12º 71º
26´ 03,3´´ N 34´ 48,8´´ O
Taroa Dunes, Guajira, Colombia
Why GO EXPLORE COLOMBIA? Colombia is a magical destination, full of wonderful tales, different cultures with an astonishing beauty that surprises you, awakening your curiosity until it compels you to explore it all. However, traveling around the country can be complex, long and sometimes contain a bit of uncertainty due to the fact that is just starting to open to the world in terms of tourism and developing infrastructure. Discovering and enjoying a real alternative experience beyond the typical commercial coach tour through the most famous spots can be complicated and difficult. We want to make it easy for you and take you to discover Colombia in depth! We have travelled to all of our destinations and will take you by the hand to engage in the best experiences, the kind that we are certain that no commercial tour will offer as our experiences develop while in route with the people and friends that you are traveling with, living out to the fullest each adventure.
Together we will discover places and sensations, we will share with the locals nurturing our explorer’s spirit with their stories and we will be able to get lost in a desert beach and try fruits that you never even knew existed.
All this we are going to do through hostels and hotels owned by locals in order to support their economy, encouraging local communities and their leaders to get involved in new and sustainable business like this model of tourism, which will in turn help to develop their people. We want to GO EXPLORE COLOMBIA with you in a different and alternative way. With GO EXPLORE COLOMBIA -You will know stories, people and the everyday life of its culture. -You go with an experienced and friendly EXPLORER with the best attitude to take you to live a wonderful experience. - We have already discovered every destination in depth to take you and enjoy every detail.
WE WANT TO
GO EXPLORE
COLOMBIA
WITH YOU And take you to discover
NEW DIFFERENT and FUN ways to
GO EXPLORE
COLOMBIA
1º 76º
07´ 52,3´´ N 37´ 30,2´´ O
Fin del Mundo, Putumayo - Colombia
Through alternative routes that will give you the chance to have a deeper vision of this grandiose and beautiful country 2º 76º
01´ 46,5´´ N 10´ 51,4´´ O
Bordones Canyon, Huila - Colombia
LET’S GO EXPLO We want to invite you to enjoy a magical country! Colombia’s geographical privilege allows you to discover a large variety of ecosystems that we are sure you won’t find in any other parts in the world. Places where you can stay in a volcano at more than 5000mts (16,400 ft) of altitude surrounded by glaciers, and that same day enter in a tropical primary jungle that extends as far as the horizon, as well as travel along virgin deserted beaches and meeting indigenous cultures.
ORE COLOMBIA! Without a doubt, Colombia is a destination to be enjoyed by exploring thousands of stories, landscapes, cultural, musical and gastronomical traditions with the chance to make hundreds of new friends that will remain engrained in your memory for ever.
We are Travelers like you Kind Flexible Respectful Patience Honest We love to GO EXPLORE the world!
MAKE YOUR
CHOICE! TREKS
ROADTRIPS
DAY TRIPS
EXPEDITIONS MOUNTANEERING
PHOTO
ON BIKE
KAYAKING
OGRAPHY TRIPS
BIRDWATCHING
Activity Index This are the types of adventures and places that you can enjoy with us.
Sports Places Activites Culture
Rappelling
Diving
Snorkelling
Waterfalls
Beach
Cable Car
Glaciers
Cities
Colonial Towns
Caves
Andean Forest
Dry tropical Forest
Whale watching
Monkey watching
Roadtrip
Photography
Astronomy
Boat trip
Festivals and Carnivals
Hot Springs
Camping
Birdwatching
Horseback riding
Culture
Music
Agriculture
Pictograms
Sugar Cane
Coffee Process
Afro-American culture
Archaeology
Handcrafting
Indigenous cultures
Trekking
Kitesurfing
Kayaking
Canyoning
Rafting
Cycling
Desert
Jungle
Volcanoes
Paramos
Urban art
ROADTRIP
11º 72º
44´ 51,6´´ N 31´ 26,0´´ O
Guajira - Colombia
Let yourself be seduced by the explorative nature of a Roadtrip A Roadtrip is a tour by land in a private vehicle that will tell you stories as well as take you to enjoy amazing places in the company of a friend who already knows all the ins-and-outs of the places that we will visit, ready to live the experience on the road with you, a partner for the trip and someone you can trust. With thousands of kilometers ahead, a Roadtrip tells us its stories through the dream landscape and the exuberant and changing vegetation of the different and distinct regions that you will cross. This trip takes you to some virgin and lesser known and visited places around the country that still preserve their natural and local charm. Do you want to GO EXPLORE them with us? This is a flexible trip, allowing you to deviate a bit from the overall itinerary in order to further experience something that has stood out along the way. Or, if the raw beauty and nature of the Colombian landscape has overloaded your senses, you can feel free to just let our guides know that you want to spend some extra time chilling in a hammock, not worrying about having to adjust the logistics. More than anything, we want you to be able enjoy your excursion in a stress free environment!
