Breaking borders - Social Impact Graffiti tour | Bogotá

You will start by meeting your travel guide, the founding place of Bogota. There, you will learn about the project while drinking a coffee or agua panela before heading to Nuestra Señora de Egipto, the church located at the entrance of Barrio Egipto, where the local leaders of Breaking Borders will be waiting for you.

Start going up the Calle Real or Royal Street, once the people's only connection to the city, leading you deeper into the neighbourhood. Your guide will then stop with you at El Cuadrado, a central point in the history of gang fights in the area. While in the past this place was a strategic point for control over the territory for the gangs, today, it is painted with pictures.

Walking uphill through the colourful stone streets of the neighbourhood, you will notice how much the area has changed and transformed into a place of hope, peace, and culture. Your guide will illustrate how things used to work in the barrio, with hidden messages and stories behind many of the murals and street art of Barrio Egipto, making it much more than a Bogota Graffiti Tour.

You will then reach the hills where the modest houses of the local guides and their families are bedded into the steep hills overlooking the vast metropolis down below. Despite the challenging conditions in the neighbourhood, the warmth and determination of its people breathe life and joy into the community, inspiring their children to pursue their dreams with passion and resilience. Where many once turned to violence and vengeance, now there is hope, as the new generation fights for a brighter future.

At the end of the tour, you will pass by the Buena Semilla Foundation, a Christian value organisation aiming to support women and children through their textile, wood and music workshops. If you would like to enter the foundation and experience this oasis in the middle of the desert firsthand, you can choose the same tour with workshop option.