{"id":1563,"date":"2011-10-18T19:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T00:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2016-05-13T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:15:13","slug":"from-the-archives-where-is-tierra-caliente-trips-outside-bogota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2011\/10\/from-the-archives-where-is-tierra-caliente-trips-outside-bogota\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE ARCHIVES: Where Is Tierra Caliente? Trips outside Bogota"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some months ago, through Trip Advisor I met an Argentinean girl called Lorena that just had moved to Colombia and she started visiting my Colombia Travel Blog<\/a> regularly. Amongst many other questions she asked me there was one that caught my attention, she wanted to know how to get to a place\u00a0 she’d heard mentioned called \u201cTierra Caliente\u201d. Everyone seemed to recommend it as a very relaxing destination but no one seemed to\u00a0be able to tell her how get there. At first I thought it was funny, but then I realized that for us Colombians this \u00a0is pretty obvious, but for a foreigner \u201cTierra Caliente\u201d means nothing.<\/p>\n

I replied back basically saying that there is no such place as \u201cTierra Caliente”, it’s just that, due to Colombia\u2019s position within the Equator and in the Andes,\u00a0 every town or city \u00a0below 1000 meter is warm(ish) and therefore called \u201cTierra Caliente\u201d \u00a0by all of us living above that altitude.<\/p>\n

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Tequendama Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bogota is at 2600m, so we have a colder average than many regions in the country, which means that, forexample, we don\u2019t have outdoor swimming pools. This means that on long weekends us Bogotanos tend to head outside of the city in search of some hot weather and some relaxing time with our families.<\/p>\n

This entire introduction is to give some context to a day trip we did outside of Bogota last weekend to Tierra Caliente; more specifically to the legendary Tequendama Falls – a 515-feet high waterfall on the Bogot\u00e1 River, located about 18 miles southwest of Bogot\u00e1 in the municipality of San Antonio del Tequendama. \u00a0My fianc\u00e9 (now husband – Paul)<\/em>, who\u2019s not from around here, had read about el Salto del Tequendama when he was a little kid in a comic book called \u201c Joyas \u00a0de la Mitologia\u201d \u00a0and he didn\u2019t \u00a0even remember that the story was set in Colombia, but \u00a0had always remembered the legend of Tequendama, which \u00a0involves the pre-Columbian Muiscas and a white bearded deity (Bochica) who created the Fall with his golden scepter.<\/p>\n

So when I told him that el Salto del Tequendama was less than hour away from Bogota, he jumped in the car and we headed in search of his childhood memories\u2026.. \u00a0the trip was a mixture of awe due to the outstanding scenery and a mixture of sorrow and \u00a0disappointment \u00a0due to the horrible pollution of the Bogota River. We at See Colombia Travel<\/a> are working with Rio Urbano<\/a> to try and improve the conditions of the river, and to raise awareness of the situation.<\/p>\n

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The abandoned hotel at Tequendama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you’re looking for day-trips outside of Bogota then it’ll be Tierra Caliente that you’re heading to… But don’t forget to find out exactly where you’re going!<\/p>\n

Marcela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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