Bogotá Bike Tour: Explore Historical Center, La Candelaria, and Local Markets

Embark on a thrilling four-hour bike tour in Bogotá, exploring the historical center, La Candelaria, local markets, and more. Experience the city’s landmarks, street art, and traditional Colombian street foods along the way.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Group bike tours begin at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. every day (private tours can start at any time). This four-hour exploration of central Bogota starts out with a visit to the historical center, including passing by colonial churches and the Botero and Gold museums, as well as a visit to the nation’s main square, Plaza Bolivar.

From there, we’ll ride north to a fruit market and taste from Colombia’s huge variety of exotic, tropical fruits, and then walk across the street for a game of tejo, Colombia’s national sport.

After that, we’ll ride up Carrera Septima, past Independence Park, the Bullfighting Stadium, the National Museum and through the La Merced neighborhood, which feels like a bit of London with its English architecture. From there, we enter the National Park to try fruit salads, juices, corn-on-the-cob and grilled meats.

Our stomachs filled, we ride west through the quiet and elegant Teusaquillo neighborhood to Calle 26, where we’ll admire some of Bogota’s largest street murals. After photographing a sculpture by Colombia Fernando Botero, we ride past the Memorial Center, dedicated to documenting human rights violations, and stop in a small coffee roaster. Here, we see how Colombia’s world-famous arabica beans are selected and roasted for export. Then we’ll enjoy a fresh brew of those delectable beans.

Finally, we’ll ride back to our starting point in La Candelaria, finishing off with one of the few uphills on this mostly-flat ride. The whole route covers about 12 kms.

Points of Interest

  • Bogota Bike Tours
What's Included
  • Sample local fruits at the traditional market
  • Enjoy the city on wheels with a provided bicycle
  • Stay safe with a helmet included
  • Explore with a knowledgeable bilingual guide
What's Not Included
  • Coffee in cafe
  • Other food and drinks
  • The traditional fruit market accepts only cash payment in Colombian pesos, the coffee roaster accepts Colombian currency and credit cards.
Additional Information

Embark on a four-hour cycling journey around central Bogotá, where we’ll explore the historical area of La Candelaria, visit a conventional fruit market, a coffee production plant, observe street art, and possibly see a match of tejo, the national sport of Colombia. Along the way, we’ll pass signature sites such as urban parks, the Plaza de Toros, Museo Nacional, and witness the economic and architectural variety of different boroughs. Midway through, we’ll take a break at Parque Nacional to taste various Colombian street foods like fruit cocktails, juices, barbecued meats, and corn on the cob. The approximate 12 kilometers route is mostly level, making the tour leisurely with many pauses.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
Location
Cra. 3 #12-42
Carrera 3
From La Plaza del Chorro, walk downhill on Calle 12B and turn left at Carrera 3. We're right around the corner.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Departure00234875107
Aug 20, 2024
BEST BIKE TOUR!! BEST GUIDE!!❤️🇨🇴 - We were 3 people and booked the private tour very spontaneous. Our guide was Mike. He‘s a great guy with charme & humor who knows his way around and has great historical insights!❤️ would do it again! Ho & book it! You‘ll love it😁❤️🇨🇴
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Santiagoll9424ds
Aug 19, 2024
Great! - Very interesting experience. Great explanations by Universo about the history of bogota and colombia. Super Reccomended
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Mspv92
Aug 19, 2024
A discovery of the exceptional city - Great bike tour of Bogota with Adrien. We spent over 4 hours and learned a lot about Colombia, Bogota and everything else. Adrien is an Extra Guide with a unique culture and knowledge of the country. This bike tour is varied, fun and very interesting. Another big thank you 🙏 I can only recommend this activity.
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315elmare
Aug 18, 2024
Great option to get to know Bogotá - The owner gave a very interesting tour and provided a lot of background information. Not a standard tourist sightseeing tour. Way better than expected. It took also closer to 5.5 h than the 4.5 h.
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Juul04
Aug 18, 2024
Nice tour around the city! - Nice tour through beautiful parts of the city, guide that showed us beautiful and well-known things in the city, and tasting of unique fruits of Colombia. We are recommending it to everyone who wants to get to know Bogotá!
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Eniola_f
Aug 18, 2024
Honest Tour - A great opportunity to see parts of Bogotá most tourists wouldn't venture to. Highly recommend to solo travelers.
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Q6602xvjohanm
Aug 17, 2024
Very good bike tour - We had a very pleasant and interesting bike tour. Our guide Daniela showed us many well known and less known parts of Bogota. She also gave a lot of information about the current Colombian society and his challenges, very interesting. The visit to the coffee factory was fun too and the coffee delicious.
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Fevenghs
Aug 10, 2024
Amazing tour - Luiz Carlos has been an amazing guide, so passionate!!! He explained so many things of Bogota and he has been fantastic during the entire tour! I would really suggest it
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V963xmjond
Aug 9, 2024
Great bike tour. - Great experience and amazing guide! Thank you Marianna for the time you took with the group and the information you gave us. I wish I had taken the bike tour earlier in my trip so I would've been able to go back and visit some of our stops. I would highly recommend this ride for any type of rider. I'm already planning another visit and another bike ride.
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Mikevb8030bq
Aug 9, 2024
Fun bike tour! - The bike ride through Bogota was more fun than expected! The extensive tasting of the fruit, the visit to the small coffee factory and the chance to throw yourself at the Colombian game Tejo made it something more special than other city tours. On the (well maintained) bike there is also more to see than on foot. Our Guide David was himself an excellent graffiti artist and told many “murals” the origin and train of thought of the artist.
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