Colombia Motorcycle Tour: Coffee & Desert Adventure

Your Colombia motorcycle tour begins with arrival at Bogotá airport and the roughly one-hour transfer to quiet Chía, where you unwind from the bustle of the big city before the tour gets underway the next day with your first ride on Colombian roads.

Early in the morning the motorcycles are handed over and this Colombia motorcycle tour sets off on country roads, arcing west around Bogotá. Via Facatativá and Tocaima, with stops at waterfalls, you reach Girardot (170 km, paved road only).

This leg, an offroad motorcycle tour of Colombia, leads across rice fields and idyllic villages ever higher into the jungle. A river must be crossed before you reach the Tatacoa desert in the afternoon (210 km, approx. 100 km offroad).

As a true enduro trip through Colombia, the route runs via Natagaima and Ibagué to Cajamarca, where a winding offroad stretch through the Colombian coffee mountains begins - capped off with a hot thermal spring (240 km, approx. 50 km offroad).

On this Cocora Valley motorcycle ride, you travel from Toche along a stunning offroad track past the towering wax palms into colonial Salento and on to your accommodation in Filandia (120 km, approx. 80 km offroad).

At the Steelhorse Farm in Colombia's coffee mountains you have a free day for horse rides, hikes, paragliding or a ride in an open Willys jeep through the coffee zone, followed by a shared barbecue in the evening.

This combined onroad/offroad motorcycle tour runs via Cerritos, La Virginia and Rio Sucio, where you try the national drink Aguapanela, then continues along a great offroad track through lush jungle into colorful Jardín (200 km, 40 km offroad).

Along small, winding roads you reach the untouristy town of Jericó and continue via Bolombolo to Santa Fé de Antioquia with its colonial old town founded in 1541, a place where time seems to have stood still (190 km, partly offroad).

Today you head to the famous Peñol Rock near Guatapé, a monolith protected since the 1940s. After the long day of riding you relax right by the reservoir before the climb the next morning (approx. 200 km, some offroad).

The morning leaves time for the Peñol, then a roughly three-hour, easy-to-ride offroad track leads via San Carlos to Puerto Nare on the Río Magdalena, where you enjoy the sunset on the harbor promenade (120 km, 40 km offroad).

You cross by ferry to the other bank and enjoy a local breakfast before one of the most beautiful offroad stretches of the tour carries you through canyons and river crossings in the Tatacoa desert region on to Quípama (180 km, 50 km offroad).

Passing sugar cane plantations and banana fields, you watch a farmer demonstrate traditional panela-making before climbing to 3000 m near Muzo and continuing into colonial Villa de Leyva with its famous plaza (150 km, 40 km offroad).

The final day of riding on this Colombia motorcycle adventure runs via Zipaquirá, where you visit the legendary Salt Cathedral, to Chía, where the motorcycles are returned, and on by transfer to Bogotá (155 km, no offroad).

A transfer brings you to Bogotá airport for your international departure. Full of new impressions, your Colombia motorcycle tour ends here - already leaving you looking ahead to your next motorcycle adventure.