Best Traditional Colombian Pacific Amazon: Bahía Málaga, Nuquí, Leticia, Amacayacu, Puerto Nariño Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Colombia travel | South America destinations Best Traditional Colombian Pacific Amazon: Bahía Málaga, Nuquí, Leticia, Amacayacu, Puerto Nariño Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Colombia's two least-visited frontiers, the Pacific coast of Chocó/Valle del Cauca and the Amazonas department in the deep south, sit at opposite ends of the country and share almost nothing except a feeling. Both are humid. Both are reached by small plane from Bogotá. Both are governed by river time. And both are where Colombia stops looking like a Lonely Planet cover and starts looking like itself. The Pacific gets the humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) that migrate from Antarctica each July through October, more than 5,000 of them by recent estimates, calving in the warm bays around Nuquí, Bahía Solano, Bahía Málaga, and Utría National Park (543 km²). The Amazonas gets the Amazon River itself (around 6,400 km from Andean headwaters to Atlantic mouth), pink river dolph...