Cultural Customs

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• Participate in a novena. In December, 9 days before Christmas, every family around the country celebrates a “novena” each night, it’s a reunion in which people pray, sing and gather around to celebrate the arrival of baby Jesus. --magapaz
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• At 6 am in the morning or 6 pm in the evening, the national hymn is played at most of radio stations everyday of the year. --magapaz
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• You must play one of the traditional games of Colombia, named Bolirrana. It consists of a board with holes and the three main holes are with the shape of a frog with its mouth open, you throw some metal hoops and the goal is to get them inside the frogs’ mouths and sum up points. --magapaz
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• If you’re here on the New Year, there’s a celebration called “año viejo” done at New Year’s Eve. It consists of burning up a doll made up of recycled material and old clothes that represents everything that you want to leave behind of the year. The doll gets burned up at 12:00 sharp. --magapaz
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• A typical genre of music created in the coast of the country is Vallenato. You must go to a party of vallenato! --magapaz
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• If you visit during the first week of January, you have to go to the city of Pasto where the Carnaval de Negros y Blancos (black and white carnival) takes place. You’ll enjoy a week full of celebrations and on the last days people paint their faces black or white to celebrate their ethnicities. --magapaz
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• If you visit on late February or beginnings of march, you may have the opportunity to attend the Carnaval the Barranquilla, the second largest carnival in the world. There’s music, shows, parades and even the coronation of the queen of the carnival. --magapaz
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• You must try the sport made up in Colombia that some consider the national sport, it’s named Tejo. It consists of a field in which at the end there’s a base made up of clay and some gunpowder packages buried inside. You throw a heavy metal rock at the base and the goal is to make the gunpowder pop. --magapaz
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• It’s a custom, specially at the city of Cali, to go dancing salsa, one of the typical music genres of Colombia created precisely in Cali. --magapaz
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• Many people that live in Bogota are used to getting to Monserrate, a traditional church located high up in a mountain near the city center, by foot. You should try it at least once! --magapaz
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