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Bogotá hiking: Quebrada La Vieja re-opens for visitors

By Steve Hide November 7, 2019
The Quebrada La Vieja trail takes hikers to the páramo above Bogotá. Photos; Steve Hide
The Quebrada La Vieja Páramo trail take hikers high above Bogotá. Photos: Steve Hide

After a two-year hiatus, Bogotá’s popular Quebrada La Vieja hiking trails have re-opened giving visitors the chance to walk from city streets to the heights of the Cerros Orientales. 

The mountain paths, which cross land owned by the city water board EEAB, were closed in 2017 for environmental impact assessments following damage by thousands of daily hikers.

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Steve Hide

Steve Hide is a veteran journalist and NGO consultant with decades of experience working in Colombia and around the world. He has coordinated logistics for international NGOs in countries including Colombia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. He provides personal safety training for journalists via the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and his journalistic work has appeared in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Bogotá Post and more. He's also the Editor in Chief of Colombiacorners.com, where he writes about roads less travelled across Colombia.

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