10 Tours in Colombia That You Shouldn't Miss

July 19, 2021 Emerita Lamoureux

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1. Private Transfer From Cartagena Airport to Hotel in the City

Cartagena, Cartagena, Cartagena District, Bolivar Department Guianza Express Tours Guides Y Transportation
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5.0 based on 9 reviews

We will be waiting for your arrival  at the airport carrying a sign with your name on it. you will be picked up for our friendly driver who will help you to carry your luggage and he will drive you safely to your hotel in the city

Inclusions: One-way private transfer

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Reviewed By Kasianbeauti

It was quite a long trip but the tour guide could speak English and was very informative. It was a little longer than I expected so make sure you eat before you go on the trip.

2. Night Bike Tour In Medellin, Typical food and Spectacular Viewpoints

Parroquia San Joaquín, Cl. 42 ##69-06, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia Green Bike Tour Medellin
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5.0 based on 20 reviews

We are the only night bike tour in Medellin with experience doing it for more than 2 years, having the safer route for every one, where we visit touristic places and mostly local places where just local people go at night. It is a unique experience to understand and live the enviroment of Medellin at night with local guides who knows where to go and where not to go. We will visit the most spectacular viewpoint of Medellin at Night, perfect to take the best pictures of your trip.

Inclusions: Use of bicycle, Bike helmet, Coffee and/or Tea, Local guide

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Reviewed By benjamincH2416GI

I did a night tour and it was one of my favorite experiences in Medellin. The city was beautiful at night and my guide was great. I would definitely recommend this to anyone visiting Medellin.

3. Paraglading Adventure | Half Day Tour

Green Bike Tour Medellin
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This paraglading tour is an unique experience because you feel the adrenaline while you see all the city under you, you will have the best views of all Medellin city that you can imagine and you can ask to the pilots to make tricks in the air. If you are looking for something unusual, different, unique and exciting this tour is for you!

Inclusions: Paraglading equipment, Air-conditioned vehicle, Private transportation

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Reviewed By benjamincH2416GI

I did a night tour and it was one of my favorite experiences in Medellin. The city was beautiful at night and my guide was great. I would definitely recommend this to anyone visiting Medellin.

4. Full Day Boat Rental with Captain in Cartagena

Todomar CHL Marina Bocagrande, 2nda, Cartagena, Provincia de Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia Arco Iris Boats
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Enjoy the best experience in our private boats in the company of family or friends, the boat is yours during the day, you can set sail at the time of your preference, you must arrive at 5:00 pm approx, visit the places that you like the most, You can swim in the crystalline sea, the tour is up to you or we can recommend the best tour, you can have lunch on the island of your preference or simply rest a little on one of them, if you want to party we also have the best plan for friends or farewell single

Inclusions: Ice and waters, All Fees and Taxes, Captain and crew member, Fuel

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Reviewed By laurajeans2013

Recently my Colombian boyfriend and two other couples took a private day trip of the Rosario Islands, Isla Cholon, and Barú. The boat is very clean and wonderfully spacious. The crew was amazing, catering to providing ice, filing our drinks, taking us to really special and private places around the islands, and always wearing a smile! They helped with lunch and the best part: you can hook up your music to the awesome sound system on board. I highly recommend this company as they were safe, responsible, and enjoyable! It was such a wonderful experience we booked the same pilot two days late for another trip to the islands!!!!

5. Half-day Coffee Plantation Private Tour: Learn everything about coffee with us

MedellinDayTrips
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Our half-day coffee private tour is a 2019 Travelers' Choise Award Winner, the highest honor TripAdvisor can give. We assure you, you will never think the same about coffee after taking this coffee tour with us. So the question is: Is there a coffee plantation tour close to Medellin that can be done in half a day? Of course there is! And we designed it thinking of your needs and budget. It is only 30 minutes away from El Poblado and though it is near Medellin, the scenery is absolutely different and spectacular. The coffee production stages you will see and participate in this coffee tour are: • Planting the seeds • Picking the ripe beans selectively • Depulping • Fermenting and washing • Drying • Threshing • Roasting • Grinding • Packing With all the knowledge you receive in this tour we ensure you will be in capacity of running your own coffee farm in the future, imagine how detailed it is. Look no more and book now, we are available everyday!

