High travels
Who hasn’t dreamed of leaving everything behind and going off to discover new destinations? Photographer Luisa Fernanda Velásquez left her city, Bogotá, to record Latin America’s roads for her “Somos Altitude” project. She rode a motorcycle, “because it was the most practical and simple thing to do,” she recalls. During four of the 18 months she travelled, she explored Colombia and visited places such as Punta Gallinas, Valle del Cocora, Quebrada Valencia, Laguna de la Cocha, Caño Cristales and Tayrona Park, unique treasures in one of the world’s megadiverse countries, which you can visit from 42,500 Avios (return trip) with Iberia.
Tayrona National Natural Park, on the hillside of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the north of the country.
Taroa Dunes, in La Guajira.
Cabo de la Vela, a sacred site for the indigenous Wayuu people, who inhabit this zone of the La Guajira Peninsula.
Punta Gallinas, the northernmost point of South America, in La Guajira.
Forest in the Quebrada Valencia in a natural reserve on the Magdalena river, about an hour and a half from Santa Marta.
Beach in Punta Gallinas.
Filandia, one of the oldest towns in Quindío, of Quimbaya origin.
Laguna de la Cocha, located in an old crater of the Cotacachi Volcano, in the department of Nariño.
Las Lajas Sanctuary in the canyon of the River Guáitara, in Ipiales, Nariño, southern Colombia.
A fisherman in the Los Flamencos Fauna and Flora Sanctuary in Guajira, a National and Cultural Heritage Site of Colombia since 1992.
Quindío wax palm, the national tree of Colombia, in Valle del Cocora, Quindío.
Tayrona National Natural Park, on the hillside of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in the north of the country.
