Eleven guides written by the people who live and operate in the region. How to get there, when to go, what to see and — above all — what is worth knowing before you set out. Ordered from closest to La Jorará outwards.
Unesco Biosphere Reserve
The highest coastal mountain on earth: from the beach to 5,775 metres in barely 42 kilometres, and the territory of four indigenous peoples who consider it the heart of the world.
6 experiences here
Our home
Km 62.5 on the Santa Marta – Palomino road: a private beach, a natural mountain-water pool and a fruit plantation, between Tayrona Park and Palomino.
7 experiences here
National natural park
White-sand bays between giant boulders and tropical dry forest, where the Sierra Nevada drops straight into the Caribbean.
2 experiences here
Sierra Nevada river
A river born in the glaciers of the Sierra Nevada that ends in the Caribbean, with howler monkeys in the canopy and a virgin beach at its mouth.
3 experiences here
Beach and river town
Where the Sierra Nevada reaches the sea to the east: a long beach, a cold river off the glacier and the gateway to Kogui territory.
3 experiences here
Mountain coffee village
Forty-five minutes from Santa Marta and 600 metres higher: coffee, cold-water falls, endemic birds and the cool air the coast does not have.
2 experiences here
The gateway
The oldest surviving city in Colombia, with the Sierra Nevada at its back and the airport almost everyone arrives through.
4 experiences here
Flora and fauna sanctuary
Coastal lagoons where Colombia's pink flamingos gather, explored by Wayuu dugout canoe, at the gateway to La Guajira.
1 experience here
The northern tip of South America
Desert ending in cliffs above the Caribbean, dunes that fall onto the beach, and Wayuu territory, at the northernmost point of the continent.
2 experiences here
Colonial town, national monument
Stone, wide highland sky and the largest cobbled square in Colombia, four hours from Bogotá and a world away from the Caribbean.
The unavoidable stopover
At 2,600 metres, the city almost every trip to Colombia passes through. Worth one good night rather than an airport hotel.
