The idea behind this rafting project, and if f others like it, these rural tourison projects, is to give a livelihood. But i think the problem is that these arroas are very hard to get to. About ten per cent of there of their visitors so far have been foreigner - most of them columbian.
Vast stretches of the temperate world are baking or burning, and as climate change marches on widespread heatwaves will
only grow more intense and more common. After a half-century of insurgency, some rebels of Colombia’s disbanded FARC group needed a new calling: they have become
tour guides. And a look at where Ukraine can
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