Colombia Travel Podcast with Mariana Ospina

society, culture, places, travel, documentary, education · EN-US

Mariana Ospina settles in one part of Colombia, learns it properly, then moves somewhere connected to it. She travels the way a resident would. Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the North Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, and between those coasts lie flat lowlands, high Andes and the open Llanos. The show's range covers Bogotá's high Andean setting, Cali's position in the country's interior, the Caribbean port of Cartagena, and the sparsely populated Llanos grasslands to the south and east. Those last open plains are where the country's population thins out, unlike the agricultural north and west. The show unfolds over time. Mariana returns to places in different seasons, watches how the high Andes, the Caribbean coast and the Llanos change with rain and sun, and lets knowledge accumulate the way it does when you stay somewhere. That is how a stranger becomes a resident. Mariana Ospina lives in Colombia and stays for two year