About Colombia Uncharted

Colombia Uncharted (ColombiaUncharted.com) is a guide to Colombia written for people who are actually going to travel: what a city is like to walk around, what a trip costs in pesos, how to reach the places that are hard to reach, and what the current advice says about the parts of the country that carry warnings.

We would rather tell you something useful and checkable than something flattering. Colombia is a remarkable country and it is also a complicated one, and a guide that only says the flattering part out loud is not much use when you are standing at a bus terminal at six in the morning, about to take a decision.

Who We Are

The website is run, written, and reviewed by residents of the country who also enjoy travel, culture, and history, and want to share their experience with anyone who is willing to discover the wonderful people of Colombia. You will find perspectives that are lived by the people here, alongside the perspective of an experienced world traveler.

What We Are Trying to Do

To document Colombia properly, and to be the guide a local would give you rather than the one a brochure would.

That means the whole country and not only the postcard from it: the cities and their neighborhoods, the experiences worth building a trip around, the regions each with their own music and food, and the practical resources you need before you fly. It also means writing about the ordinary logistics that decide whether a trip works, which is the part most travel writing skips.

How We Research

Everything here is meant to be checkable, so here is how it is put together.

We work from primary sources. Opening hours, entry fees, closure dates, and official rules come from the body that sets them, not from another travel site repeating a number nobody has verified in three years. Where a page reports something time-sensitive, it carries the date we checked it and a list of the sources we used, so you can see how old the claim is and go read the original.

We do not tell you a place is safe. No city is entirely safe. So, that is not ours to say, and saying it would be worth nothing to you. What we do instead is follow the advisories by various governments, name the government making the assessment, quote it, date it, and link it, so you can weigh the UK, US, or Canadian advice yourself and see when it last changed. Advisories move through the year, sometimes quickly. Our Is Colombia Safe? page is where that sits, and our safety guidelines cover the everyday practicalities. But remember, government advisories and safety guidelines can only tell you so much. We ask that you stay alert, and ask about a region before traveling to it, as you would in any part of the world.

Prices are quoted in pesos, because pesos are what you pay. The dollar figure beside each one is recalculated regularly every week or so, using the official rate published by Colombia’s financial regulator, so it cannot quietly drift out of date the way a typed-in number does. Treat the dollar as a reference and the peso as the real figure, and confirm both when you buy, since fees and fares are revised without much notice. We do our best, but expect some values to change when you’re on the ground.

We correct things. Guides go stale, parks change their hours, operators fold, and we get things wrong like anyone else. When we find an error we fix it. Where relevant, we note the change, rather than editing it away quietly.

Tell Us When We Are Wrong

This works better as a conversation. If a price has moved, an opening time is off, a place has closed, or something here simply does not match what you found on the ground, tell us and we will check it and update the page. Reports from people who have just been somewhere are the most valuable corrections we get.

You can also reach us by email at info at Colombia Uncharted . com. We aim to reply as soon as we can.

Where to Start

• New to the country: our city guides and the blog, where the itineraries and current news live.
• Planning the practicalities: entry documents, staying connected, and emergency numbers.
• Weighing up the risk: Is Colombia Safe?, the safety guidelines, and the embassy directory.