Five essays. Five ways to understand Colombia before travelling through it.
Bogotá carries five centuries on its back — and wears them all at once.
Colombia is understood in acts.
El Dorado never existed the way the Spanish imagined it. But the obsession it generated does.
Aracataca didn't give him metaphors. It gave him facts.
Colombia is the only country on the planet where in two weeks you can walk through snow, páramo, cloud forest, savannah, rainforest, and beach.
