City calarca




Every year between the months of June and July, the inhabitants of a small, but picturesque town Calarca, located in the Colombian region of Quindio (Coffee Cultural Landscape), decorate the streets, houses and balconies with elements of their culture . In this way, prepare for a celebration replete with applause, laughter and music, whose climax is Yipao Parade and Contest. 

Through this event a tribute to the icon of the region is provided, the Willys Jeep, the performance in the Colombian coffee mountains where, over the years, has been transporting people, coffee, products and objects.


The Willys Jeep helped the Colombian peasant in their daily fight against the mountain.
The Jeep Willys is a vehicle of great power, camper type, manufactured in the United States, for the war. The Willys vehicles are light, made to traverse uncovered fields, unpaved, rocky mountains go, packed desert dunes and swamp forests. After World War II and the Korean War, Americans flooded with these cars began to sell them for a very affordable price to developing countries, including in Colombia. 

He made the roads penetrated the jungle, forged the regional economy, and agricultural products transported men who produced and thus became one of the most authentic expressions of the coffee landscape and folklore.

The Archaeological Park of San Agustín, located in the department of Huila, is the only place known for the five hundred stunning statues carved in stone according to the mythology of the indigenous sculptors world. 

Most of the statues formed part of the funeral trappings of the ancient inhabitants of this region and was associated with funeral rites, the spiritual power of the dead and the supernatural world. 

The monumental statues and tombstones reflected today, a complex system of thought of these unknown cultures who understood and explained the world in their own way, carving and mystery immortalized in stone.

Prado Dam is located in the department of Tolima about 230 km from Bogota. It is an excellent weekend trip to enjoy this place that is very beautiful, especially the practice of desportes recreation, fishing, hiking and horseback riding. 

The landscapes of the lake are great, mountains all around, special warm lagoon waters for water sports. The lake maintains an average temperature of 27 degrees.

Prado Dam is made by Prado and Cunday rivers and is situated on the slopes of the Eastern Cordillera. 

One of the most amazing is that caracter'siticas is included among rocky cliffs, is an ideal place for water sports and sport fishing. 

It has a good supply of restaurants and accommodation sites within which lies a small hotel at the foot of the mountain.

City Guatavita




Guatavita, with which geographical sacred lake and legally belongs to the municipality of Sesquilé was the ceremonial site where the Indians worshiped Chie, the goddess of water, through lavish ceremonies that originated the legend of El Dorado, according to which Muisca chief arrived accompanied by four priests in a wooden raft, before diving impregnated loaded with gold and treasures collected from the community in order to leave them in the water as an offering and a symbol of worship. For native gold work did not represent economic value but a way to get closer to their gods. 

Click on image to ampliarlaPaisaje Guatavita 
Landscape Guatavita 
This story came to the attention of the Spanish conquistadors, who organized expeditions to take the precious jewels that our forefathers designed with leftover talent for many years. Indeed, it is said that one of the first forays by Felipe II ordered fourteen loads of gold were extracted. 

The Spaniards tried to drain the lake several times, until the high costs of missions made ​​them give up, but since when had gotten the best of the loot. It was much too heavy and the gold and took very little to fetch.

A badly eroded area crossed by dry canyons carved by violent floods that temporarily formed in the winter. This extraordinary desert and fossiliferous deposit area has a total area of ​​330 square kilometers.

This silent fantastic looking semi-arid region is inhabited by some families grazing goats and cattle and moyas obtain water from digging in the earth. The temperature is high during the day and at night benign. The rainy season corresponds to the months of April, May, October and November and the dry season is concentrated in the months of July, August and September. Along with St. Augustine and Tierradentro Tatacoa is one of the most popular tourist destinations of Huila.

As species are rattlesnakes, arachnids (spiders and scorpions), eagles, lizards and weasels. In times past were ocelots. The fossils of mollusks, turtles, rodents, armadillos and giant sloths found by scientists have led to the proposal that originally should have Tatacoa exuberant flora diversified plant species and tree strata. Many of these fossils can be seen in the Archaeological Museum works in the chapel of Santa Barbara in Villavieja.

City ipiales

Ipiales City is located south east of the department of Nariño, on the boundaries with the Republic of Ecuador, at an altitude of 2,900 meters above sea level and an average temperature of 12 ° C. The main economic activity of Ipiales lies in agriculture, as well as border trade using its border with Ecuador, also plays an important role tourism.  For the large trade with Ecuador, is considered the second Ipiales land port of Colombia. Ipiales is known as The City of Green clouds, a name derived from the peculiar color of clouds at sunset.  The main attraction is the Ipiales what Lajas Sanctuary, beautiful architectural jewel of the eighteenth century, with several subsequent renovations, neo-Gothic style, built in the canyon of the river Guaitara, rising over the abyss impressive feature that makes it unique in its kind in the world.

Ipiales 15 kilometer is the Nevado volcano Cumbal, 4,764 meters, which can be clearly seen from Ipiales and from the city of Tulcán in Ecuador, this volcano does not record any activity since 1930.

It is a wonderful place in the city of Bogota

Crowning the top of the hill is stunning Monserrate Sanctuary, devotional prayer and pilgrimage site whose tradition dates back to colonial times. The current building, opened in 1920 and underwent several renovations, stands on sections of building and land previously occupied by a chapel, a monastery of Carthusian and several religious buildings. 

The current configuration of the temple is of minor basilica and its main altar lies the Fallen Lord of Monserrate, elaborate carving of the seventeenth century by Pedro de Lugo and Albarracin. The location of the sanctuary, at 3,200 meters above sea level, you can admire a splendid panorama of the city. Mechanical accesses are performed by air, railway, or .funicular land amid mature eucalyptus forests. walking.