The Santa Fe Tour
Colombia Holidays - 10 Night Itinerary from £2,910 from €2,592 from $2,783

Day 1 - Travel to Bogota

Depart in the evening on the overnight direct flight to Bogota, staying for 2 nights, where you will be met by our representative and taken to your hotel. This is also the opportunity for our guide to provide you advice, explain your programme and answer any questions you may have.

Day 2 - Day at leisure in Bogota 

After arriving early morning you have this day to relax and explore Bogota on your own. Bogota is a vibrant capital steeped in history, with colonial churches and squares, surrounded by the peaks of the Andes.

Day 3 - Full Day tour of Bogota 

Drive through the colonial neighborhood of La Candelaria and make stops for photographs at Plaza de Bolivar, the main square and heart of Bogota. Walk through the streets where you will see the library of Luis Angel Arango, the Cathedral, the Congress Palace, the Cardinal's Palace, the colonial churches of El Sagrario and San Agustin, the House of Independence, the Palace of Justice and the City Hall. Visit to the famous Gold Museum, which houses the world greatest collection of Prehispanic Indian gold crafts. Galleries on three levels display pieces dating back nearly 2.500 years.6  00 Afterwards, visit the Fernando Botero Museum which contains around 120 pieces of paintings and sculptures of this famous contemporary Colombian artist. His work is well-known for the 'proportionally exaggerated' fat figures. In addition to his work, his personal collection by Picasso, Renoir, Dalí, Degas, Chagall, Matisse, Monet and Giacometti are also exhibited.

Day 6 - Travel to Pereira 

Morning flight to Pereira, you will be met by one of our representatives and taken to the historical Hacienda for a three-night stay.

Day 7 - Excursion & Coffee Tasting Hacienda San Alberto 

About an hour outside of Pereira lies the town of Buenavista, the smallest municipality in Colombia. There, up in the hills you will find a premium coffee producer: Hacienda San Alberto. San Alberto has been producing coffee since the early 1970's, so it came as no surprise when they decided to open their doors to the public and share this experience with the coffee lovers around the world. We will tour around the beautiful Hacienda and learn all about the coffee process from start to finish. You will get familiarized with the coffee bean germination process, visit the coffee nursery, walk around the coffee plantations and visit the processing plant. Afterwards we invite you to participate in an incredible experience that will awaken all your senses: a coffee tasting accompanied by our experts. A sip of coffee will never be the same again, you will learn to identify the characteristics and qualities that are present in a good cup of coffee.

Day 9 - Travel to Cartagena

Flight to Cartagena, via Bogota. Afternoon tour exploring the historic city. Sights will include Bocagrande, the modern residential district and the Convent of La Popa, built at the beginning of the seventeenth century on a hill of the same name with magnificent views of the city & the bay. Continue to San Felipe's Fort, built to protect the city where we have time to walk along the streets to admire the old Spanish colonial architecture and beautiful balconies filled with flowers.

Days 10-11 - Days at Leisure in Cartagena  

Explore Cartagena at leisure, or visit one of the Islands on a full day excursions to the Baru or Islas del Rosario. 

Day 12 - Return

Transfer to the airport for your departure flight home, via Bogota, arriving the following day, Day 13.