Tourists arriving in Medellín have the option of visiting towns and regions in all directions of the compass, usually within a few hours’ drive (sometimes just a few minutes) that will leave indelible memories in their minds.

These routes, nearby Medellín, mean a trip through areas full of living, deeply rooted traditions for the people of Antioquia. Visitors can experience religion, customs, music, farmland and peasant living quarters, all with the backdrop of the lush mountains of Antioquia. Likewise and due to our location in the tropics, it is possible to enjoy all kinds of climates, from sea level heat to the cold of the highest peaks passing through a whole gamut of temperate zones in between.

The Nearby Routes open up an assortment of landscapes, diverse customs, and the most traditional architecture of Antioquia. All of these within easy reach of the visitor through modern roadways that nonetheless reflect the difficult conditions under which they were built showing the determination of the first inhabitants of the region.

To the southwest, on what is known as the “Una Tradición de Café, Carbón y Arriería” (A Tradition of Coffee, Coal, and Arrieria”) route that invites the visitor to stay active while experiencing extreme adventure tours, ecological tours, and farm-hopping tours through the Cauca River region. To the east, “The Green Route of Antioquia” offers the visitor the lush high peaks of the Andes bathed by countless rivers, creeks, and waterfalls that give the region its ravishing appearance. This region of Antioquia is traditionally known for its bountiful agricultural production and as the main producer of electric power in the country. To the west, on the “Sun and Fruit Route”, which combines sun, relaxation, and fun with the region’s traditions, the visitor can enjoy its biodiversity as he travels over an excellent road which includes traversing the longest tunnel in South America, at 2.9 miles long. And to the north, to round out the Nearby Routes tour, we find the “Milk Route”, which as its name implies goes through a region whose main economic activity is the dairy business. Hang gliding, for those interested in extreme sports, is practiced in this region on a regular basis by an ever increasing number of followers of this activity.