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11 Reasons I prefer Cali over Medellín

June 11, 2015

Culture·Plan to stay·Plan to visit·Things to do

Medellín is a favorite among tourists, expats and entrepreneurs alike, and to be fair, it is a very cool place. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Medellín, but I currently live as a resident in Cali. Of course I am biased in my opinions. Still, I feel that Cali has an undeserved bad reputation, and that there are

Culture·Plan to stay

The Cost Of Having A Maid In Colombia

One of the things about Colombia that makes life here feel luxurious, at least in the eyes of a foreigner, is the fact that services that include manual labour are very affordable. For me, personally, having a full-time maid is something I would have never been able to afford in

101 Things To Do In Cali (2025)

Updated April 2025 Celebrating my post # 101 on this blog, I

The Cost of Raising a Baby in Colombia

My friends abroad think that living in Colombia is dirt-cheap. And to

Moving to Cali, Colombia from the Netherlands: A Digital Nomad’s Story

May 20, 2025

Culture·Interviews·Plan to stay

Why would an online entrepreneur from Amsterdam move to Cali? It’s a question I get all the time — from friends, family, and even complete strangers. In December of last year, I made the move from the city of canals to the city of salsa. And this website feels like

Viche – Colombia’s answer to Mexican Mezcal, with a better story

February 13, 2025

Culture·Shopping

Colombian Viche del Pacifico. We could talk about 400 years of resistance, tracing its roots to West Africa, of how this ancestral tradition of distilling sugar cane spirit has been handed down through generations, primarily by women, in rural Afro-Colombian communities accessible only by outboard motor boats in often politically

Best Salsa Lessons in Cali, Colombia

May 5, 2019

Culture·Music & Dancing·Things to do

I recently took salsa lessons in Cali. I would start from the beginning, but that story is a bit long. Suffice to say I’m a relatively tall, very white man raised in rural Canada. My wife is a caramel skinned Latina from the pacific coast of Colombia. We’ve never really

Craft Beer In Cali – Sultana Brewing

April 4, 2019

Culture·Daytrips·Restaurants·Shopping

Craft beer in Cali (and all of Colombia) is still very much in its infancy. With only a few certified microbreweries and a handful more home brewers, the craft beer scene in Cali is new, exciting, and delicious. Last week we had the opportunity to tour one of Cali’s few

La Linterna – Cali’s Old Poster Factory

March 7, 2019

Culture·Shopping·Things to do

Although I’ve known about this place for years, I never realized how it cool it was until I brought a couple of friends from New York there who work in publishing. It was almost impossible to drag them out of the shop. La Linterna is an old poster factory that

Cali’s Best Coffee Shops

July 26, 2018

Culture·Restaurants·Things to do

Juan Valdez and newly arrived Starbucks in Cali are filled to the brim with people drinking coffee produced for the masses. But as many experts will tell you, this mass-produced and highly marketed coffee – while wildly popular and very expensive – is not the best cup of coffee available on

Health Insurance in Colombia

June 21, 2017

Health care·Interviews·Plan to stay

A couple of months ago, I gave my second speech about visiting, living, and investing in Cali to a group of European and North American retirees and investors at the Live and Invest Overseas conference in Medellin. It’s an annual, weeklong event with up to 8 different speakers presenting each

Watching a Futbol Match in Cali

April 26, 2017

Culture·Events & Festivals·Sport & Recreation·Things to do

In Colombia – and especially in Cali – people are very passionate about two things: Salsa and fútbol! Both are ingrained deep in their roots, and most Caleños will have a hard time denying their love for either. Here’s how my buddy Rodrigo describes it… “A Caleño is a salsa

3 Things To Do In Pasto

September 22, 2016

Culture·Hiking·Things to do·Weekend trips

One of the things you’ve likely come to realize is the high level of contrast within Colombia, which seems to have every conceivable landscape known to us. I am talking about tropical coasts, Amazonian jungle, plains and wetlands, and even desserts that somehow found themselves nestled in the middle of

Henrik and Konstantin: German Entrepreneurs in Colombia

August 26, 2016

Culture·Interviews

Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you ended up in Colombia? Henrik: I came to Colombia first in 2013. At that time I was studying Latin American Studies in Berlin, where a lot of people told me the best of things about Colombia and especially about Medellín.

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