This salty underground attraction is about 45 minutes outside of Bogota in a quaint town called Zipaquira. An actual salt mine in operation today, there is also an underground cathedral that was built in deserted tunnels deep within the mine. 
180 meters under the earth’s surface you walk through 14 small chapels which represent the sufferings of Christ and lead to a shrine at the bottom which represents the birth, life, and death of Jesus. The actual cathedral is 75 meters in length and 18 meters in height, with a capacity for 8,400 people. The walls are a marbled looking texture of grey to white due to different salt purities; an utterly natural artistic fresco that tastes like salt!
Mining hats adorned we also set into the deeper bowls and tried our hand at mining - chipping away to get a small piece of salt rock for a souvenir. The whole experience was unique and fun. I felt like I was in Fraggle Rock, and who doesn’t love Fraggle Rock?
I love that you know what Fraggle Rock is!! I thought only old people like me remembered that show.
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