Bogotanos are absurdly proud of the gleaming new Transmilenio bus service, a kind of overground metro. A bendy bus might not seem that exciting, but compared to the insanity of the traditional bus routes, this is travelling in style.

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Take the only train still running from Bogotá’s La Sabana station. Hugely popular with the locals, it leaves at 8am on Sunday morning to run through various villages on the altiplano and gives a flavour of the gulf between rural and urban life. Get out at Zipaquira, an important settlement in pre-colonial times. The town is built on a mountain of rock salt out of which a vast underground Cathedral has been hewn. An impressively pointless achievement.

La Sabana station, Calle 13, Carrera 19

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