After seeing Colombia’s most beautiful sights , you might too.
Touching down in Bogotá, I marveled at the contrast between the sprawling concrete metropolis and the deep-green mountains surrounding it. “The views from the mountains must be awesome,” I thought. I wasn’t wrong. Bogotá, a city built “2,600 meters closer to the stars,” has the most spectacular urban sunsets I’ve ever seen, and there’s no better place to see them than from the top of Mount Monserrate.
Johanna’s family descends from the indigenous Wayuu tribe, so she wanted to take me to their native land in the northeastern department of La Guajira. Cabo de la Vela is undeveloped, isolated, and has a dramatic landscape of sea, desert, shrubs, and cactuses stretching as far as the eye can see. It is one of the most special places I’ve ever visited. After a knuckle-whitening jeep ride through the desert with jubilant vallenato music blasting from the stereo, we arrived in the sacred land of the Wayuu. Cabo de la Vela, Johanna told me, is the Wayuu people’s “gateway to the afterlife.” I’m not religious, but it felt like Heaven to me.
Mount Monserrate at sunset, Bogotá
Hummingbird Observatory, Cundinamarca
Chingaza National Park, Cundinamarca
Cartagena, Colombia
Tayrona National Park, Santa Marta
Cabo de la Vela, La Guajira
Crab Cay, Providencia
Cocora Valley, Quindio
Guatapé, Antioquia
Caño Cristales, Meta
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