Bicycle Touring Colombia Guide to Cycling Colombian Andes eBook Tomas Belcik
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This is a straightforward guide to bicycle touring Colombia, whether you want to travel for 6 weeks or 6 days. Written by adventure cyclist Tomas Belcik, it covers routes cycling on main highways, secondary roads, paved roads as well remote dirt and gravel roads. The book focuses on where to go cycling in Colombia and how to structure your itinerary. It addresses a few relevant issues and sorts the country into easily digestible parts.
It is not a comprehensive guidebook repeating the same lists of attractions, accommodations and places where to eat published by every guidebook out there. It does not tell you how to repair a flat tire, not to mention how to adjust your brake or a derailleur.
The guide covers 23 cycling stages. Each stage contains a summary, a GPS track map, an elevation profile, an exclusive link to author’s GPS file of that stage for more interactive details, including a Google Earth animation, a bird’s eye view of each ride from start to finish. Included are also links to over 4,000 photographs which provide more insight into each stage.
You can download the GPS Exchange Format (.gpx) files, the actual author’s GPS tracks of all the stages, and then upload them to your GPS device. The GPS track is your guide taking you by the hand and pointing the way. When you pop one or all of the tracks in your GPS device you’ll instantly know your way. The GPS tracks are invaluable as they’ll save you time trying to find your way. And you can use these tracks even if you may not plan to bicycle, whether you may walk or travel by car. You decide to what extent you wish to follow in author’s footsteps (or, more appropriately, his GPS tracks), or how you may feel is best for you to include some of his routes in your own itinerary. You can deviate from his tracks and even if you so decide his tracks are still there in your device helping maintain your sense or orientation and direction.
Most guidebooks overburden you with information. This is a guide where less is more. It is written by an avid cyclist and a travel professional. It provides you with the right amount of information that stimulates your sense of self-reliance and curiosity, elevates your adventure spirit and feeds your ambition and need for discovery.
Bottom line, Colombia craves to be visited for the freshness of a country not yet spoiled or damaged by mass tourism. Cycling Colombia offers a genuine experience of the local culture and a pace of life unaltered and mutated to adapt to influx of tourists. And for that reason alone, time to visit Colombia is now!
Bicycle Touring Colombia Guide to Cycling Colombian Andes eBook Tomas Belcik
I don’t usually buy guidebooks but planning a trip to Colombia, which is not same as planning a trip to Germany, I looked at the guidebooks available. As I really did not think of doing some bicycling in Colombia I did not look for a cycling guide to Colombia but coming across the tile it caught my attention. I read the few preview pages and although I was skeptical I bought the book. I bought one other guidebook but it did not entice me in any way. This book, however, surprised me. It took my Colombia trip plans to a whole new level. I got excited about wanting to bike just by looking at the author’s great pictures. Then I looked at the GPS track details for each stage and I started to get hooked. The fact that I can actually download the tracks is amazing. At first I thought of going only to Bogotá and may be Medellin but now I decided to bike and follow some of the routes the author describes. I don’t usually write reviews as most of the time I am disappointed but this book is different. It is a perfect guidebook for me and I think for anyone that really wants to see more of Colombia away from the main tourist destinations! And doing it by bicycle seems like the best way to do it!Product details
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Bicycle Touring Colombia Guide to Cycling Colombian Andes eBook Tomas Belcik Reviews
Not a great resource for cycling in Colombia ...would have been nice to have detailed routes safer and more scenic (like the high mountains, or where locals train that might be safer).
This little guide was a nice surprise. It has great back-up materials like GPS coordinates, online photo album and good info on each stop he made. The reason I took off a star is the book is obviously written by a non-native English speaker. Many of the errors were grating but some were confusing. Simply letting someone with good English skills read and edit this would really improve it. It is much better than most self-published travel books but that doesn't excuse the many errors. Hope to see an edited version of this otherwise valuable resource for bicycle tourists.
I don’t usually buy guidebooks but planning a trip to Colombia, which is not same as planning a trip to Germany, I looked at the guidebooks available. As I really did not think of doing some bicycling in Colombia I did not look for a cycling guide to Colombia but coming across the tile it caught my attention. I read the few preview pages and although I was skeptical I bought the book. I bought one other guidebook but it did not entice me in any way. This book, however, surprised me. It took my Colombia trip plans to a whole new level. I got excited about wanting to bike just by looking at the author’s great pictures. Then I looked at the GPS track details for each stage and I started to get hooked. The fact that I can actually download the tracks is amazing. At first I thought of going only to Bogotá and may be Medellin but now I decided to bike and follow some of the routes the author describes. I don’t usually write reviews as most of the time I am disappointed but this book is different. It is a perfect guidebook for me and I think for anyone that really wants to see more of Colombia away from the main tourist destinations! And doing it by bicycle seems like the best way to do it!
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