Zipaquira Travel Blogs

  Zipaquirá - Charming Town, Amazing Salt Cathedral   Zipaquirá   If you are spending more than a couple of days in Bogotá, I highly recommend a pleasant side trip to Zipaquirá.   Zipaquirá is a charming town located 48 kilometers north of Bogotá. The city’s main…

We barely slept last night as there was some part going on next door which was quite amusing (especially when they started singing along to some English hits by artists such as Michael Jackson)!We slept in a little too late (9am) again and were on the road to get to Zipaquira which is a town about …

OK now this was weird. We went out to this little town to see an underground cathedral built into a salt mine. Yep thats right. And it was so strange and surreal and huge!! The tunnel took us down into the dark caves and each `room`opened up into a cave with huge crosses and praying areas and stuf…

This was one of my favorite sites when i was in Colombia. This is an underground cathedral that is made out of salt. Inside the cathedral you will find sculptures of the stations of the cross. It is dark with pretty shades of purple and royal blues lighting the way through it.

I went for New Year's. I have family there and went there to celebrate New Year's. Celebrating New Years in Bogota was an unbelievable experience.

I was for work at Cartagena, is nice but I love Santa Martha, specially Parque Tayrona!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I spend a great time, and I met nice and great people :)

Zipaquira is a beautiful colonial city not very far from Bogota.. But the most important thing is the wonderful "Catedral de Sal" which is built underground in a mountain which is like a big salt rock..

Flies do not enter a closed mouth. Colombian proverb.

I pretty much spent the morning cleaning up bits and pieces of the house and waiting for other people to get organised.  As I didn´t have much to do myself I just tried to keep out of the way until the shower was free. It was a complete fiasco!  Janneth warned me that Colombians are cra…