Day Trip · Bogotá
Tierra de esmeraldas: un día en las minas de Boyacá
We do not broker stones and we take no commission from any dealer. If you want to buy, we will tell you what a fair price looks like and then leave you to it — a guide who earns on your purchase is not your guide.
The long drive north-west into the emerald belt — Muzo and Chivor country — to see where the greenest stones on earth actually come from, with quad tracks along the ridges above the workings.
Private vehicle both ways with an overnight in Villa de Leyva instead of the round trip in a day, which is the version we would actually recommend.
See VIP packagesA very long day: 4–5 hours of driving each way. We push people towards the overnight version.
Day Trip
A 220-metre granite monolith with 740 steps zigzagging up its face, and from the top an archipelago of flooded green valleys that looks unreal. Then Guatapé itself, where every building carries a painted zócalo panel.
From
$40–$110
per person
Day Trip
The old colonial capital of Antioquia, whitewashed and hot at 550 metres, with cobbled streets, four colonial churches, and a 291-metre suspension bridge from 1895 that was among the first of its kind in the Americas.
From
$40–$130
per person
Day Trip
A coffee town that has resisted being modernised, with a painted plaza where the whole town still sits out in the evening, two hand-built cable cars running up opposite valley walls, and some of the best coffee in Antioquia.
From
$45–$160
per person
