Concerts, fashion shows and watersports are among the attractions on offer during a summer festival in Colombia's central department of Meta this weekend.

The Zipaquira Salt Cathedral, popular tourist destination in Cundinamarca, gets illuminated with a brilliant new lighting system.

Ibague, Colombia's "city of music" hosts the 39th Colombian Folklife Festival.

The mountain city of Ibague, known as the "musical city of Colombia," will see an influx of visitors this June when it hosts the Colombian Folklore Festival.

Nemocon, a small town 40 miles north east of Bogota, has been attracting people since the 16th century, and continues to do so.

A re-enactment of the "Comunero Route" is currently marching through the Cundinamarca department, with horseback riders in full military regalia retracing the path of an 18th-century insurrection against Spain.

The central Colombian department of Cundinamarca is being promoted as a new tourist hotspot, aiming to attract visitors interested in ecotourism, agrotourism and extreme sports.

The hand of man has not been idle here. Foolishly busy sometimes, sometimes the hand of man has done that for which it may be justly congratulated. They've built a reservoir up near lake Guatavita by drowning out a long valley. In the valley used to be the ancient, colonial town of Guatavita. In the 1960's they decided to drown the town and rebuilt it higher up the slope.