Nature · Bogotá
This goes to 3,200–3,800 m — well above Bogotá. Cold, wet and exposed with no shelter, and the altitude is the real difficulty rather than the walking. Requires a park permit we arrange in advance. Not suitable in your first days at altitude, in pregnancy, or with cardiac or respiratory conditions.
Páramo is a high Andean moorland that exists almost nowhere else on earth, and it supplies most of Bogotá’s drinking water. Thousands of silver frailejones standing in the mist, glacial lakes, and spectacled bear country.
Private permit and vehicle, a park biologist as guide, and a route away from the standard visitor loop.
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A commuter cable car that climbs out of the valley, over the barrios, and deposits you in a cloud forest 2,000 metres up. Arví is a pre-Hispanic landscape of stone paths and silence, twenty minutes and a world away from Provenza.
From
$22–$75
per person
Nature
Fourteen hectares of tropical garden in the middle of the city, under a canopy of timber-and-steel "flower-trees" that is one of the best pieces of architecture in Colombia. Free, shaded, and full of iguanas.
Entry fee
Free entry
paid on the door
Nature
Deep green river pools in the eastern Antioquian hills, surrounded by forest, where Medellinenses go at weekends to swim and cook by the water. Warm, low and about as far from a city as an hour and a half gets you.
From
$30–$75
per person
