Day Trip · Bogotá
The lake sits above 3,000 m and the walk up is at altitude in cold, wet, exposed conditions. Do not schedule this in your first 48 hours in Bogotá.
A near-perfect circular lake in the páramo where the Muisca covered a new chief in gold dust and floated him out to make offerings. The Spanish tried to drain it. This is the actual source of the El Dorado myth.
Private vehicle, a Muisca-community guide, and Guatavita town and the reservoir added to the day.
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A 220-metre granite monolith with 740 steps zigzagging up its face, and from the top an archipelago of flooded green valleys that looks unreal. Then Guatapé itself, where every building carries a painted zócalo panel.
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$40–$110
per person
Day Trip
The old colonial capital of Antioquia, whitewashed and hot at 550 metres, with cobbled streets, four colonial churches, and a 291-metre suspension bridge from 1895 that was among the first of its kind in the Americas.
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$40–$130
per person
Day Trip
A coffee town that has resisted being modernised, with a painted plaza where the whole town still sits out in the evening, two hand-built cable cars running up opposite valley walls, and some of the best coffee in Antioquia.
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$45–$160
per person
