Luxury holidays in Colombia
Wander Cartagena's bougainvillea balconies, then cool off on a coffee farm in the green hills. Give us your month and we plan the flights between them, with private guides and hotels.
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Colombia
6 days · 5 nights
Bogotá → Cartagena
Begin with two nights in Bogotá, high in the Andes, with a free day to explore. Fly down to the Caribbean coast for three nights in Cartagena, where a guided day covers La Popa, the San Felipe fortress and the plazas of the walled city, and the last full day is yours.
Colombia
3 days · 2 nights
Bogotá
A short private stay in Bogotá, high in the Andes. One guided morning on foot takes in the Gold Museum, the colonial lanes and street art of La Candelaria, Plaza de Bolívar and the Botero Museum, with time either side to settle in.
Colombia
4 days · 3 nights
Pereira
A short private stay based in Pereira, in the UNESCO-listed Coffee Cultural Landscape. One day is spent on a speciality coffee farm near Santa Rosa de Cabal, the next walking among the wax palms of the Cocora Valley and the colonial streets of Salento and Filandia.
Colombia is warmer and more welcoming than most people expect. In Cartagena, the walled old town is full of flowers, painted doors and rooftop bars, and a short boat ride takes you to the islands of Rosario and Barú. Up in the Andes, Bogotá has one of the best restaurant scenes on the continent, and Medellín has turned its hillside neighbourhoods into open-air galleries.
Between the cities sits the coffee region, where you stay on working fincas and walk among wax palms in the Cocora Valley. Near Medellín, the lake and rock of Guatapé make an easy day out. On the Caribbean coast, Tayrona National Park mixes forest trails with empty beaches, and in the south, the carved stone figures of San Agustín recall a culture that vanished centuries ago.
Add any of these to your Colombia days, and we will fit them around your flights.
Explore the Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral, carved from rock salt about 180 metres underground, then hear a private concert inside it.
Float above the green coffee plantations at sunrise, when the low light picks out every farmhouse and ridge.
Visit a farm in Santa Elena, above Medellín, and learn how the silleteros build the flower displays carried in the city's famous parade.
Walk the cobbled streets with a guide, tasting local coffee, cacao and aged rum as you go.
A private helicopter flight over the Sierra Nevada brings you above Ciudad Perdida, the ancient terraced city of Teyuna.
Most trips spend time in both, with a short flight between.
The high capital of the Andes, with the colonial lanes of La Candelaria, the Gold Museum and views from Monserrate above the city.
A walled colonial port on the Caribbean, with balconies of bougainvillea, quiet plazas and boat trips to the Rosario Islands offshore.
Green hills around Pereira, where coffee farms open their plantations and the tall wax palms of the Cocora Valley rise from the slopes.
A spring-like city in a mountain valley, then the countryside beyond Marinilla, with the lakes and colourful town of Guatapé.
Choose a private tour or a small group tour, or see Colombia as a stop on a private jet journey.
Your own guide in Cartagena's walled city and a driver for the coffee country's mountain roads.
Travel Bogotá, the coffee farms and the Caribbean coast with a few others and one guide.
Colombia sits near the equator, so altitude sets the temperature and the year splits into dry and wet.
Dry season in the Andes and on the Caribbean coast.
Sunny days in Cartagena and clear skies over Bogotá.
Still dry on the coast, the first showers in the mountains.
Rains arrive in Bogotá, Medellín and the coffee region.
Wet afternoons in the Andes, the coast stays warm.
A drier spell in the Andes, and Caño Cristales begins to colour.
Dry in the mountains, with the river of five colours at its brightest.
Medellín's flower festival and good conditions in the coffee region.
Rains return to the Andes, Caño Cristales still in season.
One of the wettest months in Bogotá and the coffee region.
Wet in the mountains, the last weeks of the Caño Cristales season.
Dry season returns, with festive lights in Medellín and busy beaches.
Bogotá has non-stop flights from London, Madrid and across the Americas, with domestic flights to the coast and the coffee region.
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