4. Bogotá: Private Gastronomic Tour of La Candelaria

Without a doubt, food is a sample of the culture and history of a city and a country, which is why this tour is ideal to get closer to Bogotá from its flavors and food.

The tour that you will take with one of our expert guides is located in the historic center of the city, in the Candelaria neighborhood, a unique place where the traditional and the modern coexist in architecture and in its people. There you will start trying a typical food of the country that has many varieties depending on the area where you are: The arepa, this is a food made of different types of flour and there are a little sweeter or saltier, soft, solid or crunchy! delicious! While learning a little about our history, you will head to the next place to try the next dish: Empanadas, these are a type of small cake with a topping made of wheat flour that can be fried or baked, with an incredible variety of fillings. , including beef, chicken, pork, along with potato or rice or alone, or with cheese, chicken and mushrooms, or just cheese… and many more delicious combinations of ingredients. The next dish is also a type of cake, but totally different, the Pandebono, this is combined with the melted cheese inside and is accompanied with the well-known “Cuban oatmeal”, a simply unmissable mix.

As you know, Colombia is known among other things for its coffee and its fruits, that’s why this last part of the tour you will try a coffee made by a barista (specialist in coffee preparation) with the elaboration that you like (there are a lot of different ways to prepare it), being this coffee of organic origin with which all the regional characteristics are enhanced in its flavor; and finally you will taste various types of typical fruits in different ways, in juices, smoothies and directly in their natural form.

A large number of the products that you are going to taste are made by communities that have lived through the ravages of the armed conflict and/or have been involved in drug trafficking, and that have chosen to get out of those circumstances through the production and sale of food. autochthonous and traditional of high quality, managing to enhance the flavors given by the unique characteristics of the places where they come from.