Szia! How great that you’ve found your way to the UF Travel Blog of Fall semester 2018. Here we will write about our experiences during this semester’s trip - taking you from Budapest, to Belgrade and finally Pristina. Some of the topics we navigated with when...
Hola! On Monday morning we went off to a meeting in Santa Marta. We visited the local organization Fundehumac that works with development in the area, with a focus on strengthening the rights of indigenous people, women and children. Among other things, they have art projects...
Hola! On Sunday morning we left our hostel at 8.00 am to take the communal bus to Tayrona National Park, a protected rainforest area located just one hour away from Santa Marta. It was a vivid bus ride, where some fell asleep to the loud tunes...
Hola bizcochos! After a short (too short) but exciting couple of days in Medellín it was time for us to leave for our last destination on the trip, moving North this time. With Colombia being such a diverse country, we had all agreed on that...
The travel group’s second day in Medellín started off with a visit to University of Antioquia: the oldest departmental university in Colombia, founded in 1803. It is a public university, known as one of the best in Colombia. The travel group was greeted by professors...
Thursday 10th of May was our first day in Medellín! Waking up do a sunny day we thanked the weather gods for another type of weather, weather that we associated more with South America than the rain Bogotá had given us. Starting off the day...
Hola! Our last day in Bogotá started early, heading off from the hostel for our meeting with UN women at 9. Unfortunately, this morning introduced us to what it is like to be in a car during rush hours in Bogotá - we were stuck. [caption id="attachment_5070"...
Hola queridos! Another hectic day in Colombia is coming to and end, and our cosy little hostel is already starting to feel like a second home despite the penetrating dampness. Here comes a little summary of our meeting-filled day in the capital! Today we forced ourselves to...
Hola! Our second day in Bogotá started with rain and a slow breakfast. At 9 am, we were off to the office of the EU delegation to Colombia. In the entrance hall we ran into Hans Thorgren, posted abroad by the Folke Bernadotte Academy, who just...
Hola a todos! We'd like to start off this first post by introducing ourselves: we are this semester's travel group consisting of 16 people lead by our phenomenal travel duo Valentina Torres Ahlqvist and Emmie Lindström Leister. The majority of us are studying political science or...