Bogotá & Santa Marta

About the destination: Colombia's cosmopolitan capital city Bogotá, with a population about 8 million people, is located at an altitude of about 2640 m in the Andean Highlights. This gives it constant spring like weather. Bogotá is not only a getaway for travel throughout the country but also an interesting city to explore. It has an attractive old quarter, La Candelaria, ia a mixture of old and modern with beautiful old colonial buildings and palaces, bohemian cafés, art galleries and theatres and some excellent examples of modern, futuristic architecture. The city is known for its collection of pre-Columbian gold art, splendid colonial churches, great museums such as the superb Museo del Oro, considered one of South America's best museums. Bogotá offers visitors everything that a modern city can give, including a vibrant and diverse cultural life. El Centro is filled with shops, offices, cafés and a financial district. Most of the best hotels, restaurants, cafés, boutiques and nightclubs are located in Zona Norte. Day trips from Bogotá include a trip to Zipaquirá, where you will find the impressive underground cathedral built out of a salt mine. Another interesting place to visit is Monserrate, which offers a fantastic views over the city

About the destination: The city of Santa Marta, is officially a district tourist, Cultural and historic at the same time the capital of the Department of Magdalena and one of the regions most important in the Caribbean after Barranquilla and Cartagena. The city of Santa Marta used as tourist slogan "the magic of having it all" because it makes more than a hundred beaches and a snowy mountains. This city, located in the Bay of the same name, is one of the main destinations of the Colombian Caribbean. Its location between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, with the higher peaks of the country, and the Caribbean Sea, they make attractive to visit the variety of fauna and flora that exist in the area, as well as cultural and historical sites that the city has. Makes the target a place with lots of activity throughout the year, both in the high summer season, and in the winter season. But in addition the city is the second oldest of South America, has a unique architectural heritage which already makes the city a tourist destination worth visiting at any time of the year.