Inclusions: Driver/guide, Local guide, Professional guide, Hotel pickup and drop-off, Coffee farm fees, Coffee and/or Tea, Private transportation, Delicious home-made traditional snack

Exclusions: Lunch

Reviewed By MarcColombia

We had a great horseback riding trip, with beautiful scenery. Diego our guide explained a lot about the history of the area and was always very concerned about our safety. He gave us a great experience. Definitely recommended

6. The Bogotá food experience

The Cranky Croc Hostel, Cl. 12d #346, Bogotá, Colombia The True Colombian Experience
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we visit 7 places where we try food from 7 diferent Colombian Regions and also we have the oportunity of to look how the best baristas prepare the best coffee. The perfect way to get in touch with the culture, history and the flavours of Colombia. It’s a very natural way to be together with the native people and interact with them; at the market and the barista place for example. We get to know more about native cuisine; because bogota is a capital where all the people do live; so you really get the opportunity of to try traditional food from all around the country; just in one city. Perfect for get to know in one afternoon the country; travelin by or regional food. this experience is super friendly with vegetarian people.

Inclusions: We get to try all the different Colombian food By samples. Enough to get full., Dinner, Alcoholic Beverages, Coffee and/or Tea

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Reviewed By 379lea

If you are ever in Colombia be sure to get outside of Bogota - this hike is worth the trip... its challenging and fun; once in a lifetime experience to have. So grab your family and take your friends on an adventure over the countryside and through the jungle. Oh, and be sure to get Fredy, he's an awesome guide to have along your side. Promise you won't be disappointed spending the day exploring God's beautiful earth!

7. Guatape Tour, Piedra del Peñol Including a Boat Tour

Parque de El Poblado, Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia Viaja Medellin
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Guatape, this eastern Antioquia municipality, located an hour and a half from Medellin, opens a world of color among its streets, adorned with baseboards that tell stories of the town and its people. They also call it the interior sea of Antioquia, the Acapulco of Colombia, the interior Cartagena, Paraíso Paisa, Remanso de Paz, the heart of Antioquia's East. It was named in honor of Cacique Guatapé, an inhabitant of this territory in the pre-Hispanic period. Another name he has had is the Ceja de Guatapé. The Rock of Guatapé or Piedra del Peñol, is a monolith 220 meters high located in Guatapé (Antioquia, Colombia). The Stone of El Peñol, composed of quartz, feldspar and mica, was climbed for the first time on July 16, 1954 by an inhabitant of the area, Luis Eduardo Villegas López. in the company of Ramon Diaz and Pedro Nel Ramírez until now the stone still belongs to the Villegas family. You can now access its summit by climbing 740 steps built in the monolith.

Inclusions: Breakfast, Lunch, Professional tour guide, Boat tour of the Guatapé dam with crossover music, Travel insurance, Visit to the Roca del Peñol Church, Visit to the Peñol stone and Guatape , Ruins of the Hacienda La Manuela by Pablo Escobar (Panoramic from the boat)

Exclusions: the entrance to climb the peñol stone is not included, approximately 6USD (20,000 Colombian pesos)

Reviewed By Rockrider88

The tour was excellent, all thanks to Mauricio. It was informative, safe and fun, highly recomend this company.

8. Freedom Tour of Palenque

Travel Palenque
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The Freedom Tour is the most authentic tour offered in San Basilio de Palenque given by certified guides that are native to the community. We offer door to door transportation in comfortable AC cars with flexible pick up time to fit any schedule. Visitors are able to learn about incredible history of the community and feel the African essence that the community has maintained alive for over four centuries. During this tour our guests will hear traditional music, see the practice of traditional medicine in person, learn about the unique language that exists in the community and much more. More than traveling is living grand experiences.

