Colombia: The Next Tourist Hotspot

by Sarah Richard

翻譯：寒星

Colombia: The Next Tourist Hotspot

哥倫比亞：旅游熱點(diǎn)下一站

by Sarah Richard

翻譯：寒星

Track 6

位于南美洲的哥倫比亞共和國(guó)是一個(gè)資源豐富的發(fā)展中國(guó)家。在那里，你會(huì)看到一些具有殖民地色彩的小城，感受不一樣的異域風(fēng)情。這個(gè)國(guó)家的名勝古跡名揚(yáng)世界，公元16、17世紀(jì)所建的大學(xué)、博物館、天文臺(tái)及教堂等古老建筑迄今仍保存完好。當(dāng)你來(lái)到哥倫比亞，你定會(huì)折服于當(dāng)?shù)厝四怯崎e的生活和友好的態(tài)度。而如若你是名咖啡愛好者，那么你就更不應(yīng)該錯(cuò)過(guò)這個(gè)以生產(chǎn)咖啡為主的農(nóng)業(yè)國(guó)。

I arrived in Cali, the second largest city in Colombia. The sun was truly shining. Cali was great, the people there were friendly and helpful.

One thing I knew about Colombia before I came was the coffee. I drank it every day while dreaming about South American adventures in my cold, wet hometown of England.

What I wasn’t prepared for was the beauty there. Even the bus ride was a pleasure, which is a sentence I never thought I would say in South America. The scene was so unexpected, I didn’t1)imagineColombia to have this much beauty. There lay fresh mountain2)waterfallsas well as3)luminous greenhills at every turn, it was so amazing!

1) imagine [?,m?d??n] v. 想象

2) waterfall [,w??t?f??l] n. 瀑布

3) luminous green 亮綠色

Bogota was my next stop.On arrivalit was a dull city with nothing different from any other.

Then I opened my eyes and my heart. Bogota has4)capturedme, I belonged to the city now.

The smiles from the locals were5)infectious, love was poured from their hearts.

At frst, I was6)warywhen people7)approachedme on the street. But eventually, I realized how kind these people were, and how much they cared about the tourists.

Asking for directions was different from other countries in South America, you would get the directions and a warming smile.

For me, Bogota and the Colombian people changed my view on everything. I took a walk alone one night to pick up some8)groceries, it was dark, and I was in an unkown neighborhood. Yet, all I could think about was how safe I felt, I almost felt like I was in my local town. People smiled andcarried onwith their own business. I walked slower and stayed for longer, that moment, I knew I had to change foreigners’opinion on Colombia.

The only disadvantage to the city, however, was the weather. I needed to get some sun on my9)paleskin, so along with two amazing Colombian friends I had made in Bogota, we headed to the sunshine coast ofCartagena注注：卡塔赫納（Cartagena），哥倫比亞北部的主要港口之一。它是一座歷史名城，也是聞名遐邇的游覽勝地。. The beaches were not ones of10)exoticpictures, but as I knew by now, it was all about the people who you meet along the way, not the scenery anymore.

Thinking about the last month in Colombia, I couldn’t believe how much I had fallen in love with it. I’ve done 7 countries in 7 months and over 25 in my lifetime, and Colombia isright up thereat number one! It was kind of like a holiday romance. I will always love Colombia and anyone that tells you it is dangerous has11)obviouslynever been there before.

