Country Info
- Bogota
- Capital
- Colombian Peso (COP)
- Currency
- 40,349,388
- Population
- CO
- Country Code
Colombia Slideshow
Top Hotels in Colombia
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Crowne Plaza Tequendama Bogota
75 reviews -
Intercontinental Hotels Medellin
56 reviews
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Intercontinental Cali
37 reviews
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Almirante Cartagena
102 reviews
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Cartagena Hilton
140 reviews -
Radisson Royal Bogota Hotel
79 reviews
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Hotel Caribe Cartagena
170 reviews
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Decameron Aquarium All Inclusive San Andres Island
472 reviews
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Marriott Bogota Hotel
105 reviews -
Las Americas Beach Resort Cartagena
139 reviews
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Capilla Del Mar Global Hotel Cartagena
169 reviews
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La Fontana Bogota
84 reviews
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Cartagena Plaza Hotel
133 reviews -
El Dorado Hotel Cartagena
113 reviews
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Decameron San Luis All Inclusive San Andres Island
384 reviews
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Bogota Plaza Summit Hotel
66 reviews
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Estelar Hotel Milla De Oro Medellin
52 reviews
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Radisson Royal Cali Hotel
40 reviews
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Bacata Bogota
13 reviews
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Hotel Bogota Royal
36 reviews
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Casa Dann Carlton Hotel Bogota
73 reviews
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Estelar Santamar Hotel & Centro De Convenciones Santa Marta
63 reviews
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Estelar Blue Medellin
65 reviews
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Forte Travelodge Hotel Capital Bogota
56 reviews
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Hotel Dann Barranquilla
23 reviews
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Metrotel RoyalPark Bogota
21 reviews
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Habitel Hotel Bogota
11 reviews
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Hotel De La Feria Estelar Bogota
32 reviews
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Holiday Inn Exp Stes Medellin
50 reviews
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Dann Carlton Medellin
58 reviews
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Sol Caribe Campo San Andres Island
178 reviews
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Sofitel Santa Clara Cartagena
220 reviews
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Estelar Apartamentos Bogota
31 reviews
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Sofitel Victoria Regia Bogota
140 reviews
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Dann Carlton Bogota
59 reviews
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Las Lomas Hotel Rionegro
11 reviews
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Andino Royal Bogota
28 reviews
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Embassy Stes Bogota Colmb
86 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Bogota
46 reviews
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Mercure Hotel Ibague Altamira
20 reviews
Colombia
Travel Blogs from Colombia
Into the Jungle....
This is a top pick! ... to go out and buy dinner. The following day we caught the fast boat to Parque Amacayacu, a national park belonging to Colombia. After a two hour ride upstream we finally arrived at the Decameron Hotel at approximately 1pm. The trip up river proved to be ...
Sand gets everywhere...
This is a top pick! ... a song from an elderly man passing by with his guitar. Then proceeded a quite magical concert, serenading Taganga, Colombia and Cuba - his voice possessing that incredible, indescribable quality - one that captivates and enthrals, that just draws ...
You pick up the soap honey!!!
This is a top pick! ... I hate drugs I tell them, and I don't have my passport on because I am afraid to get robbed. And of course I love Colombia, there's no thieves here. But you still need police of course, they are very important, claro, and the police are very friendly. ...
Rest, Relaxation and Mud
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 340 Temperature : 30 degrees Weather : A few days of rain and a few days of sun Tolu is a small town about 3 hours south of Cartagena, and was a perfect place to spend a few days before returning to Cartagena to get Kevin's eyes ...
The toothless pipe smoking Colombian lunatic.
This is a top pick! Shit, shit, shit, what am I doing here? What are all those soldiers up to, or are they paramilitaries or possibly guerillas? They don't look too friendly. Try to stay calm and make yourself invisible. Are they shouting at me? Where's the bloody bus, it's ...
Random Colombian observations.
This is a top pick! ... call a friend? - In a way the countryside is considered more dangerous than the big cities. I think this is pretty unique for Colombia. - There's football (that's proper football, not American, he he) on TV every day. - You find some of the most ...
San Gil, Barichara and Guane.
This is a top pick! Roadtrip from Tayrona to San Gil via El Playon, Bucaramanga and Chicamocha ...
Church hopping.
This is a top pick! I haven't really spent much time on this trip visiting museums, but I have seen a good few churches. More than my share for sure. I have never really been a museum freak, but of course I like a good museum, only problem is that it's not often I find one ...
Hummingbirds............
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 272 Weather : Sunny mornings, torrential afternoon downpours Temperature : 29 degrees Apparently, Colombia is the number one country in the world to have the largest variety of bird species above everywhere else. Being fans of our ...
