THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE. A remote Colombian island located 30 miles off the mainland, the mysterious and isolated former penal colony of Gorgona is today home to a uniquely evolved ecosystem complete with endemic species inhabiting a jungle wilderness. Gorgona was the site of a prison until the mid-1980s, when the government of Colombia formally recognised the island’s outstanding ecological diversity and declared it a national park.

Anyone who visits Santa Marta, Colombia, must visit Tayrona National Park, a natural paradise with some of the best beaches in the world, the mystical Lost City in the nearby mountains and the surrounding estuary mouths of rivers at the Caribbean Sea. It is also worthwhile to visit the small bays and towns nearby to interact with local people and to learn about their customs and culture. These are just some of the ideas revealed through the Inside Word, in which our local partners – all travel experts – share their top tips on what to do, what to eat, where to party and where to shop in their necks of the woods.

School is back in session and summer is sadly coming to an end in the northern hemisphere. Luckily many holiday deals are commencing. To help you make a decision about where to go to satisfy any unfulfilled travel cravings, the WHL Group presents here five of its favourite off-season autumn holiday destinations in Antigua & Barbuda, China, Colombia, Lithuania and Tunisia.

THIS ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, PORTIGUESE, FRENCH AND GERMAN. The Caribbean port of Cartagena, Colombia, is an attractive winter escape that lives up to its romantic reputation as a city of rich history interwoven with a vivacious culture full of music, tasty cuisine and good-humoured people.

A Buritaca sunset is unique. Here, a local child basks in its glory while walking along the river of the same name that flows into the Caribbean Sea. Buritaca is located at the base of the northern foothills of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada, 50 minutes from Santa Marta. In recent years it has become a popular…