12º 26´ 40,6´´ N 71º 41´ 02,6´´ O Punta Gallinas Night, Guajira - Colombia
RoadTrip
GUAJIRA
AND ITS ANCESTRAL DESERTS
Colombi
Punta Gallinas
Local Accommodation
Manuaure Salt flats
ia has 84 different indigenous cultures
Come with us to the hallucinating landscape of the only desert on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, located next to one of the most iconic places in the world, The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Guajira is a magical place, where the Wayuu traditions get mixed with its particular and surprising nature. Surrounded by incredible jungles and beautiful beaches, you will be able to find archaeological vestiges, bordered by majestic glaciers above 5000mts (16,404ft) peaks.
View from El Pilon de Azucar
The trip includes a tour full of clear and beautiful nights, plants that struggle to survive in this dry and mysterious land, where you are accompanied by the sound of the wind moving the sand between the bushes along the desert and the stars in the sky. This is something that you don’t want to miss!
Desert beaches
RoadTrip
THE TURN OF THE SOU
INSIDE THE COLOMBIAN MOUNTAINS
UTH
3º 75º
13´ 59,6´´ N 10´ 07,3´´ O
Tatacoa Desert, Huila - Colombia
Sibundoy Valley
Popayan
Colour Idol
Grey zone Pool La Cocha Lagoon
Take part in one of the most amazing Roadtrips that you can find, The Turn of the South. This marvelous trip of approximately 15 days invites you to go deep inside the south of the Colombian mountains. This is a magical place where the three Cordilleras (three mountain chains) and the Magdalena River, both of which cross the country from south to north, originate. In our tour we will come across ancient and still unknown indigenous vestiges that remain a mystery for archeologists, impressive canyons with 400mt (1,312ft) tall waterfalls and semi desert ecosystems with spectacular clear nights full of bright shining stars. We will travel together until The End of the World, where the majestic Amazonian jungle begins in Putumayo Region, and on to then climb through the mountains from 400mts (1,312ft) to a height of 3200mts (10,499ft) above the sea level in just few hours, following old and twisted roads opened by military engineers in the 1930s. This tour will allow us to arrive to a land of ancestral Volcanos and Paramos, full of different kind of greens, home of Frailejones, the Condor of the Andes, as well as beautiful lagoons.
The biodiversity in Colombia is equal to 20% of the entire world.
6º 75º
47´ 58,2´´ N 13´ 59,5´´ O
Guadalupe Falls, Antioquia - Colombia
RoadTrip
THE GUADALUPE FALLS
AND THE ANTIOQUENIAN TRADITIONS
Cable Car, Guadalupe Falls, Antioquia, Colombia
Hospedaje Casa Raquel
Coffee Finca La Teresita
Ancient country side hou
A cable car that within 10 minutes, allows you to experience a temperature change between approximately 16 Cº (60.8 F) to 28 Cº (82.4 F).
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Deep within the Antioquian Mountains are tucked away the Guadalupe falls with more than 250mts (820ft) in altitude. A cable car built in the 1950s takes you to a place from where you can enjoy a landscape loaded with stories and sensations. This two day route takes you to meet traditional towns in Antioquia like Carolina, with colonial architecture full of history, and then ending the day in Angostura, another small town to the north of Antioquia full of traditions and not barely touched by tourists until now. From there we will spend the night in a colonial traditional house built 140 years ago. Step by step we will get to see old sugar cane mills where they produce one of the main products of the local agro-industry and a national sweetener, Panela. The next day we have the chance to be delighted by a premium cup of local coffee, and see where the most dedicated and detailed processes of coffee cultivation are born. La Teresita Special Coffee Origin, is a perfect example and demonstrates why Colombian coffee is the best of the world!
