Want to learn to salsa while on holiday? Head to Cali, Colombia

The parade at the Feria de Cali festival features all the pizzazz and eye-popping outfits of the city’s salsa scene. — Photos: CORFECALI/dpa

Cali, a city of 2.4 million people in the south-west of Colombia, is an increasingly attractive holiday destination for people who want to learn how to dance or perfect their salsa style.

The self-described “capital of salsa” is now home to about 130 dance schools. And there’s a lot of diversity within the traditional Latin American dance: Cuban salsa, Puerto Rican salsa, even versions from New York and Los Angeles.