Bogota travel guides & articles
All 5 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Bogota — newest first.
Monserrate vs. Guadalupe: Bogotá's Mountain Rivalry
Bogotá has two sacred peaks glaring at each other across its skyline — one built for crowds, one built for locals — and this is how to climb both without wasting a morning to cloud cover.
The Walls That Talk: How Bogotá Turned a Graffiti Crackdown Into an Open-Air Gallery
How a police killing and a public backlash turned one of Latin America's most surveilled capitals into its most generous open-air canvas — and exactly where to see it, on foot, by bike or with an artist as your guide.
The Walls That Talk: Bogotá's Street Art and the City's Open-Air Gallery
How to read Bogotá's street art in the right order — from the tour that started it all to the cable-car barrio most visitors never reach.
The Fruit That Has No Translation: Bogotá's Market Stalls and the Juice Bar Ritual
A Colombian writer's honest, stall-by-stall guide to Bogotá's exotic fruit — where to taste lulo, curuba and mangostino, and how to order a jugo like a local.
The Day Bogotá Takes Back Its Streets: Inside the Sunday Ciclovía
Every Sunday from 7am to 2pm, Bogotá closes 140-plus kilometres of road to cars and hands them to cyclists, skaters and joggers — here is how to ride it well, at 2,640 metres, without wasting the morning.