Villa de Leyva is reviving its Muisca heritage and colonial past through storytelling, performance and ancestral foods. Want a taste of history?
With 2019 marking a record year for the Colombian tourism sector, President Iván Duque announced a benchmark of 6 million visitors for this year.
The country’s most famous fiesta is set to take to the streets and a four-day revelry that consumes Barranquilla.
The popular beach of Playa Blanca on the peninsula of Barú has reopened to tourists with strict measures announced to ensure public safety with watersports.
Zipaquira? is one of Bogotá’s many satellite communities and known for it’s cavernous Catedral de Sal. But there is more to see than columns of salt and crosses.
The UK Government has launched a local manual so that Britons can travel safely in Colombia.
Cartagena, like many other Colombian cities, moves to its own rhythm with rickety carts serving as their informal food stalls or for moving heavy materials.
Bogotá’s Séptima is an obligatory stroll down memory lane, layered by architectural disorder within an urban context.
In Colombia, the road most traveled is also the one with the best pit stops and service stations. If inclined to tour the countryside here, four recommendations.
Our Bogota? street reporter par excelence travels the open road to Huila and discovers a genuine Colombian experience, tinted with Kerouacian nostalgia.
The international recognition of “Remando por la Paz” on the rafting circuit gives ex-FARC combatants employment opportunities in sports and eco-tourism.
The Parque de la Independencia and environs express the quirky, offbeat street culture of the capital. Take a walk!
The improved security situation across Colombia is presenting many with the option of living in smaller cities, and that offer good quality of life and new-found business opportunities.
Hiking in high altitude near Laguna de Tota, lots of colonials haciendas, and ruana shopping in Nobsa are some of the attractions of visiting the Valley of Sogamoso.
Our expert street guide Jimmy Weiskopf continues his exploits in one of Bogotá’s less frequented districts for tourists, but with a fascinating past: Los Mártires.
As the country celebrates 200 years of Independence, The City Paper follows the trail of the Liberator from Tame in Arauca, through Casanare, and into the mountains of Boyaca?.