🏨 Private Bogota City Tour with Gold Museum and Zipaquira Salt Cathedral Activity

Overview

Get a full day of experiences getting to know Bogotá and visiting the Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral. This combo tour will show you the most characteristic Bogotá scene, and then take you to a town nearby to an underground Cathedral full of history

What's Included

Entry Tickets to attractions visited

Expert guide in the language of your preference (Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, German)

Private transportation from and to your hotel in the Bogota area

What's Not Included

Aditional unspecified activities

Lunch

Optional tips and gratuities

Traveler Information

CHILD: Age: 2 - 12
ADULT: Age: 13 - 90

Additional Info

Face masks required for travellers in public areas
If there is another place of interest you'd like to include in the tour, please let us know in advance and we will be glad to include it for you.
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
We recommend wearing comfortable clothes and shoes.

Face masks required for guides in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
PLEASE NOTE: The Gold Museum is closed on Monday; however, we can change it for another museum according to group's interests.
The order of the tour can be modified due to weather conditions.
We recommend taking a rain jacket in case you experience a rainy day.

Cancellation Policy

Mount Monserrate

Your day will start when your driver picks you up from your hotel, to take you to your first stop: the Monserrate Sanctuary, located within the imposing Eastern Hills of the city, at an altitude of 3150MASL. Ascending to the top of the mountain on a cable car, you will reach the most famous pilgrimage point of the city, and perhaps the most incredible lookout spot in the capital. This is the best spot to grasp the historical and spatial contextualization of the city.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Barrio La Candelaria

To finalize the city tour, you will cross La Candelaria’s border to become immersed in the most impressive collection of indigenous gold artifacts at the Gold Museum. As you leave, you'll have the chance to go shopping at the handicrafts market at Parque Santander.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Plaza de Bolivar de Bogota

After the walking tour in La Candelaria, you will reach Plaza de Bolívar. It is here where administrative and governmental buildings - that have been icons of the historical processes carried out in our country - surround the main square of the Plaza.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Gold Museum (Museo del Oro)

To finalize the city tour, you will cross La Candelaria’s border to become immersed in the most impressive collection of indigenous gold artifacts at the Gold Museum. As you leave, you'll have the chance to go shopping at the handicrafts market at Parque Santander.

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Catedral de Sal de Zipaquira

As soon as the city tour is over, you will be taken to the charming town of Zipaquirá where you will visit the Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral. This is a place where the mysticism of Muiscas (indigenous culture), Catholic symbolism, and contemporary engineering, came together to take visitors on a magical tour through tunnels and vaults of impressive sizes.

On this tour, you will enter an old salt mine that was adapted to become a cathedral. Here, artists and sculptors have manipulated the materials found underground to create original representations of Catholic symbols. Learn from an expert guide about this process and the meanings behind the artworks you will see on tour.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Then, you will head to the colonial village of Zipaquirá, where you’ll walk through the main square that is surrounded by several buildings that have been declared national monuments. Here, you will taste some delicious baked foods of the region and check out the local handicraft market. Lastly, you will head back to Bogotá where you will be driven to your hotel.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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