05 Nov 2023
Pretty awful tour experience… I really wanted to give this the benefit of the doubt but as the day went on the itinerary and the guide got worse and worse.
For the itinerary: Casa Terracotta was for sure a highlight. Very cool, very unique and a great place to check out. However, pretty much went downhill after that. Gondava was basically a kids park with really bad condition animatronic dinosaurs. The tour description is incredibly misleading on this. Villa de Leyva is wonderful and cute and the lunch spot was fine. However, I think they thought cause we were Americans we wanted burgers and it was a bit strange. Finally, the ATV tour and Pozos Azules was a joke. Firstly the “ponds” are basically just puddles that they clearly either dye blue or keep clean. It’s nothing spectacular at all and very underwhelming. The ATV tour itself was 30 min of riding, in circles on the track and they made us get off for 15 min to walk around and take photos.
This whole thing is adversities as an ATV tour of Villa de Leyva and let me tell you it was not.
For the guide: our guide didn’t introduce herself to my wife at all, didn’t remember our names, barely talked to us and barely helped translate as well. She talked about wanting to go party that night more than telling us anything about the sights, of which she told us very little. She had more conversation with our driver than us by far.
I do not recommend doing this tour at all.