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Colombia · Cundinamarca & Boyacá

Bogotá & Villa de Leyva

📷 Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Gold Museum, La Candelaria’s street art, a salt cathedral and a white colonial town.

Bogotá sits at 2,600 metres below its green mountains: the colonial lanes and street art of La Candelaria, the Gold Museum with its pre-Columbian treasures, Botero’s museum and the cable car up Monserrate. Zipaquirá has a cathedral carved in a salt mine, and Villa de Leyva, three hours north, is a whitewashed colonial town around one of the largest squares in the Americas.

Known for

  • Culture
  • Museums
  • Photography
  • Mountain biking
Travel guide on Wikivoyage ↗

Best time to visit

The best months for Bogotá & Villa de Leyva are January, February, July, August and December.

Suggested route

5 nights across 2 stops. Jourimo adjusts it to the length of your trip.

  1. 1Bogotá · 3 nights
  2. 2Villa de Leyva · 2 nights