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    • Is Colombia Safe? Some tips for travellers.
    • Cost of living in Bogotá
    • Do you have an altitude problem?
    • Not quite quakes
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    • Isla Gorgona: Colombia’s Pacific paradise
    • Boating Bogotá: Embalse de Tominé
    • Flying Colombia’s DC-3s
    • Amazon Corners – El Encanto
    • Colombia’s Amazon: La Pedrera
    • Colombia helps Apollo 11 mission
    • Colombia’s Tuluní cave
    • Adventures in gorgeous Guaviare
    • Backroads of Santander
    • Street art in Bogotá
    • The Amazing Amazon
    • Armero on my mind
    • La Chorrera: Colombia’s highest waterfall
    • Bogotá’s super Ciclovia
    • Colombia to Panama on the Darien Coast
    • Bogota: walking up to Monserrate
    • Isla Fuerte: unknown island paradise
    • Nuquí, on the Chocó coast
    • Trekking to the Lost City
    • Tierradentro: journey to the heartland
    • Boyacá backroads to El Cocuy
    • Slow boat to Mompox
    • Guatapé: golden age of the arreiros.
    • Alto Baudó: Colombia’s forgotten corner
    • On the dinosaur trail in Villa de Leyva
    • Short hike to Juaica
    • Lost in the Darien Gap
    • Is Colombia Safe? Some tips for travellers.
    • Viva Villa de Leyva!
    • Bogota: walking up to Monserrate
    • Guatavita: a legend lives on
    • Montería, pearl of the Sinú
    • Getting into the Amazon
    • Pablo Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles
    • Riding Bogotá’s TransMiCable
    • Take the plunge in Guaviare
    • The Pacific’s troubled Tumaco
  • On the Road
    • A guide to Colombia’s classic 4x4s
    • Isla Gorgona: Colombia’s Pacific paradise
    • Flying Colombia’s DC-3s
    • Amazon Corners – El Encanto
    • Colombia’s Amazon: La Pedrera
    • Colombia’s Tuluní cave
    • Adventures in gorgeous Guaviare
    • Backroads of Santander
    • Venezuelans on the road in Colombia
    • Boyacá backroads to El Cocuy
    • Armero on my mind
    • Slow boat to Mompox
    • Time for Colombia to belt up
    • Guavio dam lake
    • Take the plunge in Guaviare
    • Make driving fun in Bogotá
    • Viva Villa de Leyva!
    • The Untouchables
    • Tierradentro: journey to the heartland
    • If it can go wrong…
  • Bogotá Living
    • Boating Bogotá: Embalse de Tominé
    • Bogotá: day trip to Ciudad Bolivar
    • Jaime Garzón: The day the laughter stopped
    • Protecting the Cerros Orientales of Bogotá
    • Riding Bogotá’s TransMiCable
    • Colombia helps Apollo 11 mission
    • Street art in Bogotá
    • Colmenares case – where’s the crime?
    • Bogota: walking up to Monserrate
    • Venezuelans in Bogotá
    • Short hike to Juaica
    • Bogotá’s super Ciclovia
    • 1538: Bogotá’s conquest
    • Guavio dam lake
    • Do you have an altitude problem?
    • Building battles
    • Viva Villa de Leyva!
    • Down and out in Bogotá
    • Is Colombia Safe? Some tips for travellers.
    • Bogotá weather – anyone’s guess
    • The Untouchables
    • Cost of living in Bogotá
    • Dying for a breath of Bogotá air
    • Guatavita: a legend lives on
    • Bicycle tribes of Bogotá
    • Not quite quakes
    • Make driving fun in Bogotá
    • The Aerospace Museum
    • The Giant Sloth slaughter
    • La Chorrera: Colombia’s highest waterfall
  • Colombia Context
    • Bogotá: day trip to Ciudad Bolivar
    • Flying Colombia’s DC-3s
    • A guide to Colombia’s classic 4x4s
    • Jaime Garzón: The day the laughter stopped
    • Protecting the Cerros Orientales of Bogotá
    • Colombia helps Apollo 11 mission
    • Colmenares case – where’s the crime?
    • Is Colombia Safe? Some tips for travellers.
    • In the shadow of Los Pachencas of Santa Marta
    • Has time run out for Colombia’s DC-3s?
    • ‘It’s the (narco) economy stupid’
    • Building battles
    • Avianca’s 100 years
    • 1538: Bogotá’s conquest
    • Venezuelans in Bogotá
    • Venezuelans on the road in Colombia
    • The Untouchables
    • Down and out in Bogotá
    • Corruption: do you feel the bite?
    • A church for all seasons
    • On the dinosaur trail in Villa de Leyva
    • Cost of living in Bogotá
    • Do you have an altitude problem?
    • If it can go wrong…
    • Loco for lichens
    • Lost in the Darien Gap
    • Sillateros: the human carriers
    • Not quite quakes
    • Sunken treasure: the Galleon San José
    • The curse of Plan Pistola
    • The Giant Sloth slaughter
    • The writing’s on the wall…
    • Time for Colombia to belt up
    • Two funerals (and no wedding)
    • ZeroZeroZero: cocaine rules
  • Colombia Conflict
    • Jaime Garzón: The day the laughter stopped
    • In the shadow of Los Pachencas of Santa Marta
    • Lost in the Darien Gap
    • Is Colombia Safe? Some tips for travellers.
    • Killed in the Darien Gap
    • Colombia to Panama on the Darien Coast
    • ‘It’s the (narco) economy stupid’
    • The writing’s on the wall…
    • Pablo Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles
    • The curse of Plan Pistola
    • ZeroZeroZero: cocaine rules

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Riding Bogotá’s TransMiCable

An amazing cable car now connects some of Bogotá’s poorest communities to the city. And it’s a great day out.

February, 2019

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  • The Amazing Amazon
  • Pablo Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles
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  • Short hike to Juaica
  • ‘It’s the (narco) economy stupid’
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  • Loco for lichens
  • Colombia to Panama on the Darien Coast
  • Killed in the Darien Gap
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  • Corruption: do you feel the bite?
  • Sunken treasure: the Galleon San José
  • Slow boat to Mompox
  • Dying for a breath of Bogotá air
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  • The Giant Sloth slaughter
  • Bogotá weather – anyone’s guess
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  • Isla Fuerte: unknown island paradise
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