Country: Colombia

Colombia Andes Cloud Forest Photography Tour With Hummingbirds

This ten-day Colombia birdwatching photo tour moves at a relaxed pace through the Andean cloud forests, with no more than eight guests. We begin near Cali at San Felipe Lodge, photographing dawn feeders at La Florida, hummingbird setups in natural flower settings, the protected forest of Bosque de Niebla, and Finca Alejandría. At Doña Dora,…

Colombia Photography Tour: Sierra Nevada Indigenous Villages and Caribbean Coast

This is a 26-day photography journey through Colombia, following the indigenous communities of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta over six days of trekking between Kogui villages. In the hills around Minca, mornings are given to birdwatching and an afternoon to a private portrait session with a Wiwa family in Awindua. You sleep in hammocks…

Colombia Kogui Village Photography Tour with Hammock Nights

This four-day, three-night photography tour in Colombia is built around a Kogui village immersion, with a small group of no more than eight travellers. The route runs from Santa Marta to Palmor Village and Uranio Alto, then on foot to Sentay and Gungulaja, where nights are spent in a hut in hammocks. In Gungulaja you…

Kogui Village Photography Tour in Chivilongui, Colombia

Three days with the Kogui in Chivilongui: a slow, respectful photography immersion built on trust before the camera comes out. In Mulkwakungui, the chief and villagers welcome you in Kogui tradition, and you learn through shared work — gathering and drying coca leaves, preparing fiqué fiber, weaving mochilas, cooking, and collecting fruit in the forest.…

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Birding Photography Tour in Colombia’s Coffee Triangle and Western Andes

A slow-burn photographic journey from the mist-wrapped coffee fincas of the Eje Cafetero through the high páramo and Chocó cloud forests to the tropical wetlands surrounding Cali. Mornings begin in near-silence at antpitta feeding stations and fog-bound trails, evolving into afternoons spent with hummingbird feeders, coffee roasters, and the display perches of Andean Cock-of-the-rock. The…

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Bird Photography Tour | Colombia Endemics

A twelve-day photographic expedition through Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, from high cloud forests to coastal lagoons. The journey follows the light: sunrise at Cerro Kennedy, late afternoon at hummingbird feeders, golden hour over the Ciénaga Grande. It is built around endemic birds—Santa Marta Parakeet, Perijá Thistletail, Vermilion Cardinal—and the landscapes that hold them.…

Colombia Photography Tour: Birds, Indigenous Life & Colonial Towns

A quiet, winding route through Colombia’s ornithological heartlands and its less-travelled cultural corners. This trip moves from the hummingbird-laced forests of Valle del Cauca to the Sierra Nevada’s mixed flocks, then descends to the Caribbean coast for flamingos, indigenous encounters, and the timeworn elegance of Mompox and Cartagena. Photographic attention falls on feeding stations, cloud-forest…

Photographing Hummingbirds Across Colombia’s Three Andean Ranges

Colombia's three Andean cordilleras create a layered hummingbird landscape that shifts from highland gardens near Bogotá to humid Chocó cloud forests and the páramo above the treeline. This 12-day photography tour moves steadily through those altitudinal changes, spending time at feeders, flowering plants, and natural perches rather than chasing a checklist. The route crosses Tolima’s…