Hiking in Colombia takes you from the wax palm slopes of the Cocora Valley near Salento to the glaciated skyline of El Cocuy above Guicán, then north to the jungle approach to the Lost City outside Santa Marta. It is a country of sharp elevation changes and dramatic contrasts, where páramo ridges, Andean valleys, and Sierra Nevada trails can shape the same trip into something far more varied than a single-base hiking vacation.