With her longtime travel partner, Donald Cooney, Rosen provides a lively account of their adventures exploring Bogota, the Coffee Zone, Cartagena, and Tayrona National Park. Colombia blends factual information and historical background with engaging anecdotes and descriptions of the countrys people, cuisine, art, music, and natural and manmade surroundings.
Including general tips culled from travel to eighty-nine countries, Rosen describes Colombia as a superb destination as well as a great place for a journey. This guide shares Rosens and Cooneys excursion through Colombias history and time, witnessing its past while experiencing its present. They arrived with a collection of facts and data and left with an appreciation of Colombias diverse culture and a positive belief in its future.
Alexandra Rosen earned a graduate degree in history and is a former business woman from Knoxville, Tennessee. She and her longtime travel partner, Donald Cooney, have been journeying together since 1992, favoring edgy destinations not yet on the international tourist map. In the last twenty years, she has visited eighty-nine countries.