Culture · Bogotá
We take no commission on any purchase and we will not take you to a shop that pays us. If you intend to buy, get an independent certificate before paying, not after. The street trade is not a good place to carry a lot of cash.
Colombia produces the finest emeralds on earth, and the trade still happens on a specific pavement in downtown Bogotá between men with folded paper packets. You go with someone who can tell you what you are looking at.
A private gemmologist, a workshop visit, and an independent valuation before you commit to any purchase.
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The hillside barrio that went from the most feared address in Medellín to an open-air gallery, walked with someone who grew up in it. Outdoor escalators, murals with meanings, and the 2002 military operation told by the people it happened to.
From
$20–$45
per person
Culture
Twenty-three fat bronze Boteros standing in a public square, and upstairs the best collection of Colombian art outside Bogotá. The museum also holds the country’s most uncomfortable modern painting, and we will show you it.
From
$8–$40
per person
Culture
The downtown most visitors are told to avoid, walked properly with a guide who can explain why it looks the way it does. Four hours through Parque Berrío, the Palacio, Botero’s square and the streets where the city actually works.
Suggested
$15–$30
pay what you think it was worth
