Pietra Santa Camping Bungalow

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Quiet site 10 minutes' drive from Villa de Leyva
Iguaque cloud forest, museums and ruins within half an hour's drive
On-site shop and restaurant; bar with evening entertainments

Fancy flying like a bird? The friendly folks at Pietra Santa Camping Bungalow are keen to make it happen for you: they can fix up paragliding trips over the lakes, ruins, cloud forests and peaks of the Boyacá highlands. This cracker of a Colombian site is a 10-minute drive or a 15-minute walk from the main square of Villa de Leyva, a mountain-fringed town full of colonial buildings, museums, restaurants and handicraft shops. It’s also one of the largest main squares in Latin America, and after a day of busily crisscrossing it between galleries and eateries, shops and bars, all at 7,000-odd feet above sea level, you’ll be grateful of a welcoming and laidback base to return to. Once restored by sundowners at Pietra Santa’s bar, you can hit the town again or take it easy, dining at the restaurant and savouring the evening entertainments on site. For those who prefer self catering, there are firepits and barbecue areas dotted around the grounds and if you fancy grilling a slightly less familiar fare, the ostrich farm, five minutes’ drive out of town, sells burgers, sausages and cutlets from its flightless dinosaur bird flock. If that's not your scene, safer things in packets and tins are on sale at the site shop.

Campground type

Languages spoken

English

Spanish

Nearest campgrounds

Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable sites.

Features

Dogs allowed

Campfires allowed

Leisure on site

Bar or club house

Cycle hire

Evening entertainment

Fishing

Fitness centre

Games room

Indoor swimming pool

Kids' club

On-site restaurant/cafe

Outdoor swimming pool

Play area

TV room

Take away

Tennis

Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available

Car parking by site/unit

Composting toilet

Disabled facilities

Dog park

Drying room

Food shop

Free wifi

Ice pack freezing

Internet access

Laundry

Local produce

Parent & baby washroom

Pick-up from public transport

Portable toilet

Pub toilets

Public telephone

Shower available

Toilet block

Washing-up area

Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly

Motorcycle friendly

Rallies welcome

Single-sex groups welcome

Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided

Barbecues allowed

Campfires allowed

Commercial vehicles allowed

Dogs allowed

Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Budget/backpacker

Lake and/or mountain

Leave the car at home

Peaceful

Spectacular scenery

Walkers' paradise

Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities

Dump point

Electric car charging point(s)

Gas cylinders available

Recycling available

Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby

Convenience store nearby

Dog walk nearby

Nearby farmers' market

Public transport nearby

Type

Large (51-200 sites)

Nearby leisure

Cycle hire nearby

Horse riding nearby

Leisure/theme park nearby

Mountain biking nearby

Outdoor pool nearby

Restaurant nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Caravan storage facilities

Location

Pietra Santa Camping Bungalow

Km 1 vía Cementerio-La Maloka

Barrio Buganviles

Vereda Roble bajo

Finca Pietra Santa

Villa de Leyva

Boyacá

Colombia

154001

Directions

Timezone

America/Bogota -0500 (GMT-05:00)

GPS

5.64284°N
-73.52781°W

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

For genuine dinosaur hunters, Villa de Leyva’s natural history museum and fossil museum are full to the gunnels with local finds, and you can have close-up encounters with scale models of the scaly monsters among the primordial landscapes of Gondava theme park, 15 minutes’ away. History of a more recent kind is hard to avoid in Villa de Leyva: the museum houses of Antonio Ricaurte and Antonio Nariño tell the brave and bloody tale of Colombia’s struggle for independence, while the Museo del Carmen is crammed with religious art. Out of town, the stone circles and ruined temple buildings of Moniquirá and Gachantivá (20 minutes and half an hour’s drive away) attest to the rich and ancient traditions of the local Muisca people. For hikes among the heights, you can’t top the trails around the waterfalls of La Periquera and El Haya, half an hour and 45 minutes away. If you’re after something less noisy (and more of a challenging climb), head into the cloud forests of Iguaque and climb up to the lake of the same name. Trails start half an hour’s drive from town to this high altitude zone, considered sacred to the Muiscas and so serenely quiet that many tired visitors lie down for a snooze.

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Does Pietra Santa Camping Bungalow have a swimming pool? No View all features
Is Pietra Santa Camping Bungalow dog friendly? Yes View all features
What attractions are near Pietra Santa Camping Bungalow? For genuine dinosaur hunters, Villa de Leyva’s natural history museum and fossil museum are full to the gunnels with local finds, and you can have close-up encounters with scale models of the … Read more