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America, where he studied Spanish and worked hard at blending in. After many years working in-house at Lonely Planet, he reviewed Bogotá hotels for Lonely Planet’s website in 2006 and may have written the first-ever ‘hey, Bogotá is actually safe’ article, which appeared in papers such as the Miami Herald. He keeps up his website (www.reidontravel.com) from his home in Brooklyn, NY, and has researched many Lonely Planet guidebooks.

LONELY PLANET AUTHORS

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CÉSAR G SORIANO Boyacá, Santander & Norte de Santander, Amazon Basin

Like many extranjeros, César’s first introduction to Colombian culture was a certain hip-shaking, belly-dancing songstress named Shakira. Since then, this Mexican-American has been properly educated in all things Colombian including arepas, tintos, aguardiente, cumbia, capybaras, beauty pageants and the Santanderan delicacy of fried fat ants. A career journalist and former USA TODAY foreign correspondent, César has authored many other Lonely Planet guidebooks. He has traveled extensively throughout Latin America. César and his wife, Marsha, live in London.

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CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

Dr David Goldberg MD wrote the Health chapter. He completed his training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, where he has also served as voluntary faculty. At present, he is an infectious diseases specialist in Scarsdale, New York, and the editor-in-chief of the website MDTravelHealth.com.

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Behind the Scenes

THIS BOOK

This is the 5th edition of Colombia. Jens Porup served as coordinating author, writing most of the front and back chapters as well as the Medellín & Zona Cafetera, Cali & Southwest Colombia, and Pacific Coast chapters. Kevin Raub covered the Caribbean Coast and San Andrés & Providencia chapters. Robert Reid researched and wrote the History and Bogotá chapters. César Soriano covered the Boyacá, Santander & Norte de Santander and Amazon Basin chapters as well as the Environment chapter. Dr David Goldberg MD contributed the Health chapter. The previous edition of this book was written by Michael Kohn and Robert Landon, and the first three editions were written by Krzysztof Dydyński. This guidebook was commissioned in Lonely Planet’s Oakland office, and produced by the following:

Commissioning Editors Jay Cooke, Kathleen Munnelly

Coordinating Editor Martine Power

Coordinating Cartographer Sam Sayer

Coordinating Layout Designer Carlos Solarte

Managing Editor Brigitte Ellemor

Managing Cartographers Shahara Ahmed, Alison Lyall

Managing Layout Designer Laura Jane

Assisting Editors Justin Flynn, Laura Gibb, Carly Hall, Evan Jones, Averil Robertson, Dianne Schallmeiner, Kate Whitfield

Assisting Cartographer Andy Rojas

Cover Designer Kate Slattery

Project Managers Chris Girdler, Debra Herrmann

Language Content Coordinators Quentin Frayne, Branislava Vladisavljevic

Thanks to Lucy Birchley, Andras Bogdanovits, Jessica Boland, David Carroll, Melanie Dankel, Sally Darmody, Brice Gosnell, Martin Heng, John Mazzocchi, Clara Monitto, Raphael Richards, Brendan Streager

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THANKS

JENS PORUP

Thanks go first to Jay Cooke for