throughout this post, I am going to refer to La Playa de Belén as La Playa just like the locals do. Backstory A slight backstory to about 2 weeks before this day and time. I decided on the places to visit and charted a route map and was planning on the places to stay. In my whole history of living and travelling in Colombia, there was one instance where I could not find hotels in booking.com for just one place - Tenza, Boyacá. It was a process to find a hotel there, call and book. When I decided that I wanted to travel to La Playa, the hotels that booking.com had were all in Oca ña. I do not want to stay in Ocaña. I wanted to stay in La Playa to enjoy the experience of living and staying in a small town that is the least popular Pueblo Patrimonio (Heritage Town). Hence this is the second such instance of not being ...

Heritage towns of Colombia There are 17 heritage towns in Colombia that are spread across the country. Some see more visitors than others, some get more foreign backpackers than others. Some are easily accessible than the others, some are more crowded than the others. There are some that hardly people outside the immediate vicinity know. Villa de Leyva Monguí Mompós The Bethlehem Beach Yes I am mentioning about La Playa De Belén , in Norte De Santander . I first saw this place in one of the small documentary movies that get shown (or shall we say used to get shown) in Cine Colombia before the main movie screening.  In fact hardly any Colombian or any one for that matter knew about this place. This made it all the way interesting and excited to make an attempt to visit this place. However, the distance from Bogotá is a factor to consider. As per Google maps, it is a 14 hours drive away. The nearest big cities from this town are Cúcuta and Bucaramanga . Cúcuta is about 5.5 hours ...