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Simply a Walk in the Park

You will be met at your inn by your guide for your visit through Zipaquira and the Salt Cathedral. It is an excursion of about roughly 2 hours to arrive at Zipaquira. One of the wonders of Colombia, the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira is definitely worth the visit. Voyaging north of the city, through the wide-open once involved by the local Muisca Indians, Zipaquira is one of the more mainstream traveler objections in Colombia. Zipaquira is generally popular for its Cathedral cut underground in an actual working salt mine only west of the town. The unobtrusive lighting articulates the fourteen Stations of the Cross as you slip into the mine, each station etched by an alternate craftsman. At the most profound place of the basilica, 180m underneath the world’s surface, you experience the nave and the north and south passageways overwhelmed by the 16m high focal cross. The light and execution of the work are recognition for current strategies and long periods of work from the excavators and craftsmen. Your guide will clarify the development of the house of prayer and how it and the mine actually work incongruity. Around the focal square of the town of Zipaquira, the pilgrim structures actually hold their appeal footed by brickwork clearing and disregarded by the Cathedral Diocesana de San Antonio. After your visit you will move back to Bogota, the inexact appearance time will be mid-evening.

Incorporates private transportation, English guide, access to Salt Cathedral.

Zona Rosa is Bogota’s most gregarious barrio, fixed with stylish bistros, architect shops, store mixed drink bars, and very good quality eateries. In the wake of meeting your guide in your inn anteroom, take off toward the core of Zona Rosa to experience Zona Rosa. The night starts with a mixed drink in a neighborhood frequent before your guide drives the route to a second problem area, maybe Andres Carne de Res, where you’ll appreciate a delectable supper followed by more beverages, all delighted in while taking in unrecorded music. Bogota may not be known as a world capital for nightlife however after around evening time, you’ll understand while Zona Rosa is a neighborhood Mecca. Following an evening of music, rewards, and food, you will be gotten back to your lodging.

Simply a Walk in the Park

Chingaza National Natural Park is helping Bogota and the encompassing region; 80% of the city’s water comes from the district. This massively significant Paramo (or good country eco-framework) is discovered only an hour’s drive north of the city, effectively open by visitors with an interest in dynamic experiences. Today, subsequent to meeting your guide and driver toward the beginning of the day, set out to Chingaza. Upon appearance, set out to investigate a couple of the everything except unlimited paths that are dispersed all through this rambling park that traverses an amazing 76,000 hectares. With frigid lakes and different eco-frameworks home to an abundance of natural life including ungulates, spectacled bears, condors, and jaguars, this is genuinely a novel hold. More than 1,000 remarkable plant species are found in the recreation center, with the odd, textured leaves frailejón plant being among the most uncommon. Furthermore, the recreation center additionally holds profound native importance as the antiquated Muiscas considered this district hallowed and it’s accepted a significant number of the lakes were utilized for strict customs. Following a couple of hours climbing through Chingaza, get back to your anticipating vehicle to start the excursion back to your lodging in Bogota.

A Change of Scenery

You will be secretly moved between Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport and your lodging by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. The inexact travel time is 45 minutes, however, shifts dependent on the area of your lodging.

Load onto a trip in Bogota with the administration to Pereira. The flight length is around 45 minutes.

You will be secretly moved from Pereira Airport to your facilities in the Risaralda Coffee Region by an expert driver and an English-talking guide.

The gourmet specialists of Hotel Sazagua, expertly prepared in the culinary expressions, are broadly respected to be among the nation’s ideal. This evening, take in conventional family plans from the occupant gastronomic bosses at Hotel Sazagua, finding the stunts and strategies expected to set up a portion of Colombia’s most mainstream dishes. After your active exercise utilizing new fixings developed by neighborhood ranchers, get comfortable to feast on your mouth-watering manifestations in the lodging lounge area.

Take to the Trails

Encircled by the natural smell of local trees and the murmuring tune of intriguing birds in an area pronounced a UNESCO Heritage Site in 2011, Sazagua Hotel offers a novel encounter that makes certain to be recollected. Start your day with a newly arranged breakfast matched with delightful, widely acclaimed espresso. Afterward, set out on a rural stroll in and around the property intending to detect probably the most uncommon avian animals found in Colombia. Mountain bluebirds, red-ruffed fruitcrow’s, brilliant olive woodpeckers, hooded antpitta’s, and numerous other striking winged animals call this land home, and with feeders dispersed across the inn grounds, no one but time can determine what you may find. For those searching for a more courageous encounter, exercises, for example, horseback riding can be orchestrated with the assistance of close-by estancias, and for those looking for a more loosened up pace, educational and intelligent exercises including culinary courses or new organic product tastings can likewise be masterminded. If it’s not too much trouble, address your Destination Expert for more data.

