Visit To Guatape, The Most Colourful Town In Colombia

Visit To Guatape, The Most Colourful Town In Colombia

After climbing Piedra del Peno, I took a tuktuk to Guatape. The only other place I’ve seen tuktuks in real life was in Thailand many years ago so I was quite surprised to find them here in Colombia. The tuktuks here are much more colourful than the ones in Asia and this is an indication of what else I was about to see in Guatape.

Once I was dropped off in town and pointed towards the main square, I was treated to a rainbow of colours on every building. Some alleyways were even decorated with flags and in one case, umbrellas.

One very interesting fact was that each individual dwelling had custom artwork on the outside and in some cases, were directly related to the purpose of the dwelling. For example, one bakery featured bakers on the outside as artwork.

Some of the artwork were so detailed that they were 3D as shown in the video below.

After strolling through alleyways to soak in the local Colombian culture and artwork, I met a friendly local dog at the town’s waterfront. I was a bit tired and dehydrated after both the town walk and the big climb up Piedra del Peno earlier so I looked for a local place to get a coffee plus something to eat.

I had ample time before boarding my return bus back to Medellin and was grateful that the weather had cooperated with no rain on my day trip to Guatape.

Guatape is easily one of my favourite spots in Colombia. I wished that I had stayed a night there since it’s so different from the busy hustle and bustle of Medellin. I totally recommend that travellers going to Medellin to take at least a day trip to Guatape.

This was my second trip to Colombia and Panama this year. I definitely will return to Latin America to take in more places I’ve yet to see in the future.