Bogota Tours

Private and small-group tours in Bogotá: La Candelaria and the old town, Monserrate, street art, tejo, street food, and day trips to the Salt Cathedral and Guatavita.

2-Day Tour: Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral & Villa de Leyva

Group photo inside the Salt Cathedral during a 2 day tour Zipaquira Villa de Leyva, with blue-lit tunnels, a glowing cross, and carved salt sculptures in the background.

Two Days From Bogotá to Colombia’s Highlands A 2-day tour from Zipaquirá to Villa de Leyva takes you from Bogotá into two of Colombia’s most compelling destinations — and brings you back with a completely different understanding of what this country has to offer beyond its capital. This is a private, guided overnight trip that…

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Bogotá Graffiti Tour: 3-Hour Street Art Walk Through La Candelaria

group of tourists standing in front of a vibrant street art mural featuring stylized human faces and symbolic imagery in Bogotá Colombia

A Bogotá Graffiti Tour: Three Hours Reading La Candelaria’s Walls A graffiti tour in La Candelaria is one of the most honest ways to read Bogotá — and one of the most overlooked. Most visitors to the neighborhood walk past large, colorful murals covering the sides of colonial buildings and see something visually impressive but…

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Food Tour in La Candelaria, Bogotá: Street Food, Obleas & Coffee

tourists eating oblea bogota cololmbia

A Food Tour in La Candelaria: Bogotá’s Culinary Identity, One Dish at a Time A food tour in La Candelaria is one of the most direct ways to understand Bogotá as a city rather than as a collection of monuments. The neighborhood where the city began in 1538 is also where its most enduring food…

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Chicaque Natural Park: Cloud Forest and Birdwatching

Birdwatching Day Trip from Bogotá to Chicaque Natural Park This day trip to Chicaque Natural Park takes you somewhere most visitors to the city never find — and that’s exactly the point. Chicaque sits just 30 kilometers southwest of the capital, but the moment you enter the cloud forest, Bogotá is gone. What replaces it…

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Birdwatching at the Heart of Bogotá: A 4-Hour Birding Trail at Monserrate

Birdwatching at Monserrate: Colombia’s Most Underrated Birding City, at 3,152 Meters Birdwatching in Bogotá surprises most visitors — not because the city is a known destination for birders, but because it absolutely should be. Colombia holds more bird species than any other country on earth, and Bogotá, sitting at 2,640 meters in the Andes, is…

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Tejo Tour Bogota: Private Beer and Colombian Sport Experience

Travelers learning the rules before a tejo game at La Embajada in Bogotá, Colombia.

Tejo and Beer in Bogotá: Colombia’s National Sport A tejo tour in Bogotá is the fastest way to go from tourist to honorary local. Tejo is Colombia’s national sport — a game where you throw heavy steel discs at small packets of gunpowder embedded in clay, and when your aim is true, the target explodes…

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El Paraíso Favela Tour: Private Metrocable Experience in Bogotá

Cable cars passing over colorful murals on the El Paraíso Favela Tour in Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá, Colombia.

The El Paraíso Favela Tour: Community-Led Transformation on Bogotá’s Southern Slopes The El Paraíso Favela Tour takes you beyond Bogotá’s colonial center and into the hillside neighborhoods that most visitors never reach. This is not a tour for checking boxes. It is a private, guided walk through one of the city’s most compelling stories of…

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Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral & Guatavita Lake: Shared Tour from Bogotá

The Salt Cathedral The Salt Cathedral at Zipaquirá has a longer history than the building that stands today. Salt has been extracted from this site since pre-Columbian times, when the Muisca people mined it and traded it across the highlands. Colonial-era miners carved the first shrine inside the mine in the early twentieth century as…

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