Normally gaited with a smooth, four-beat step, Paso Fino ponies are generally viewed as the best variety for trail riding. Imported from Spain hundreds of years prior, Colombian Paso Fino ponies have, through ages, become known for their agreeable nature and cylinder-like walking style. Today you will be combined with a Colombian Paso Fino pony and afterward set out on field trials to investigate the espresso area. Throughout the span of your experience, take in clearing vistas, break for a delicious lunch, and following a couple of hours investigating the district, get off from your pony and board an anticipating vehicle that will return you to your lodging.

Trim Up for Some Fresh Air

Leaving from your cabin in the espresso locale, set off for a day of dynamic disclosure in the Valle de Cocora (or Cocora Valley), first halting in the town of Salento. The fundamental square of this town has not changed by all accounts or character for quite a long time, and an empowering quick rest in a town bistro is the ideal beginning to the day, improved by the hitting roads fixed with splendidly painted Pueblo homes that fill in as a background. Showing up at the passage to the Valle de Cocora, your guide will lead the route across a foot-connect, past a trout ranch, and up a harness way to show up at a post that bears the cost of all-encompassing perspectives on a mountain-bordered vista complemented by wax palm trees, a public image of Colombia and an ensured animal types. Then, climb into the cloud woods on a path that requires cautious consideration; this segment of the climb tracks along with limits with dangerous turns, over huge tree roots, and even across streams, with the vegetation getting progressively thicken route. The prizes merit the exertion, certainly. Amazing birds are frequently seen around here, and – following more waterway intersections on essential footbridges and venturing stones – you’ll show up at Acaime Reserve where 12 hummingbird species have been noticed. Feeders set all through pull in these spellbinding animals, which means you’re everything except sure to see a couple of animal varieties fluttering about. After hot espresso and tidbits, start the return excursion to the passage of the hold, journeying again through moving conditions to arrive at the primary path, and before long, your anticipating vehicle and driver. If it’s not too much trouble, note: This visit requires about three hours of climbing, including two through the troublesome landscape. Reasonable climbing footwear and clothing are required.

Sharpen Your Skills

In a greater number of ways than one, espresso is the mixture of life to numerous far-off and precipitous areas of Colombia. With the ideal environment for developing a portion of the world’s best beans, espresso has become the backbone of the economy, preparing for monetary and social improvement. Today, set out on a private guided visit to visit one of the espresso area’s head ranches, Hacienda Venecia. En route, travel past rolling, verdant slopes covered with lavish fields of espresso, plantains, and yucca, passing Campesinos on their approach to work and kids on their approach to class, before long showing up at the hacienda. From seedling to the espresso mug and each part in the middle, here you’ll find out about the all-encompassing way to deal with development, cooking, and blending supported by the group at Venecia, covering off the involvement in a toast prior to testing your newly arranged, genuinely real Colombian mix. Following your time at Hacienda Venecia, you will be gotten back to your facilities.

You will be secretly moved from your inn in the Risaralda Coffee Region and Pereira Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide.

Get onto a trip in Pereira with the administration to Medellin, associating by means of Bogota. The inexact flight term is three hours.

You will be secretly moved between your facilities and Medellin Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. Estimated travel time differs depending on the area of your lodging, commonly averaging 60 minutes.

Social Immersion

This social improvement visit through Medellin furnishes you with a special chance to investigate the lively Comuna 13 locale and witness the supernatural change of what was once one of the nation’s most upset neighborhoods (”barrios”). Before, Comuna 13 barrio was viewed as perhaps the most savage network in Medellin’s set of experiences. Today, the local features amazing change which has happened via creative, decided social and metropolitan arranging by the neighborhood government and private financial backers. The accomplishment of Comuna 13’s yearning makeover can fill in as motivation and model for disturbed and disregarded networks all throughout the planet. Local area pioneers from the neighborhood association Casa Kolacho manage you through the roads and pathways of this interesting local area. Their work with neighborhood specialists supports a message of solidarity through schooling and cooperation in execution expressions including hip-bounce, spray painting, break-moving, and DJ’ing. The greater part of the live craftsmanship that you will see on the dividers and on the roads has been created by young people around there.

This evening, appreciate time at recreation to investigate at your own speed or unwind at your lodging.

Stretch your Legs

You will be met in the inn anteroom by your guide and taken to El Peñol, an excursion enduring around two hours. This road trip from Medellin brings you into the wide-open of Antioquia to the goliath stone monument rock of El Peñol. Suggestive of Sugar Loaf Mountain in Rio, this 656-foot (200-meter) high stone pinnacles over a progression of lovely lakes with mountain scenery. In the delicate, undulating view it is hard not to see the value in the dazzling differentiation between this pleasant district and the advanced, cosmopolitan city of Medellin. At the top, you are welcomed with a 360-degree higher perspective of the encompassing open country. There is regularly a guide on the highest point of the stone to clarify the nearby topography of the space and a portion of the surprising stone arrangements around the lakes beneath, just as to call attention to the seized places of notorious Medellin inhabitant Pablo Escobar. The close-by town of Guatape is a lakeside escape for the occupants of Medellin and is an ideal area to investigate the rustic appeal of Antioquia and go for a relaxed stroll along the waterfront or through the fundamental town square with its splendidly painted houses and retail facades. Guatape has a few pretty waterfront eateries to appreciate delightful snacks cooked utilizing privately sourced fixings. Kindly note: Guests ought to get ready for broad strolling, regularly on unpleasant, wet, or lopsided ground. Bold, agreeable footwear is prudent. All out strolling time can be customized nearby, in any case, visitors ought to hope to stroll for at least one hour and 30 minutes, and up to a limit of four hours.

