Sea Voyages along the Colombian pacific are now much more comfortable because of the new catamaran “Nemo” Diving tours or simply exotic trips to Gorgona  and Malpelo islands and sea cruises boarding  the coast are able since 2010 –

The ship is provided by all necessary comfort and have the capacity for 12 passengers, min cuantyty is 9.

The length of Nemo is 82 ft

Motor: 2x200 Yanmar.

Tripulation: 7, incluiding  naturalist    - dive master

It has everything nesessary for diving including 2 compressors for Nitrox

Besides it has 8 cabins- 6 dbl rooms and 2 double deck bed rooms, all with private bathrooms and hot water.

It has a terrace, solarium, two dining rooms, it’s own cheff (typical and international food)

The ship can be sold as a charter or individually meanwhile the minimum group of people is 9.

“Nemo” is able to start from Buenaventura port, Guapi port or another point.

The next trips planned for 2010-2011 are: 

May  7 to 13,

June   4 to 10,

July  2 to 8 , 

August  10 to 16,

Sept.  17 to 23,

October 22 to 28,

Nov. 12 to 18,

Dic. 26 to Jan 1 st,

Jan 5 to 11,

Feb. 8 to 14 and  Feb.18 to 24

This April, during biletral intergovernmental  Russian -Colombian commission,  Colombia was visited by two representatives of Russian touristic business- advisor to executive director of the Association of Russian tour operators  Yuri Schegolkov and the director of VSK tour Yuri Kuznetsov.

With the support of our company and Colombian organization Proexport our guests had the opportunity to know Bogota, coffee region and Cartagena.

In the coffee region they visited Coffee park, butterfly garden, Cocora valley, and knew the traditional coffee farms- haciendas. Besides they could “work” as “chapoleros “picking up coffee crop.

In Cartagena they felt all the magic of this Caribbean pearl, could walk along it’s colonial streets and knew the hotel base of the city.

Colombia is waiting for touristic boom in the nearest future, and Russian tourists will be the most precious guests, and they will be  lots - this is the resume of this short but fruitful visit.

By the invitation and a sponsorship support  of Tawi Travel  , the film crew of TV channel Rossiya will visit Colombia again in august . This time the journalists together with Vladislav Zavyalov  - the presenter of  TV program “Good Morning, Russia!” will go to the Caribbean island of San Andres, will be shown how to dance salsa in Cali, will see by their own eyes what does the flower fair in Medellin mean and will talk to Bogota’s major Samuel Moreno in the traditional Sunday’s “ciclovia”. 

So, wait for their reports and films !

From March 18 to 21, 2009 Tawi Travel company was participating again in the international tourist exhibition in Moscow.  Both on our own stand and on the stand of the Colombian organization Proexport, which participated in the exhibition for the first time, and where Tawi Travel was also represented, there was an enormous quantity of visitors, interested in the development of Colombia as new tourist direction.

The participation of Colombia in the exhibition generated a huge interest of visitors, especially because the country abolished visas for the Russian tourists. Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh tour-operators and the representatives of tourist agencies became interested in both the tourist routes and in different nonstandard options of leisure. In such, for example, as tracking, diving, rally.  So that the year promises a notable increase of the tourist flow into the country. At the end of exhibition together with Moscow tour-operator Deotravel, we organized the seminar for the managers of  tourist agencies, dedicated to the new visa-free directions of Latin America, in which more than 20 representatives of tourist business participated.

So that this year promises to be successful in every way, and Colombia will undoubtedly become one of the most favourite directions for the Russian tourists. It worth of it. 

By the invitation of Colombian organization “PROEXPORT”, and also with the assistance of the office of the Vice President of republic Colombia,    the film crew of television channel “Russia”, together with Vladislav Zavyalov, who carries on TV program “Good morning, Russia!”, visited many interesting places in Colombia. Here you can look through the photographs, taken during a stay of our guests.

In order to continue so successfully initiated  in the previous year tradition, Tawi Travel this year will participate in the exhibition “MITT- 2009”, which will take place on March 18 -  22 in the Expocentre of Moscow.

Our stand F008 is in the pavilion forum.

So, we are awaiting on our stand for all, who loves Colombia irrevocably, for all, who were there before, and also for those, who only would like to visit it, to look themselves and to show it to others.  

Source www.votpusk.ru. 2007
The minister of tourism of Colombia Louis Guillermo Plata reported about the creation of fund for the development of tourist projects in some regions of the country. This project, which possesses the initial capital, exceeding 5 billion pesos (2,5 million dollars), will begin to function in the middle of this year. In the future, for the advance of Colombia on the tourist market, it will be invested about 10 million American dollars. As for the building of new hotels, the minister reported that there are more than 12 projects of hotel sector, mainly in Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena. Were named such networks of hotels as Dann, Holiday Inn, Decameron, Marriott, Hilton and only beginning hotel  networks, such as Windsor, Morrison and Habitel.
In 2007 1,2 million foreign tourists visited Colombia.
It is assumed that in 2008 this number will increase by 15%. Also last year the country accepted 99 cruises with 126 thousand tourists. A considerable increase of a similar form of leisure is expected in 2008.

If earlier the name of this country for the majority of people was associated with the myths, the cocaine barons, the action movies and the mystical Eldorado, then now many people at the sound of word "Columbia" more and more people think about liposuction, silicone breasts and tightening of face.

The clinics of plastic surgery are scattered around the entire country and are attended by thousands of the foreign citizens, who arrive specially to improve their appearance during the vacation.People are attracted by low prices, good service and high level of the professionalism of the physicians

The well developed network of medical establishments is considered to be the prerequisite for such an influx of foreign patients. And they, in turn, arose because Columbians themselves in recent years paid much attention to their appearance and demand for the plastic surgery rapidly rose.