Girardot’s strategic location on the Magdalena River has historically attracted commerce. The city is home to the annual Tourism Pageant that celebrates regional diversity.
Once a corridor used for moving hostages from the interior to the eastern plains, peace and tranquility have returned to the Páramo de Sumapaz, an outing close to the capital.
Two hours northeast of Bogota?, visitors can step back in time to an age of coal and makeshift mines. The small town of Tausa now wants to reel-in tourists.
For a lush, mountainous hiking escape just a few miles and a world away from Bogotá, take a trek from Tena to Bojacá.
A lagoon is blanketed by clouds and wild frailejón in the high-altitude wetland of Sumapaz.