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About this guide to Colombia

This updated Bradt Colombia Guidebook has been thoroughly updated to include all the most recent developments in this emerging South American destination and to bring to the fore the country’s fast-developing ecotourism offering.

After decades of trouble, Colombia now offers one of the most exciting new travel experiences in South America: following the 2016 peace accord, tourism is rapidly reviving as a key economic driver. Ranked the world’s third most beautiful country by Forbes Magazine, the country has nature at its heart.

By some estimates, Colombia – being blessed with Andes, Amazon, coast and more besides – houses a staggering 10% of the planet’s animal and plant species: pink river dolphins swim in the Amazon near Leticia, ocelots slip between trees in vine-tangled rainforest and birdwatchers marvel at avian riches in the vast savannah of Los Llanos and various mountain ranges.

In historic Bogotá, the capital, you can gaze in awe at the shimmering pre-Columbian treasures in the Museo de Oro that eluded the gold-greedy conquistadors; get a taste of fine dining at one of the best restaurants in the Americas; and tour the city’s Instagram-friendly street art.

Elsewhere, discover Mompós, a colonial backwater undergoing a renaissance with its traditional silver jewellery shops and international jazz festival, and explore the UNESCO Seaflower Biosphere Reserve in the San Andrés Archipelago – where Providencia is the least developed and visited island in the entire Caribbean.

Alternatively, why not:-

Go stargazing amid lunar landscapes in the Tatacoa Desert
Cruise the Magdalena River from Cartagena to Barranquilla
Watch humpback whales along the Pacific Coast
Learn to wrangle cattle during the Coleo festival in Villavicencio
Visit ancient rock paintings in unexplored Guaviare
Try the traditional fermented tipple of the original Muisca people
Admire the rainbow river of Cano Cristales
Or explore the untouched jungles of Chiribiquete National Park
New elements of this edition – updated by Latin American specialists who have worked on dozens of guidebooks – include coverage of Yopal, San José del Guaviare, Caqueta, Vichada, Guainia and Palomino.

Whatever floats your boat, this updated Bradt Colombia Guidebook has you covered.

Contents

PART ONE: GENERAL INFORMATION
1 Background Information
2 Practical Information

PART TWO: THE GUIDE
3 Bogotá
4 North of Bogotá
5 The Caribbean Coast and Cartagena
6 San Andrés Archipelago
7 The Northwest, Medellín and the Coffee Triangle
8 The Pacific Coast
9 The Southwest, Cali and Popayan
10 Los Llanos
11 Amazonia

About the author and updaters

Sarah Woods is an award-winning travel writer who has spent extended periods in Central and South America. She writes about the region for newspapers, magazines and online publications, alongside lecturing regularly across Europe and the USA. She has also worked on TV documentaries about Colombia’s former president Álvaro Uribe, Colombia’s ancient tombs and the centenary of the Panama Canal.

Her dozen travel books include Bradt’s Panama guidebook and the travel narrative On a Wing and a Prayer, about her journey to the heart of the rainforest. She won the PSA award (2013) for broadcasting and the Kenneth Westcott Prize in both 2007 and 2008.

Caitlin and Huw Hennessy are seasoned travel writers specialising in Latin America, with some 80 years’ travel experience between them. Former leaders for tour operators Journey Latin America, they know Colombia very well, having travelled the length and breadth of the country, including in order to update Footprint’s Colombia Handbook.

Since the 1980s, they have written and updated countless other guidebooks to Central and South America, working for Footprint Handbooks, Insight Guides, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guides, AA Publications and Michelin Green Guides. More recently the couple have updated Bradt’s guidebooks to Paraguay, Mozambique and Saint Helena, and written three Bradt guidebooks about cycling routes.