The Guajira Peninsula
This is a top pick! ... thundery afternoons, spectacular sunsets Cabo de la Vela is a remote and beautifully desolate place in the northern most part of Colombia, on the Guajira peninsula near the border of Venezuela. In addition, the peninsula is the most northerly part of ...
No time for Mango's.
This is a top pick! We arrived in Medellin early morning on the night bus from Tolú. So in less than two years, I was once again back in this big city with its spectacular setting in the Aburrá Valley. Breakfast consisted of Colombian hot dogs at the bus station, and ...
Bird's Eye View
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 382 Temperature : Silly degrees Celcius Weather : Humid, hot Don't you just hate computers?! After a fantastic day conquering my fear of heights and photographing the Amazon dangling off a rope some 30m in the air, the USB lead ...
The great Chicken Vindaloo race.
This is a top pick! ... los Pegasos in Cartagena, Colombia. And the worst meal? Without a doubt the hamburger at El Rancho restaurant in San Agustin, Colombia. Everything was awful. The burger itself, the salad, the mouldy bread and the terrible cheese. Tomorrow I am already ...
Ciudad Perdida
This is a top pick! ... , we're hussled off the bus with our belongings into an old car, driven over the border, and put on a local bus in Colombia. We could have done that ourselves for much cheaper and I wouldn't have lost my running shoes in the process. I'm still up in ...
Mud mud glorious MUD!!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... out on the street watching the world go by while listening to guitar music and singing. We cant see this happening outside Spar. Colombia is looking a good bet, the people are so friendly and helpful, and always looking to talk up the good sides about ...
(C)Hips don't lie (they just make you fat)
This is a top pick! So here we were in Medellin, once officially the most dangerous city in the world at a time when drug lord Pablo Escobar, 'the world's greatest outlaw’, was at the height of his cocaine trafficking career and helping to fuel the death statistics by ...
Pablo, a fighter and a favela
This is a top pick! ... shower and generally started to feel better about life. We both had fun last night and look forward to our next night out in Colombia. We finally gave each other a kick up the bum and hit the streets. After thankfully completing the last cable car of the ...
In the coffee zone.
This is a top pick! ... time. The place is so green and absolutely stunning. What the valley is most famous for is however its wax palms, the national tree of Colombia and also the tallest palm trees in the world, that grow as high as 60 meters. Johana and I get so excited, so ...
Enjoying a mud bath....in the crater of a volcano
This is a top pick! ... natural mud bath in the crater of a volcano. Volcan de Lodo El Totumo is a 15m high mud volcano, the highest in Colombia, and its mud is said to have unmatched therapeutic qualities – never having taken a dip in a volcano before and always ...
Escape to the Caribbean
This is a top pick! ... : Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, and some sunshine San Andres is a small, tropical Caribbean island which belongs to Colombia but actually lies off the coast of Nicaragua in Central America. The native islanders here speak English although many of the ...
Hey girl, where's your beer goggles???
This is a top pick! I so wish I had a video camera, so I could have shown you this place (not really, let me keep it a secret). My brother and I are celebrating Halloween at Mango's in Medellin. Mango's, a club I had heard rumors about from a few other travelers, so of ...
Final thoughts
This is a top pick! ... Caribe, Venezuela - $5 a night, and it wasn't the worst room we've been in Most expensive hostel: Cartagena, Colombia (Thanks Washington!) Funniest bar: Barney Gomez Bar in Salta, Argentina Most interesting town: El Congo, where all the homes ...
Leaving Bog
This is a top pick! Leave Bogota next morning bit sad having not seen anything dodgy at all. We are all lalmost hoping for an incident on the way to the airport but despite our taxi drivers awful driving (and everyone elses here) we arrive unscathed. We are flying mainly ...
Wot no drugs still?
This is a top pick! Up early yesterday to get our bus out of Bogota further north to see a bit more of the country. We head out of the city (which is also very westernised by the way the inevitable McDs and pizza hut etc but not over the top). Through lots of toll roads ...
Two Days of Feasting on Fruit and Vegetables
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 270 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Sunny mornings, showery afternoons, thundery evenings Having trundled all of our shopping down to Palomino, we spent the next two days totally pigging out on fruit and vegetables. Utter bliss. ...
Let the adventure begin...
This is a top pick! ... San Bernardo". Tolú is kind of touristy, with local Colombians that is. Although a few backpackers has also started to discover this part of Colombia. But we are here at the end of May, in the rainy season, so we have the town more or less to ourselves, ...
The Most Beautiful City in South America
This is a top pick! ... you are going. So where are we now? Well, we are in the fascinating city of Cartagena which is located in northern Colombia on the shores of the Caribbean. The old walled city of Cartagena, or the historical quarters, is a UNESCO World Heritage ...