Magical scenery, vibrant cities, exciting ruins, colourful colonial cities and beautiful beaches.
Our tours to Colombia offer great diversity and great contrasts in history, nature and culture.
Check out all our tours to Colombia below.
If you have any questions, please call our travel consultants on 01279 704 135.
Magical scenery, vibrant cities, exciting ruins, colourful colonial cities and beautiful beaches.
Our tours to Colombia offer great diversity and great contrasts in history, nature and culture.
Check out all our tours to Colombia below.
If you have any questions, please call our travel consultants on 01279 704 135.
Colombia offers some of South America’s best kept secrets:
Caribbean beaches, snowy Andes mountains, lush coffee plantations, fascinating deserts, colourful and charming cobblestone colonial towns, modern cities and the Amazon jungle.
Discover a diversity in the population, the history, the nature and in the experiences on offer, found in very few other places in the world.
Welcome to Colombia!
Whatever tour to Colombia you choose, you will come right up close to Colombia’s exciting attractions and Colombian charm. What’s more, all tours can be rounded off with a relaxing beach holiday on beautiful, Caribbean beaches.
Below you can read about some of the highlights you can experience on a holiday in Colombia.
Bogotá is Colombia’s cosmopolitan capital.
The city is situated at 2,600 AMSL, making it the third highest capital in the world.
In Bogotá, you will discover a beautiful mix of modern architecture and old colonial buildings.
The old colonial neighbourhood of La Candelaria oozes history, and with its narrow streets and colourful buildings, the area is just asking to be admired and photographed.
Bogotá’s highlights also include:
A visit to Colombia’s famous Coffee Region is in many ways like coming to a completely different country – a striking contrast to Bogotá’s more hectic city life.
Here, you will find scenic, lush and very green countryside.
The area is, as the name suggests, famous for its coffee, but fruit such as pineapple and mango is also grown here. There are in addition many birds, including hummingbirds and parrots.
Learn about the art of growing coffee on a traditional coffee farm, and activate all your senses as you smell and taste it.
If you’ve not yet had your fill of the Coffee Region, you might like to visit to the impressive Cocora Valley. Discover Colombia’s national tree, the wax palm, or palma de cera, which, reaching a height of 60 metres, is the highest in the world.
North-west of Bogotá lies Colombia’s second largest city, Medellín, which is renowned for its mild climate, hence its nickname: the city of eternal spring.
Of all cities, Medellin has undergone a wonderful transformation.
From once having been the capital of the drug cartels headed by Pablo Escobar, Medellín was voted the world’s most innovative city in 2013. And besides being a modern city with abundant art and culture, Medellín is also the country’s financial and industrial centre.
On a guided tour of the city, you will be brought face to face with its amazing transformation in areas such as Comuna 13, where you will gain an insight into the city’s history. Among other things, you will see the beautiful, colourful graffiti walls, where local artists have interpreted the history of Medellin and Comuna 13.
If you have any time left over, you can go for a ride on the city’s metro to Plaza Botero in Medellín’s historic city centre. Here, you will find 23 of the great artist Botero’s spectacular figures. Next to the square is Rafael Uribe’s Palace and the Antioquia Museum.
In northern Colombia lies the romantic coastal colonial city of Cartagena, one of the country’s biggest highlights.
The city is a melting pot of exciting culture, interesting history and picturesque colonial architecture.
Discover, for example:
Cartagena appeals to the senses with Caribbean scents, colours and Cumbia rhythms.
Situated at an altitude 900-1,200 metres, deep inside the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains in northern Colombia, is Colombia’s answer to Machu Picchu: Ciudad Perdida or Lost City.
Lost City, a pre-Columbian ruin complex, was built in around 800 AD by the indigenous Tairona people. The city, which is only accessible on foot, was abandoned at around the same time that the Spanish colonists arrived in Colombia. It was then forgotten until its rediscovery by treasure hunters in 1976.
This 35-hectare area is made up of a complex system of buildings, roads and stairways, connected by more than 150 terraces, squares and stone roads, scattered up and down the mountainsides.
On the 50 km-long trek to Lost City, you will learn all the secrets of the city and the area. Unleash the Indiana Jones in you as you make your way through thick jungle, up steep stretches and across a number of rivers before finally climbing the 1,200 stone steps to the top, all in the humid, baking heat.
A lost city trek is not for the faint hearted!
But when you reach the top, the trek culminates in the most wonderful view of the ruin complex and its stunning location deep inside the jungle.
Round off your tour with a beach holiday in Barú.
We’ve put together information and answers to practical questions about Colombia on our practical information page.
You are also very welcome to contact our travel consultants. They are on hand to help you with any questions you may have about Colombia, our tours or our other destinations in South America.
We look forward to sending you on the holiday of your lifetime!
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