Villa de Leyva Hotels - Reviews and Rates

[Leon writes...]

The double bed in the hostel was one of those ones with a frame that sticks up at the end meaning I have to sleep with my knees on my chest and I got another horrible night's sleep. So come Sunday morning we did the trudge (again) all over town and finally got a good recommendation from the Colombian Mountain House to a g...

[Leon writes...]

We'd booked a bus at 10am to take us to El Banco, a town about 2.5 hours from Mompos and vaguely on the way to our final destination, Villa de Leyva. Typically the bus didn’t show up and the woman at the hostel who had organised it had taken the day off. After a series of questions in Spanish (each one getting more ...

Yesterday when we arrived at our accommodation we were given the opportunity to book some local tours. We were keen on the horse riding tour and so we rose early. Just 200 metres from where we were staying we each mounted a horse. They were great horses, easy to steer, tranquil and obviously knew the route well. Initially we trotted through the ...

We successfully managed to offload two huge rucksacks and left them at the hostel. We made our way to the Teminal de transportes, terminal 3 was to take us north. We booked our journey on the bus operated by Copetran, $60mil pesos for the four of us for the 4 hour journey to Tunja. I was concerned when I was told that there were no toilets on th...

On the trip from San Gil to Villa de Leyva passed through a fertile agricultural area of primarily potatoes and climbed from about 1100 meters to 2100 meters. The road was less windy and the hills gentler. Along the way, the bus made a stop at a spring where the driver and several locals filled up their water bottles. My first impression of Vill...

This little town was great, and is actually a national monument. Founded in the late sixteenth century, there really are hardly any modern buildings. In fact, I've realized that if I owned the red ceramic roof tile and white paint factories in Colombia, I'd be using $100 bills as toilet paper. The hostel was a great place to relax and was out in...

I was picked up by my driver in Bogota and we drove out to Guatavita lake, a completely circular lake that is the source of the El Dorado legends, with multiple attempts (mostly unsuccessful) to drain the lake to recover the riches that supposedly lie at its bottom. The place was nice and quite interesting but I was out to find out if it was wor...

Its our last day in Bogota so we go to the Gold Museum at 9am as it is open today, finally. It has an amazing collection of gold artifacts from the native people and a fantastic audio tour covering 3 floors. Everything you wanted to know from extraction of metals, hammering and casting techniques to the different styles of decoration used by dif...

Nach San Gil bin ich dann weiter nach Villa de Leyva, ein eigentlich verschlafenes kleines Doerfchen noerdlich Bogotás. Doch an diesem Wochenende fand dort das "Festival de Luces" (des Lichtes) statt. Es war also gestopft voll mit Leuten, nichts mehr mit versunken durch Gaesschen flanieren...;) Habe mich dort mit Schleiffi und ein paar seiner Fr...

Tako... pa se ponovno oglasamo. Za zacetek naj omenim, da sem iz Bogote napisal se eno sporocilo, ki ni bilo kratko, a je zal zmanjkalo internetne povezave in vse je slo v franze. Pa nic zato. Od zacetnega turobnega vzdusja, utrujenosti zaradi 2 dnevnega potovanja, neaklimatizizranosti zaradi 7 urne casovne razlike in nepricakovno visokih cen vs...