Sugarcane Mill
73º 6º
82´ 51,87´´ W 06´ 35,30´´ N
Landscape at El Peñon, Santander - Colombia
Roadtrip
ADVENTURE IN THE KARSTIC FOREST OF EL PEÑON DISCOVER THIS STRANGE AND AMAZING LANDSCAPE WITH THE BIGGEST CAVES IN COLOMBIA
Colombia is also known as the “1,000 rhythms country”, you can find 1,025 catalogued musical rhythms, and at least 30 are famous such as, Vallenato, Cumbia, Bambuco, Porro, etc
140 meters under the ground, Santander, Colombia
Underground river
Panamá canyon
Entrace to a cave
Let yourself amaze and come to discover with us one of the last frontiers of the nature and the biodiversity in Colombia. El Peñon, Santander, let’s go and visit this little town at 2100meters above the sea level, with its unique and beautiful landscape at the south of Santander, where just about 5 hours by car from Bogota and from the hand of experts in geology and speleology we will discover the magic of its Karstic landscape. All this area of the west side of the East chain of the Colombian Andes is rich in calcareous formation that mixed with a leafy humid mountain forest allows us to enjoy a unique landscape, where caves abound per dozens and its possible to find in this area the biggest and the oldest of its kind in Colombia, creating a complex and strange ecosystem which even that we note that is green, rich and humid we cannot see the rivers crossing the mountains, because the waters are only flowing underground, snaking along the intricate maze that this karstic landscape has created looking like a giant cheese. We are going to have the accommodation at a local farmers house and from there we are going to visit several places during the day, like caves, forests and amazing rocky formations!.
Sunrise in the mountains
Roadtrip
OCETÁ PARAMO
and the east of Boyacá
a land of exquisite beauty
5° 43´ 10,04´´ N 72° 47´ 57,94´´ W Ocetá Paramo
In the Mountain
Monguí, Boyacá
Paramo Landscape
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Rock canyon at 3600 mts
This exploration will take us to a mountainous area at the north of Bogotá, in the east of the department of Boyacá, in which we will visit, some beautiful colonial towns like, Monguí, or Iza, an important monuments of the independence of Colombia like Pantano de Vargas or Boyacá bridge, the Tota Lagoon which is the second biggest in Latin America after Titicaca, and at last the Ocetá Paramo natural reserve.
Tota Lagoon at 3000mts
Although Colombia is 10 times smaller than Brazil it has nearly the same amount of plants, around 55,000 species!
Ocetá Paramo is a regional natural reserve that is a magical place which is located at 3900mts above the sea level, three hours hiking away from Mongui, a Colonial well preserved town of the east of Boyacá; once sacred to the Muisca culture, today a natural heritage of the country, that holds amazing landscapes at the ¨Paramo¨, unique landscape of Colombia located above 3000mts above the sea level that contains a very special and dedicated type of vegetation which due to the height, the cold weather and the less oxygen level is lower, thicker and takes longer time to grow, creating a bonsai garden in a large amount of greens that includes the king of this vegetation, the Frailejon, a rare type of tree that only grows in the tropical ¨Paramo¨ land of Colombia and Venezuela, this one looks more like palm tree, and takes at least one year only to grow one centimetre.
Roadtrip
THREE GEMS
OF THE NATURE IN SANTANDER.
LAS VENTANAS DE TISQUIZOQUE, PEÑÓN CA
AVES AND GUADALUPE RIVERS
5° 48´ 36.75 ´´N 73° 57´ 42.48´´ W Cave Tisquizoque Windows
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Colombia is also known as the “1,000 rhythms country”, you can find 1,025 catalogued musical rhythms, and at least 30 are famous such as, Vallenato, Cumbia, Bambuco, Porro, etc.
Waterfall Tisquizoque Windows
Undergroud river in a cave
This is a 7 days’ adventure that will take us to enjoy one of the ultimate borders of the biodiversity in Colombia. We will do an exploration by the southwest part of Santander Department, to see one of the best well-kept secrets of the incredible nature of this department, located in 3 different towns: Florian: El Peñón and Guadalupe. Rocky formation with pool shape in river View from a mountain
In this places we will visit, rivers, waterfalls, underground rivers, amazing fog and unique karstic forests. The first place that we are going to visit is Las Ventanas de Tisquizoque at Florian, we will be there by 2 days, this is an incredible waterfall that has around 300mts, which opens a hole in the rock wall of the mountain creating a cave through it flows downs the cliff precipitating another 3 steps like creating stairs with the water. Surely the landscape will amaze you!
