The Caribbean Coast4 places
- CartagenaA ravishing walled colonial city on the Caribbean, all balconied mansions dripping with bougainvillea, cobbled plazas…
- Ciudad Perdida (Teyuna)A terraced city built into the Sierra Nevada around 800 CE — roughly six centuries older than Machu Picchu — reachable…
- Santa Cruz de MompoxA UNESCO colonial town stranded on an island in the Magdalena river, which the trade route abandoned two centuries ago…
- Tayrona & MincaThe place where the world's highest coastal mountain range comes down to the Caribbean — jungle running straight into…
The Andes (Bogotá & the coffee axis)3 places
- The Coffee Region & CocoraGreen Andean valleys quilted with coffee farms and dotted with brightly-painted towns, above which rises the surreal…
- Medellín & GuatapéThe city that went from the most dangerous on earth to a case study in urban repair — cable cars running as public…
- Barichara & GuaneA colonial town built entirely from pale gold sandstone, on a bluff above the Suárez river canyon — repeatedly named…
The Llanos (Caño Cristales)1 place
- Caño CristalesOften called the most beautiful river in the world, a remote jungle stream that, for a few months each year, blazes…
The Pacific (Chocó)1 place
- Nuquí & Bahía Solano (Chocó)One of the wettest places on Earth, where rainforest runs straight into the Pacific with no road connecting any of it —…