Fieldwork in the Colombian Amazonia – Rafael O. de Sa – Colombia 2016
A Fulbright award allowed me to travel to Bogota, Colombia to pursue biodiversity research with colleagues at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the SINCHI Amazonic Institute of Scientific Research. During that period, SINCHI colleagues invited me to participate in a field expedition to an area poorly studied along the Vaupes River. The team consisted […]
A House Warming in Bogota – Sam Owens – Colombia 1965
Our group of twenty secondary teachers spent the last four weeks of the summer in Bogota, Colombia’s lofty capital. The most used expression I heard in my sponsor’s home was, “Ay que frio!” It so happened that my charming host family had recently purchased a new home. In accordance with local custom, they planned a […]