Travellers' reviews about Colombia

We enjoyed our trip to Colombia immensely. All our guides were very knowledgeable and friendly. A lot of history you can feel walking the streets. Visited Bogotá, Medellin and Cartagena. So very different and beautiful on their own. The food was great, the museums of Botero and the Museo del Oro top notch, and the opportunity to see how very violent neighborhoods have been able to be reborn in art and enterprise is fantastic. A unique experience. Definitely visit Colombia.

Bogotá was great as were the activities, Monserat and bike tour. The drives to Villa de Leiva and Barichara has some stunning scenery and the villages were beautiful. The hotel in pereira was was comfortable with a great garden jacuzzi! Medellin felt very international and the trips from there were also really good plus the city tour.

We experienced what we feel is a good representation of Colombia. We are active travellers so we enjoyed the bike tours (quick way to see a lot of area while still feeling connected to the area), hiking and we always welcomed trying local foods. As Canadians, we loved the weather of Bogotá, Villa de Leyva and Pereira! Cocora Valley was a highlight as the natural beauty was outstanding. Overall we found the culture of the central area of Colombia to be a highlight of the trip.

See above. We spent two nights in Cartagena and then went to the Rosario Island for two nights. From there we went to Minca and the Tayrona Park area. We could have used another day in Minca and skipped Tayrona Park although that coastal area was beautiful. Our stay at the B*** Hotel was wonderful-the hotels there sit on a beautiful river that flows into the Caribbean. The birds, flora and wildlife was spectacular. We then went to Medellin for 4 nights (2-3 would have been fine). We had excellent guides here and the city is an interesting place. From there we went to Solento, hiked in the Coccoro Valley and visited a beautiful coffee plantation. The people we met were very friendly and helpful.

We wanted to see some of the picturesque towns in the eastern mountains of Peru. Evaneos arranged a perfect custom tour, traveling to Barichara and Villa de Leiva, with drivers and guides for part of each day. Our travel agent in Colombia was incredibly patient and accommodating, going out of her way to make these plans and then to check in, while we were traveling, to make sure that everything was to our liking. Our guides and drivers were lovely. And one of them, our guide in Bogota, was extraordinary — not only accommodating our request to sample local tropical fruits and drink, but also sharing his impressive knowledge of Colombia and its indigenous people as we toured the extraordinary Gold Museum. Memorable, indeed!

Colombia was a great country and the people are mainly very friendly and smiling. Many locals only speak Spanish, but that is charming in itself nowadays, and the weather was generally cooler than I had anticipated until we reached Medellin and the Caribbean coast. We loved the Spanish colonial architecture in Vilaa de Leyva, Barichara and Guatape, the scenery in the coffee region / Cocora Valley, did not mind the long road journeys as the Andes scenery was spectacular, and the Punta Faro hotel on Mucura island was blissful.

Columbia is a beautiful country. It was clean, the people friendly, food was excellent and prices cheap. The people were very proud of their country and it showed. We felt safe at at times and came home with over 1000 photos to remember the trip by.

The overall trip was just amazing. Everything went extremely well.. from the tour, the guides, the cities, the food... Colombia is an amazing country and the overall organization of the trip, the contniuos support the agency throughout the trip was just awesome!

Semana Santa celebrations in Popayan. Excellent hotels throughout, particually Akawanka Lodge, Casa Lucy and Maloka Barlovento. The brief for the tour was fulfilled perfectly.

Colombia has a rich and diverse history and culture which we discovered form our travelling from Bogota and the experiencing the Amazon with a;ll its wildlife and indigenous people. We enjoyed the graffiti bike tour and markets in Bogota along with the restaurants and through the Gold Museum along with the Museum Botero truly world class experiences. We both thoroughly enjoyed Villa de Leyva and Baricharra where the hotels and the different excursions were great fun. Villa Nora near Armenia was a real delight and the hosts truly a delight - a fabulous and restful stop with wonderful bird watching in the garden. I would have much preferred 3 nights in Villa instead of doing 2 nights and then 1 night in Salento (see above comments). Barlovento was a beautiful place, despite the recent additional development there where we met some very interesting travellers. We could have done with an extra night there to enjoy the surroundings - even with Tayrona Park closed for February ! Minca was a good option and we enjoyed the waterfalls and pools for a refreshing swim and had a brilliant Paella at Antonio's restaurant. The drive to Carthagena was long - it took us 6 hours - probably because the road works around Carthagena were so bad and it was a Saturday. Ananda Hotel was a beautiful hotel with great rooms and friendly staff and well located. We enjoyed Carthagena very much - particularly the old town and Getsemani. All the internal flights worked very well and Avian in particular were great in ensuring all our luggage arrived at our final destinations.

Very professional and organised. Katherine was great and very responsive to all our requests. Very trusted and would recommend others to use Evaneos. Loved the tour in the coffee region in Salento and also the tour in Medellin both guides were very informative. The transfers arranged were always timely and professional. We had real peace of mind with the arrangements Katherine had made and we knew that we could relax and enjoy the trip. We would recommend without any hesitation.

We were picked up in Medellin, to go to the coffee region. This driver got lost and was a bit reckless. The hotel was great, relaxing and with history. The tours there where excellent. The guides full of knowledge, nice, great conversations. The guide for the Cocora Valley took us to try fruits, to a good restaurant for lunch, great person (Harol). And the coffee tour at the Hacienda was wonderful. We went to Popayan - this driver was great, careful and very nice. Maria, our guide knew a lot about the city and was very accommodating. Our driver to San Agustin was good but tried to sell us different tours which wasn't very nice. San Agustin we really liked Olga and Pacho. And the driver Orlando helped us with all our questions! All the hotels were wonderful. Katherine did the trip exactly as we wanted, with nice hotels, very good and different guides and free time! And was very good about follow up. All the professional were on time and knew we where coming. I recommend the company absolutely. Thank you.