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Andes Surrounding Bogota Program
TOP 20 THINGS TO DO IN COLOMBIA
This module
provides a fantastic program for visiting the most fabulous highlights of
the Andes surrounding Bogota.
The latter serves as the hub for the Colombia's National Parks Tour and all
other As the Amazon of Colombia is not safe, we offer the
Amazon Ecuador module, which you
can include in your international flight at very little additional costs.. This module is the baseline for our
National Parks Tour Module,
each components of the Colombia National Parks Tour. The Ecuador Amazon module
can be taken at the beginning and the end of your visit to Colombia.
Things to do in Colombia
Day 1 of the
Andes
program
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Transfer from the
airport to your hotel, 10 minutes away from the airport;
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Depending on your arrival time, we like to take you on a
brief city tour to historic Bogota to enjoy it in the late afternoon sunlight;
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Dinner may be
taken in the center, so that you may walk back to the Plaza Bolivar at night to enjoy
the buildings in the splendor of their evening illumination;
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Return to your hotel.
 
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The dynamic city of Bogota seen
from the Montserrat Church. |
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The National Cathedral in Bogota at
the Plaza Bolivar. |
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Day 2 of the Andes
program
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Morning walk
along the highlights of old town Bogota with its gorgeous colonial churches,
palaces, manors and streets;
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Lunch somewhere
in old town Bogota;
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Visit the Montserrat Church with the cable cart or
funicular train;
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Visit the famous Gold Museum with a fantastic Pre-Colombian collection - the best in
the country;
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Spend the night in the hotel.
 
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The San Agustin Church, exterior. |
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Cobbled stones in the center of
old town create a wonderful ancient atmosphere. |
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Day 3 of the Andes
program
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Travel by road to
Villa de Leyva;
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On the way stop at the Boyaca national monument, where the deciding independence
battle took place, liberating Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador from Spain.
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Visit Villa de Leyva in after light;
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Have diner in one of the many cozy restaurant in the
center of town;
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Spend the night
at your hotel near the plaza central.
 
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Villa de Leyva is the second
most famous colonial town in Colombia after Cartagena. |
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Lovely cobbled streets with
typical Spanish colonial balconies line the streets. |
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Day 4 of the Andes
program
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Leave early in the morning for a day hike to the paramo
of
Iguaque Flora and Fauna Reserve;
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Visit the Fossil and the Paleontological Research Center
museums;
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Spend the night
at your hotel near the plaza central.
 
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The Santuario de Fauna and Flora
Iguaque has fabulous oak cloud forest as well as
splendid lakes and paramos. |
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Gorgeous flowers can be found, depending on the season. |
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Day 5 of the Andes
program
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After breakfast, travel by road back to Bogota;
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Visit the cute pottery town of
Raquira with pottery
varying in size from 2 cm to 2 meters high;
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After lunch in the the uninteresting town of Chiquinquira, boat excursion on the
peat bordered
Fúquene
Lake;
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Time permitting, visit the most visited attraction around
Bogota, the Zipaquirá Salt Mine church;
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Spend the night in your Bogota hotel.
 
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Raquira pottery is famous in Colombia and varies in
size from 2 cm to 2m tall,. |
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A fabulous shop with café in
Raquira. |
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Day 6 of the Andes
program
 
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White Tailed Deer are
extremely common in the park and remarkably tame. |
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The Chingaza paramo has some of the
best frailejones vegetation in the entire country, just at a
short distance from
Bogota. |
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TOP 20 THINGS TO DO IN COLOMBIA
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