Cultural activities, adventure, fun, sports and friendship in Bogotá
The capital city of Colombia has a lot to offer. Below we present some of the activities that we organize in Bogotá for our Spanish students.
Canoeing (Rafting)
We practice canoeing in the Río Negro, a place close to Bogotá, ideal for its warm climate and its beautiful landscapes to live a day of adventure. Our students in canoeing.
Gastronomic sample: foods of the world
Once a month, after Spanish classes with our students, we hold a gastronomic show in which each of the students prepares a typical dish from their country, thus managing to have a good time with friends and cultural exchange.
Plain roast
The Eastern Plains are a region with incredible landscapes and unique traditions, such as the typical llanero barbecue, accompanied by the traditional dance known as “joropo”.
Football night at El Campín stadium
In Colombia we feel a great passion for soccer. For this reason, we take our students to enjoy matches at the Nemesio Camacho “El Campín” Stadium, in the city of Bogotá. If you like soccer, or if what you want is to live a different experience, we go to the stadium to watch a professional soccer match: an unparalleled sporting, gastronomic, and musical experience. You will enjoy it!
Boleros
Boleros are romantic songs that liven up social gatherings. On Nueva Lengua we show our students the different musical traditions, including a sample of boleros.
Visit to the Gold Museum
The Gold Museum houses the largest pre-Hispanic goldsmith collection in the world. You will find representative samples of Colombian indigenous cultures. Visit the official page of the Gold Museum y Our students at the Gold Museum in Bogotá.
Visit to the enchanted lagoon of Guatavita
This beautiful lagoon is located on the outskirts of Bogotá in the Andes Mountains. The legend of El Dorado originated in this lagoon. Name given by Spanish, English and German explorers to the place where the natives offered gold to their gods. Our students in the Guatavita Lagoon.
Tour of the historic center of Bogotá
Bogotá is the cultural epicenter of the country. Here, students will be able to take a tour to learn more about Colombian culture, through its architecture, its museums, and other cultural centers.
The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá
One of the architectural wonders of Colombia is 200 meters underground. An underground Catholic cathedral, built by the town's miners. Our students at the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá.
Horseback riding in the mountains
Riding a horse with your group of friends from school, through the mountains near Bogotá, is a different way of contemplating the beauty of the landscape and a great opportunity to have fun. Our students on horseback.
City bike tour
Join the thousands of inhabitants who cycle through the city on one of our tours of the city and its hundreds of kilometers of bike paths. On Sundays, nearly two million people enjoy 120 kilometers of streets set aside for recreation and sports. Our students by bicycle.
Party in Chiva Rumbera
The chiva is a traditional means of transportation used in the countryside. We will party around the city in one of these colorful buses, where you can dance and enjoy the popular and traditional music of Colombia. Our students partying in chiva in Bogotá.
Football 5
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and we continually organize 5-a-side soccer matches with our students, so that men and women of different nationalities can enjoy this popular and beautiful game.
Hot springs
Very close to Bogotá there is an ideal place of relaxation to enjoy nature and a pleasant bath in hot springs. These warm and natural waters have healing properties. Join us and live this unique experience with us.
Choachí waterfalls
An exclusive landscape of the páramos, accompanied by a beautiful green and a cloud forest, will lead us through a canyon to a magical place surrounded by nature and one of the highest waterfalls in the country. This is a walk of approximately 2 hours. We will also share a snack in the house of some peasants from the region, who will give us a small sample of the typical food of this area of the country.
Tejo
This is a very typical Colombian sport and a clear example of popular culture. This game consists of introducing a steel disc inside a metallic circle that has small explosives around it (called "wicks"). The idea of the game is to be organized by teams, and the one that manages to explode the largest number of fuses is the winner. It is very common to accompany this game with a cold and delicious beer.
In this activity you can bring out the singer in you! Shakira? Juanes? Take the risk of singing a song in Spanish. If you don't know what the song that will make you famous could be, don't worry, because there is an extensive repertoire of songs of all genres. And so you don't lose track, we have a professional video system that allows participants to view the lyrics of the songs from any location.
Excursions to other archaeological parks in Colombia
Colombia is a special place due to its geographical location and offers a wide variety of parks with a unique natural and archaeological diversity. Nueva Lengua makes it a priority to offer our students the opportunity to get away from the city and appreciate the beauty that is home to more than 45 million people. See more photos on Facebook.
Special celebrations
As culture and language always go hand in hand, special celebrations also take place in Nueva lengua, and you will be an important part of each of them: Language Day, Love and Friendship Day, Christmas, New Year, Halloween, among others.
Cinema Forum
Come to the cinema forum, an activity in which you will be able to perceive reality from various fields and get closer to cultural diversity. In addition, you will be able to express your opinion in a guided discussion, a panel of questions, among others.
Social work
If you are interested in serving the local community and helping those most in need, you can carry out work in direct contact with less favored groups. Helping in a community soup kitchen is a job we do once a month. We invite all students to participate in this beautiful work.
Night support for homeless people
We go out to bring homeless people a hot drink and bread at night, but more importantly a hug, a conversation and to recognize the dignity of these people in difficult living conditions caused by extreme poverty, addictions, mental problems and other situations.
grandparents dining room
We prepare lunch for elderly people living in poverty
Once a month we support a soup kitchen that serves lunch to elderly people living in poverty. More important than preparing a lunch is to bring company, joy and a pleasant time to these people who also many live alone.
Hot land tour (Ibagué and Tolima)
We leave from Bogotá in a typical plan that is to go to Tierra Caliente for the weekend, as Colombia has all the thermal floors, at any time of the year we can transport ourselves from Bogotá for a couple of hours and be in a hot climate full of nature and adventure. . One of the most requested tours is to Ibagué and its surroundings.
Visit to Monserrate
An icon of the city and a mandatory visit point is the Monserrate hill. Since 1620, this is a place of pilgrimage and admiration for the beauty of the Sabana de Bogotá. The Sanctuary of the Fallen Lord of Monserrate, in addition to the sanctuary, is famous for the view of the city that is incredible; it is possible to go up on foot or by cable car and there is one of the best restaurants in the city.