This is a tour around Guatape in Colombia. The town is near a large rock called Penol where we begin the tour before heading over to the actual town of Guatape. The town of Guatape itself is full of ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. From a distance, this 10 million-ton stone towering 650 feet above the ...

This video shows El Peñón de Guatapé (La Piedra del Peñol) in Guatapé, Antioquia, Colombia, a giant granite monolith rising ...

It’s millions of years old, weighs in at an estimated 10 million tons, is more than 200m high and has a curious history. But it’s unlikely you would have ever heard of — let alone seen — this ...

That’s because the Rock of Guatapé monolith (also known as El Peñol) is far removed from the typical “attractions” on offer at the well-trodden tourist trails of our favourite destinations such as ...

A view from an airplane window as it flies over Colombia’s central state of Antioquia is the only comparison to the feeling of making it to “the top of the rock with the best view in the world” — as ...