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POPULATION: 2.1 pop/km²

TEMPERATURE: 28 – 33°C

AVERAGE ELEVATION: 260 masl.

Our experience in the Colombian Amazon is not limited to the city of Leticia and its port, but expands to the Amazonian region. The Amazons encompass a fourth part of the country, where our destinations seem to date back in time to the beginning of days, without the rush of mass tourism. Examples of real jungles are found in the Departments of Vaupés, Guaviare & Guainía, as well as around the capital cities of Mitú, San José de Guaviare & Puerto Inírida. They are truly unimaginable places with pristine, virgin nature surrounded by unique and varied geography. The Escudo Guyanes mountain range produces an isolated terrain of distinctive monoliths, tepuis and steep-walled areas that contrast heavily with the monotone jungles of lower Colombia that grow adjacent to the Amazon river.

This is the reason our tours and travels to the Amazonian jungles are called Expeditions, as Colombian Highlands steers off the common roads to immerse in a region where researchers have been fascinated by the unparalleled and immense terrain known as the South American Amazon.

Mavecure hills, Bocón Canyon, the Orinoco Estrella Fluvial (Riverine Star) of Guainía, Nuevo Tolima Mountains, Ciudad de Piedra (Stone City), Orión Gate, the Natural Bridges of Guaviare, the Guacamayas Mountain Range, the rivers Vaupés, Cananarí or Apaporis and the Morroco Mountains in Vaupes are some of the sites we commonly visit in our adventurous expeditions to unleash the adventurer within us. Hiking these ancestral and indigenous-community ceremonial sites –some as ancient as 2,500 years of traditional use, is an extraordinary travel experience.

POPULATION: 15.000

TEMPERATURE: 16 – 30°C

ALTITUDE: 1.336 masl.

Favored by filmmakers and amateur photographers alike, Barichara is a perfectly preserved example of traditional colonial architecture set amid the stunning mountains.

The town’s narrow streets are lined with colonial era facades featuring bare adobe walls and clay roof tiles that glow in the rich Santander sun. While on weekends it is a popular destination with national travelers, visit during the week and you’ll have the town to yourself to explore at your own pace and set up your tripod for that perfect hot.

Barichara is also known for its fine dining options with several top eateries around town serving up hearty traditional local cuisine including carne oreada, roast goat and the region’s most famous culinary export – hormigas culonas (fat-assed ants). You can eat the crunchy insects by themselves or reinvented in a variety of gourmet dishes.

While it’s difficult to leave the charm of Barichara, the area surrounding the town is full of fascinating activities and hikes, including the three hour trek along the old royal road to the tiny village of Guane.

POPULATION: 160 pop/km²

TEMPERATURE: 24 – 33°C

AVERAGE ELEVATION: 84 masl.

The city of Cartagena is one of the most coveted and visited destinations in the world. A hallmark resort for tourists and travelers in Colombia, Colombian Highlands includes this emblematic city hailed by UNESCO.

To tour its historical center and visit some of its most representative manors, castles, holds, churches and monasteries is like going back in time to the colonial and conquest era to try and imagine the circumstances that brought together indigenous people, African-descendants and Spaniards to create a unique lifestyle.

Beyond Cartagena and other cities like Santa Marta, the Caribbean offers a staggering amount of tour sites, from beautiful white beaches to mangroves, impenetrable jungles, deserts and a myriad of indigenous settlements that strive to maintain their traditional lifestyle, such as the well-known Marhuamake and Nabuzimake settlements close to Valledupar.

The natural appeal of the Caribbean is varied and constantly changing, such as the Tayrona National Park, where beaches, jungles and archeological areas weave nature’s exuberance into the land’s fascinating culture and history. To the north is the Guajira peninsula where the landscape contrasts drastically between humongous cacti in desert areas with coastal lagoons thick with estuaries and mangroves where agile flamencos hunt their prey in shallow waters. Farther to the north the desert becomes more and more rugged until it reaches the Macuira Ridge that rises 864 meters above sea level. Its altitude allows the Ridge to capture the humidity from the sea and create an immense oasis with waterslides and wells ideal to bathe and refresh after the blistering desert heat.

The Colombian Caribbean coast is an endless wonder of unimaginable natural and cultural beauties, a natural pleasure cruise. Lose yourself in one of the most exotic white sand beaches you have ever set your feet upon and enjoy the vacations you always dreamed of.

POPULATION: 187 pop/km²

TEMPERATURE: 15 – 30°C

AVERAGE ELEVATION: 2162 masl.

The Colombian Coffee Growing Axis or Coffee Triangle presents us a wide array of distinctive and unique close-set villages that together produce a never-seen-before experience.

Every step over its intricate mountain range is a feast for the eyes. On one side of the hills, bamboo called in Colombia “Guadua” extends into forest fragments, while in the other beautiful Yarumos provide leafy cover to a numerous array of crops and the mountainside brims with plantations of the world’s softest and most aromatic coffee. Here and there are found the imposing and impossibly high Palmas de Cera (Wax palm, Ceroxylon quindiuense) –the Colombian national tree, which protrudes from the characteristic Andean jungle that blankets this entire region.

Every town and every city is brimming with attentive and careful inhabitants that are sure to wave you through and try to at least say hello using sign language. The ‘paisa’ culture is without a doubt one of the most traditional and kindhearted in Colombia. The mixture of kind people and spectacular views in this huge expanse will transform your Colombian voyage into life-lasting memories and unforgettable experiences of the ‘paisa’ region and way of living.