Inclusions: Typical Palenquero lunch with refreshment, Air-conditioned vehicle, Transportation to and from hotel in Cartagena, Profesional local, Demonstration of traditional dance and music, Traditional welcome drink made with locally made rum

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Reviewed By tomcP1812DV

We had a great time . The tour guide was a genuinely nice person but as mentioned before he is more reserved and not very talkative. I speak English and my wife speaks Spanish so she was able to communicate better even though he did speak some English. I am a very big guy and the horses they gave me were very well behaved and had no problems getting me where I needed to go. We went on about a two and a half hour ride and it was more than enough for me. I'm sure you could go farther if you were a bit more of an experienced rider and had the desire to go farther. We did see wild parrots and that was the first time for me. The guide did tell us there was the possibility of seeing a monkey but unfortunately I did not see one on my trip. The lunch was outstanding it was home-cooked over an open fire stove. The bathrooms were clean and all of the people seemed very happy that we were there. I have been on many horseback rides around the world and I really enjoyed this one. This course even though it was a little more difficult than where I have been in the past the guides were right there to help us every step of the way. They even offered to walk by our horse if we needed. With the guides right there with us I would have felt very comfortable with my 8-year-old son if he had been with us. I felt very safe throughout this trip. Tom Casey

9. Walking Tour in La Candelaria Bogotá

Plazoleta Chorro de Quevedo, Cl. 12b #22 2-98, Bogotá, Colombia Gran Colombia Tours
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Join us in this amazing free walking tour through Bogotá's downtown district and learn all about the city's history and culture, making friends along the way. La Candelaria is a creative hot-spot of Bogotá. There’s nothing like it anywhere else in this sprawling city. Art-deco and colonial houses, with baroque churches behind them; the old and the new intermingled in this free walking tour Bogotá. Join one of our guides in the heart of Bogotá and discover what this neighborhood has hidden away. Inscribed in graffiti and mixed in the drinks, you’ll discover Bogotá’s colonial and indigenous past, the roots of Colombian history. A confluence of culture and conflict can be felt all around, as you follow a trail of graffiti through old city streets. Learn about the impact of Colombian drug trafficking, emerald mafia, and how all lines up with its +50 year old armed conflict. State, drugs, war, guerrillas, trade: a volatile mixture that has often blinded us to the better side of Colombia.

Inclusions: Gran Colombia Tours Guide, Chicha tasting, Fruit and juice tasting, Coffee tasting, All-risk insurance

Exclusions: Hotel pick-up and drop-off, Extra purchases

Reviewed By Z7966QL_

Thanks to Luis (and to our drivers) for these amazing two days in Bogota! ???? We saw many beautiful places, immersed ourselves in the local culture, taste coffee in one of the best coffee houses in the city, hear stories about graffiti, fruits, people and much more.

10. La Candelaria + Optional Monserrate + Optional Gold Museum Bogotá City Tour 5-7H

Gran Colombia Tours
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Spend a whole day seeing it all: Colonial houses, fruits, coffee, drug trade and peace process, museums, the whole nine yards! With our private city tour you will have the most complete experiences one could have in Bogotá. Get personalized insights from our expert guide and explore top landmarks of your choice. You’ll be able to choose whether you want it to last 5 or 7 hours with Monserrate, Gold Museum and Botero Museum, or 5 hours with either Monserrate or museums. Join us! • Historical landmarks in downtown Bogota • Tick off top attractions including Botero Museum, Gold Museum and Monserrate hill (chosen according to length options) • A thorough lesson on Colombian recent history: armed conflict, state and peace process • Local experiences of traditional food tasting: chicha, fruits, sweets and coffee • A day full of contrasts, experiences and memories of Bogotá

Inclusions: Gran Colombia Tours Guide, Hotel pick-up and drop-off, Chicha (a local drink) tasting, Fruit and juice tasting, Coffee tasting, All-risk insurance

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Reviewed By Z7966QL_

Thanks to Luis (and to our drivers) for these amazing two days in Bogota! ???? We saw many beautiful places, immersed ourselves in the local culture, taste coffee in one of the best coffee houses in the city, hear stories about graffiti, fruits, people and much more.

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