Backpacking Colombia Travel Guide: Check Out

With its surfing beaches, thrilling parties, warm cities, delicious food, lush jungles, and incredible sceneries, Colombia should be the first on your travel list. Especially, backpacking Colombia is truly a wonderful experience. It is also becoming one of the most popular countries in the whole of South America. So, if you are looking forward to going to Colombia, check out some amazing flight deals on LatinOFare and book your plane tickets now.

Also, here is your backpacking Colombia travel guide:

Top five things to do in Colombia

When you are in Colombia, do not miss out on these five things:

Exploring Bogota
Visit Tierradentro National Park
Stroll through the Corcora Valley
Visit Medellin
Go trekking to the lost city

Apart from these, if you have more time at your hand, do see or do things in Colombia:

See Isla Gorgona
Visit San Agustin
Go diving
See the Amazon basin
Drink the world-famous Colombian coffee
Visit bustling Cali, the third-largest Colombian city
Spend a day in Popayan
Dance your heart out in the Carnival
Do adventure sports in San Gil
Unwind in Tayrona National Park
Visit Guatapé
Explore Providencia and San Andrés Islands
Go hiking in Minca

Travel cost in Colombia

When you go backpacking in Colombia, travel expenses can be burdening. However, if you plan well, you can easily manage in a lower budget. The average cost of hostel dorm rooms in Colombia is anywhere between $9-14 per night. However, in the small cities and towns, the tariff is even lower than $7 per night. Budget hotels in Colombia are available at $18 per night.

Food in Colombia

For a local meal in Colombia, you can expect to spend around $3-5 in major cities of Colombia. If you are staying near the countryside, you can shelve nearly $1.5-3. If you wish to have cheap food like empanadas, you would only need $0.06 or $0.15. If you wish to eat some western food, it would be about $6-9.

Budget in Colombia

If you wish to go backpacking in Colombia, in all you should have a budget of $48 per day. This is considering you stay in a hostel dorm, eat the local Colombian food, cook some of your meals, and use the local mean of transportation to move about. In a mid-range, you will need $92 per day. However, for a luxury budget, you would need $185.

Money-saving Tips in Colombia

Overall, Colombia is very cheap. But if you still want to save money while on the trip, you can use the following tricks to cut down your costs:

Eat as the locals do
Do not drink the cocktails
Cook some of your food
Avoid hostels located on the Caribbean coast
Take free walking tours
Use local transportation
Know your taxi fare before you get into one

Additionally, you could save money on your flight tickets to Colombia. Check out LatinOFare and grab some of the best flight deals. Also, try to be flexible with your travel dates and set price alerts for round-trip plane tickets. Have fun!

Andy Mathur