詞組加油站

on arrival抵達(dá)時(shí)，一到那里

carry on繼續(xù)

right up there幾乎成功

4) capture [,k?pt??] v. 吸引（注意），俘獲

5) infectious [?n,fek??s] adj. 有感染力的

6) wary [,we?r?] adj. 小心翼翼的，警惕的

7) approach [?,pr??t?] v. 走近，靠近

8) grocery [,gr??s?r?] n.（復(fù)）食品，雜貨

9) pale [pe?l] adj. 蒼白的

10) exotic [?g,z?t?k] adj. 異國(guó)情調(diào)的，異常美麗的

11) obviously [,?bv??sl?] adv. 明顯地

我來(lái)到了哥倫比亞的第二大城市—卡利。當(dāng)時(shí)的太陽(yáng)火辣辣的。卡利真是棒極了，那兒的人們既友善又樂(lè)于助人。

在來(lái)到以前，我唯一知道的有關(guān)哥倫比亞的東西是這里的咖啡。在陰冷潮濕的倫敦老家，我每天一邊喝著用哥倫比亞咖啡豆沖出來(lái)的咖啡，一邊幻想著在南美洲上的奇遇。

讓我毫無(wú)心理準(zhǔn)備的，是當(dāng)?shù)氐拿馈＜幢闶亲卉嚦鲂幸彩且患?lè)事，而我從沒想過(guò)我會(huì)在踏足南美洲時(shí)說(shuō)出這樣一句話。那里的景致實(shí)在出乎意料，我不曾想象哥倫比亞會(huì)有這般美景。每一處轉(zhuǎn)角都能看見清新的山間瀑布和鮮亮翠綠的山峰，簡(jiǎn)直妙極了！

波哥大是我的第二站。剛來(lái)到的時(shí)候，我感覺它就是一座枯燥無(wú)趣的城市，與其他地方并無(wú)區(qū)別。

可后來(lái)我敞開了眼界和心扉。波哥大把我俘獲了，如今我已心歸此處。

當(dāng)?shù)厝四樕系男θ輼O具感染力，他們對(duì)別人的關(guān)愛也是發(fā)自內(nèi)心。

起初，當(dāng)大街上的人們向我靠近時(shí)，我是警惕著的。不過(guò)到最后，我意識(shí)到這些當(dāng)?shù)厝苏娴氖钟焉疲麄冋娴氖株P(guān)照游客。

在哥倫比亞問(wèn)路跟在其他南美洲國(guó)家問(wèn)路不太一樣，你所得到的不僅是方向的指引，還有溫暖的笑容。

對(duì)于我來(lái)說(shuō)，波哥大和哥倫比亞人改變了我對(duì)所有事情的看法。有天晚上，我獨(dú)自走去采購(gòu)一些日用品，天已經(jīng)很黑，而我正走在一個(gè)并不熟悉的街區(qū)里。但是，我的總體感覺是自己非常安全，感覺幾乎就像是在家鄉(xiāng)的鎮(zhèn)上一樣。人們一邊對(duì)著我微笑，一邊繼續(xù)忙著自己的事情。我開始放慢腳步，還多待了一會(huì)兒。在那個(gè)時(shí)候，我認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該要改變外國(guó)人對(duì)哥倫比亞的既定印象。

盡管如此，這座城市唯一的缺點(diǎn)便是天氣。我想要給我那蒼白的膚色加上一點(diǎn)太陽(yáng)的色調(diào)，于是我和兩個(gè)在波哥大結(jié)交的非常棒的哥倫比亞朋友，一起來(lái)到了卡塔赫納的陽(yáng)光海岸。這里的沙灘并不像照片中看到的那些異國(guó)沙灘，但現(xiàn)在在我看來(lái)，它所關(guān)乎的全是你在路上遇到的人，而不再是景色了。

回想起在哥倫比亞的最后一個(gè)月，我無(wú)法相信自己有多么深愛這個(gè)國(guó)家。七個(gè)月內(nèi)，我去了七個(gè)國(guó)家，而且我到現(xiàn)在已去了超過(guò)25個(gè)國(guó)家。在這些國(guó)家之中，哥倫比亞幾乎在我心里排第一位！這有點(diǎn)兒像是一段發(fā)生在假期中的浪漫故事。我會(huì)一直熱愛哥倫比亞這個(gè)國(guó)家，如果有人告訴你它是一個(gè)危險(xiǎn)的國(guó)度，那么顯然他之前從未到過(guò)那里。