1483 Travel Guide

Cabo de la Vela sits at the northern tip of the Guajira Peninsula—the northernmost point of mainland Colombia—a surreal meeting of desert and Caribbean: red-clay cliffs, windsurfing bays and the totemic colors of the indigenous Wayúu culture. Almost untouched by development, it offers only wind, sand, salt lagoons (like Ojo de Agua) and stars. Travelers reach it by 4x4, watch the sun sink into the sea and the Milky Way stretch overhead, and meet Wayúu weaving and legend. It is both an adventurer's secret and a window onto Colombia's diverse peoples and edge-of-world nature.