Travelpack

Highlights: Colombia - Caldas - Salento - Caribbean - Cartagena - Magdalena

Hotels featured:
✅The Click Clack Hotel Bogotá
✅Hacienda Venecia Coffee Farm Experience - Main House
✅Nacar Hotel Cartagena, Curio
✅Casa Tayrona Los Naranjos, Tayrona

Itinerary:
Mon 10 Jun 2024: Arrival in Bogota
Flight from London Heathrow to Madrid Barajas International Airport
Flight from Madrid Barajas International Airport to Bogota El Dorado Airport
Reception at the airport and transfer to hotel. The hotel is located in the tourist area Parque 93 known for its great restaurants and great atmosphere. Upon arrival, you will receive a Welcome Call from the Andes World Travel Team.

Excludes:
Personal expenses
Insurance
Tips
Everything not mentioned in the "Included" list
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE VISIT TO THE TAYRONA N.P.:
- Due to local indigenous communities' regulations the Tayrona
National Park will close three
times a year in the following periods:
* February 1st to 15th
* June 1st to 15th
* October 13th to November 3rd

Tue 11 Jun 2024: Bogota Full day city tour
Full-day private city tour to the historic part of Bogot. After breakfast, enjoy the historic center of the city on foot. Meeting with the guide in the hotel's lobby. Start the tour in the charming colonial area known as La Candelaria. From here visit the world-famous gold museum, the Plaza Bolivar, and go by cable car to the Monserrate Sanctuary, at 3152 m, overlooking the city. A quick visit to the museum of the famous Colombian artist Botero is also an option. Duration 6-7 hours.
Included meals: Breakfast

Wed 12 Jun 2024: Guatavita Lake & Zipaquira's Salt Cathedral
Early departure and drive to the legendary Lake Guatavita, 1-2 hours from Bogot (if it's not a weekend, holiday, or the day after a holiday). You will do a light hike with stops around the rim while exploring the legend of the Muisca Indians and discussing the greed of the former Conquests. The next stop is a visit to the local restaurant with a lot of atmosphere in one of the charming colonial towns in the highlands of Bogota. Here you will enjoy a typical well-prepared Colombian lunch. Afterwards drive to the Salt Cathedral in Zipaquir, an underground illuminated church built in an ancient and huge working salt mine. Return to Bogot in the late afternoon.
Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Thu 13 Jun 2024: Hacienda & coffee tour
Pick up at hotel in Bogot and morning flight to Manizales or Pereira. Meet at the airport with the staff and transfer downhill to a lush and quiet valley with beautiful views of the coffee plantations to the Hacienda Venecia. Hacienda Venecia has different types of accommodations according to the budget. All of them are very charming and authentic. The Hacienda has around a hundred years of history and it is preserved with great respect for the family's history. The architecture shows a traditional Bahareque construction, typical of the period of Antioquian colonization, consisting of bamboo and clay walls with red-tiled roofs. The Hacienda is dotted by beautiful gardens, terraces, a pool, and a bamboo quiosco perfectly suited to enjoy the charm and smell of the Coffee fields. Lunch in the charming kitchen. In the afternoon, you will have a guided tour of the Hacienda Venecia's own coffee plantations and coffee factory. The coffee farm has won several prizes for its excellent coffee and during this tour, you will see how the coffee is produced, and processed, and finally learn how to make a really good espresso!
Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Fri 14 Jun 2024: Salento & Cocora Valley
Full-day guided tour to Valle Cocora. Pick up at the Hacienda and transfer to the beginning of the Cocora Valley. From here you begin a light hike in a beautiful valley that is dotted with the tallest wax palms in the world. Lunch in a local restaurant. In the afternoon there will be a short visit to Salento to appreciate the paisa architecture before heading back home.
Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Sat 15 Jun 2024: Cartagena & City walk
We leave the coffee farm and head for the Caribbean! Transfer to the nearest airport and domestic flight to Cartagena. From the airport, you are picked up and driven 20 minutes to a hotel in the historic part of Cartagena. In the late afternoon/early evening, walk the old town of Cartagena with a private English-speaking guide. It is a romantic city, full of legends and history, immaculately preserved by an impressive 13 km long stonewall. The old part of the city is a declared World Heritage Site, with its maze of cobble alleys, huge balconies, massive churches, and charming plazas. There will be plenty of photo opportunities and the chance to appreciate the beautiful evening illumination of this romantic city.
Included meals: Breakfast

Sun 16 Jun 2024: Cartagena & City tour
In the morning, meet with the guide and continue exploring historic Cartagena. Start the tour by visiting the San Felipe Fortress, the most technically advanced military building during Spanish colonial times, then visit the old Popa Monastery where you will have a wonderful view of the city. Between these two places, visit the popular marketplace of Bazurto where fruits, vegetables, and fish are traded by the locals, most of them descendants of the slaves of colonial times.
Cartagena is perhaps Colombia's most beautiful and interesting town. It was founded in 1533 and was, during the colonial period, the main Spanish port on the Caribbean coast and the primary gateway to South America to receive slaves and to send treasures to Europe. In the evening there will be free time for shopping, and perhaps to enjoy a drink on the old fortress walls, overlooking the sunset on the Caribbean.
Included meals: Breakfast

Mon 17 Jun 2024: Tayrona National Park
Morning transfer to Tayrona National Park. This is one of the most famous natural parks in Colombia with some of the most beautiful beaches of the Colombian Caribbean coast, right at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the world's highest coastal mountain range. The park has a protected area of 150 km2 of land and 30 Km2 of sea, and is the second most visited park in the country. Due to its privileged location, there is a huge biodiversity and also archeological ruins like Pueblito. Stay at an Ecohotel inside the Natural Park. Arrival at the Park around lunchtime. Check in and afternoon to enjoy the beaches.
Included meals: Breakfast

Tue 18 Jun 2024: Tayrona National Park
Full day to explore the beaches on your own within the Natural Park. The park has well-marked paths which makes it very easy to explore and enjoy the iconic Caribbean beaches such as Arrecife, La Piscina, and El Cabo San Juan and the nature of the place. Lunch and dinner can be held at the restaurants within the park or the hotel.
Included meals: Breakfast

Wed 19 Jun 2024: Departure

Prices and Departures:
Deposit £400pp
✅Y01864 Heathrow from £3829pp
✅Y28628 Birmingham from £3675pp
✅Y28621 Manchester from £3785pp
✅Y28640 Newcastle from £3755pp

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