Lesson 7.1.2 · De viaje por Colombia
✈️ Travel & Tourism in Colombia
Colombia rewards travelers who can talk their way through hotels, taxis, museums, and border desks. This lesson covers the full travel vocabulary — from passport to playa to la cuenta, por favor.
Sub-lessons
Break this lesson into focused chunks. Each sub-lesson has its own Memory Lab — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaved review, and shadowing — scoped to just those words.
Getting there: airport & flight
Whether you're landing at El Dorado (Bogotá), José María Córdova (Medellín), or Rafael Núñez (Cartagena), these are the words you'll see on every screen and hear at every counter.
trip / travel
¡Buen viaje! — Have a good trip!
airport
airplane
flight
gate
Puerta 12 — Gate 12.
exit / departure
arrival
luggage
suitcase
passport
ticket
customs
visa
Example sentences
Necesito el viaje, por favor.
I need the trip / travel, please.
¿Dónde está el aeropuerto?
Where is the airport?
Me gusta el avión.
I like the airplane.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el viaje?
Where is the trip / travel?
Me gusta el aeropuerto.
I like the airport.
Hotel, reception & the bill
Front-desk Spanish — checking in, asking for the key, settling up.
hotel
reception / front desk
reservation
Tengo una reserva a nombre de…
room
key
bill / check
¿Me regala la cuenta? — Could I get the bill?
Example sentences
Necesito el hotel, por favor.
I need the hotel, please.
¿Dónde está la recepción?
Where is the reception / front desk?
Me gusta la reserva.
I like the reservation.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el hotel?
Where is the hotel?
Me gusta la recepción.
I like the reception / front desk.
Getting around the city
Public transport, taxis, and reading a map. In big cities use apps (Cabify, DiDi); intercity, the bus terminal is your friend.
taxi
bus
train
Rare in Colombia — mostly tourist routes.
station
map
direction / address
lost
Estoy perdido — I'm lost.
Example sentences
Necesito el taxi, por favor.
I need the taxi, please.
¿Dónde está el bus?
Where is the bus?
Me gusta el tren.
I like the train.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el taxi?
Where is the taxi?
Me gusta el bus.
I like the bus.
Sightseeing & spending
What tourists do, where they do it, and how they pay for it.
tourist
vacation
excursion / day trip
guide
city
country
beach
Cartagena, Santa Marta, San Andrés.
museum
Museo del Oro in Bogotá is unmissable.
restaurant
money
On the street: 'la plata'.
change (money / exchange)
price
expensive
¡Qué caro! — How expensive!
cheap / inexpensive
Example sentences
Necesito el turista, por favor.
I need the tourist, please.
¿Dónde está los vacaciones?
Where is the vacation?
Me gusta la excursión.
I like the excursion / day trip.
Mini-diálogo
¿Dónde está el turista?
Where is the tourist?
Me gusta los vacaciones.
I like the vacation.
Memory lab
Five research-backed techniques — active recall, mnemonics, elaboration, interleaving, and production — applied to this lesson's vocabulary. Your progress trains a spaced-repetition schedule under the hood.
Force the answer from memory before peeking. The struggle is the workout — that's the testing effect.
Recall from English
arrival
Practice exercises
Test what stuck. Multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank — pulled live from this lesson's vocabulary.
caro
change (money / exchange)
direction / address
la visa
las vacaciones
arrival
Fill the blank
¿Dónde está la _____?
Where is the reception / front desk?
Fill the blank
Me gusta el _____.
I like the train.
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