The Journey Continues…

You will be secretly moved between your facilities and Medellin Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. Rough travel time differs depending on the area of your inn, normally averaging 60 minutes.

Get onto a trip in Medellin with the administration to Santa Marta. The estimated flight length is one hour and 15 minutes. If it’s not too much trouble, note, this flight is non-refundable.

You will be secretly moved from Simon Bolivar Airport in Santa Marta and your facilities in Tayrona National Park by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. The estimated travel term is 60 minutes.

Adventure into the Outdoors

Other than the town of Santa Marta, world-popular for its wonderful geology, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the most noteworthy seaside mountain range on the planet, is Tayrona National Park. With a neighborhood private guide, leave on a day-long visit, beginning your stroll along regular pathways through semi-tropical wilderness vegetation towards the recreation center’s seashores, finding out about the vegetation, creatures, and biological system en route. Strolling alongside one of the fantastic seashores you may have the chance to swim, contingent upon the state of the oceans. Lunch is incorporated during your visit.

A Bit of Time all alone

Heaven in the Santa Marta locale, Cayena Beach Villa is a desert spring of harmony and quietness. Start your day with new and solid breakfast, at that point take a comfortable plunge at the estate’s multi-layered pool in the wake of relaxing in the lounger or the padded folding chair. Relish in luxurious palm-roofed spaces, appreciate a back rub, or on the other hand, stroll over to the seashore while taking in the hints of waves sprinkling against the beige seashore sand and the tranquil whistle of the breeze among the trees. End the day by fulfilling your sense of taste with connoisseur cooking at the estate’s eatery.

On the Road Again

You will be secretly moved from Tayrona National Park to Cartagena by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. En route, separate the five-hour move with a visit to Barranquilla. A clamoring city that is host to the biggest Carnival festivity outside of Rio, the city is likewise referred to among gastro-devotees as the best position for true Colombian Caribbean and combination cooking. Appreciate a concise city visit matched with a scrumptious lunch prior to getting back to the street and conveying forward to your inn in Cartagena.

El Gobernador Restaurant is extraordinary compared to other gastro-houses in Cartagena. Driven by culinary specialist Viviana Lievano, the cooking fixates on conventional nearby staples, all set up with naturally maintainable items. The tasting menu offers remarkable flavors spread across nine courses, featured by joys, for example, the well-known Coco Loco treat. Found inside Bastión Luxury Hotel, El Gobernador by Rausch addresses the best in Colombian gastronomy, serving delectable manifestations individually or as a component of their eminent tasting menu. Around evening time, reservations will be made ahead of time so you can encounter El Gobernador by Rausch for yourself. Please note: Your dinner is excluded and will be paid for on the spot. Reservations are affirmed at the hour of booking and are dependent upon accessibility.

A Walk Through the Past

Subsequent to meeting your English-talking guide in the entryway of your lodging, set out to find picturesque Cartagena on a four-hour strolling visit. Start with a walk around the old town making a beeline for the Puerta Del Reloj, a notorious image of the city, and into Plaza de Los Coches. Find out about the fantasy, legends, and history of this noteworthy city as you wind your way through tree-lined roads on the way to Plaza Bolivar, a recreation center facilitating a scope of notable and social establishments that fills in as the ideal spot to get a brief look at neighborhood life. Conveying forward, you’ll following visit the Inquisition Palace, an exquisite structure that shrouds a dull past. From an external perspective, it is not difficult to be dazzled by the pioneer engineering, however, a stroll through the structure uncovers a historical center displaying instruments of torment that were utilized in more violent occasions. With a specialist direct driving the way, find Cartagena top to bottom and at your favored speed. After the visit, don’t hesitate to keep on investigating the city all alone, or get back to your inn to unwind and beat the evening sun.

Past the perfect guestrooms, extraordinary food, outstanding help, and a best-in-class spa, Bastion Luxury Hotel stands apart from other Cartagena lodgings because of its housetop pool. Managing the cost of all-encompassing perspectives on noteworthy Cartagena, the housetop pool at Bastion Luxury Hotel might be the best around there. Kick-back and unwind during your personal time around there, sitting on hammocks with a flavorful reward close by, or maybe swim a couple of laps while getting a charge out of the fresh Cartagena air.

Until Next Time…

You will be secretly moved between your inn and Cartagena Airport by an expert driver and an English-talking guide. Surmised travel time changes depending on the area of your inn, commonly averaging 30 minutes.