Tequendama Falls (or Salto del Tequendama) is a major tourist attraction about 30 km southwest of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. The thousands of tourists who visit the area to admire the 157 metre (515 feet) tall waterfall and the surrounding nature, make a stop at another nearby landmark as well, the abandoned Hotel del Salto.
The luxurious Hotel del Salto opened in 1928 to welcome wealthy travelers visiting the Tequendama Falls area. Situated just opposite to the waterfall and on the edge of the cliff, it provided a breathtaking view to its guests. During the next decades though, Bogotá river was contaminated and tourists gradually lost their interest to the area. The hotel finally closed down in the early 90's and was left abandoned ever since. The fact that many people in the past chose that spot to commit suicide, made others believe that the hotel is haunted.
Update: Hotel del Salto has now been turned into a museum.
Update: Hotel del Salto has now been turned into a museum.
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Text sources: Wikipedia, eyesoncolombia.wordpress.com
Photos sources: 1 Arturo Aparicio/Panoramio, 2 perhaps originally from Alveart/flickr.com, edited here, 3-4 CAUT/flickr.com, 5 pcerisolafernandez/flickr.com, 6, 7, 13, 14 hellagood.co, 8 ratiti/flickr.com, 9 oxigenate/flickr.com, 10 dgroup/flickr.com, 11 ivanrana11/flickr.com, 12 eyesoncolombia.wordpress.com
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Very beautiful.... sad that it is abandoned...
ReplyDeleteIt is a very beautiful place. I would love to have it!
ReplyDeleteAnd it is also sad that too many people chose to end their life there :(
that hotel is in a scooby doo movie
ReplyDeletelol :D
DeleteCan't anyone go inside to look around? I wonder if its possible to ask if anyone can visit the inside? I would love to see it...
ReplyDeleteme too
DeleteWonderful, I will definitely make a trip to this place when I next go to Bogota. Thanks for the wonderful photos.
ReplyDeleteits very nice place....i want to leave for a weak...
ReplyDeleteSurely someone owns the property? I wonder who. Thanks for your atmospheric pictures.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a haunted mansion. So sad to hear that they closed because of contaminated water. Thank you for sharing the pictures it's beautiful.
ReplyDeletele soleil de boracay
I had a dream about that place, chiefly, the upper middle window. I was flying through it and our of the back of the house. The whole place is familiar to me because of this dream, I cannot believe I am seeing it now.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful I would love to live in a place like that all fixed up it would be amazing
ReplyDeleteit could be my holidays house...
ReplyDeleteI had a dream about it too! A pink hotel by a waterfall. I saw just one photo of the building on an "abandoned places" list and I did not know that there was a waterfall nearby until I just learned the name of the hotel now and researched it - I was fascinated by the photo and now I am even more fascinated because I remember the dream, although the hotel looked a little different I am certain this was the "same place." I even wonder if I died there once in a past life or something. So weird.
ReplyDeleteis not longer abandoned, nowadays is open as a museum: http://diarioadn.co/especiales/galerias/museo-salto-del-tequendama-7.21049
ReplyDeleteThank you for the information. I updated the post.
Deletewould have loved to see it inside an outside before it was turned into a museum!defiently would hav been more interesting to visit!
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