Roadtrip
ADVENTURE INTO THE COFFEE FIELDS
THE INCREDIBLE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWE
EST ANTIOQUIA: JARDÍN
5° 35´ 45.4 ´´N 75° 49´ 09.5´´ W Jardín
The Coffee landscape in Colombia has been declared as World heritage by the UNESCO since 2011. The exuberant region of Southwest Antioquia is a magical landscape full of cultural richness as well as biodiversity. We will be travelling south of Medellin towards Jardín, a small and typical colonial town deep inside the coffee area that also are part of the national network of Patrimonial Towns of Colombia, Jardín will be our final destination and HQ. Our journey will cover a very scenic road full of beautiful views of the green and astonishing mountains of the southwest Antioquia. We are going to have the chance there to walk around this beautiful town, interact with the people, also to see and learn more about the coffee process in a small coffee plantation that will include a horseback riding tour through the coffee fields, and in the end to understand from the hands of locals, why the Colombian Coffee is one of the best of the world. We will do as well one birdwatching hiking tour to learn and enjoy the amazing biodiversity of the mountain forest of the Andes.
Roadtrip
ROADTRIP BOGOTÁ-S CULTURE AND NATU
A ROADTRIP OF CULTURE, MOUNTAINS AND
SALENTO URE TRIP
D COFFEE
4° 38´ 22.3 ´´N 75° 28´ 39.6´´ W Wax Palm tree Forest
This trip is made to complement any trip around the Coffee axis in Salento and enjoy in a different way the road between the capital of Colombia and the beautiful town of Salento with the Cocora Valley and in the middle different amazing places, like the surroundings of Manizales and Pereira. For doing this trip we will cross very different landscapes in the Andes of Colombia by the road, like the old town nearby the Magdalena river of Honda which in the Colonial times use to be a very important port to access the capital, then we will climb the central mountain range aside of Los Nevados National Park to cross by Manizales city and some hours later to arrive Salento our final destination before starting any tour around that area.
Trekking
Coffee Process
Roadtrip
Roadtrip
CHICAMOCHA ADVEN CULTURE AND ADVENTURE IN THE HEART OF SANTANDER
NTURE TRIP
6° 44´ 16.1 ´´N 73° 04´ 06.5´´ W Chicamocha Canyon
This is a 7 days’ trip that will take us to enjoy some amazing adventure experiences in San Gil Santander, the so called adventure capital of Colombia. Santander is a very mountainous region, full of colonial towns and is very different to what is the usual deep green that we can see in many other areas of Colombia. This one is more dry, yet is not necessarily out of green, just host a very different flora that worth’s to see it in first hand! The existence of great mountains, creates a unique opportunity to enjoy its rivers, canyons and views in a spectacular way, reason why the area is full of adventure experiences for us to enjoy! Let yourself be seduced by our proposal of trip to submerge your vacations in an adventure that you will never forget, and that will lead you to return and see even more.
Roadtrip
HUILA ROADTRIP: TH CULTURE AND AN INTER-ANDEAN DESE
A TRIP TO SAN AGUSTIN AND TATACOA DES
HE FORGOTTEN
SERT
SERT
3° 16´ 20.3 ´´N 75° 11´ 45.3´´ W Tatacoa Desert
We are going to visit one of the rarest places deep inside the Andes, just aside of the mighty Magdalena river, the so Called Tatacoa desert, with a surface of 330 square kilometers, marks a vast area that in reality geographically is not a desert, is a Tropical dry forest, that in the end is so dry and arid that looks like a desert. Alongside the Magdalena river and going more to the south we will visit the town of San Agustin, up in the mountains where the Andes is only one big massif in Colombia, we will be amazed and surprised by the arqueological sites and statues that remain as mute witnesses of a lost civilization that nobody even knows its name, and that only in the last decades due to some scientist and their research we can know at least some hints that takes us to imagine how they lived and who they were, but what we now is that they adored the river as the mother that gives life to this vast land that today is Called Colombia.
Roadtrip
THE ROADTRIP OF THE CAPITALS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO SEE THE LARGEST CITIES
5° 53´ 20.3 ´´N 74° 51´ 19.3´´ W Rio Claro Natural Reserve
This is a tour to slow down the rhythm of your trip and takes you to see off the beaten path places that normally the people are not visiting but are amazing! Due to the different landscapes, its forest and the history behind the towns alongside the road. Our idea is to take a different route to get to one of this two cities, Medellin or Bogota. Normally everybody travelling between these ones does it by plane just to see the cities, but did you know that in the middle there is an amazing road full of mountain views, old towns, incredible forests and natural attractions that usually never appear at Lonely Planet guide? This is a 415kms road that crosses two mountain chains, the biggest river of the Colombian Andes and many more. We want to do this by car but taking three days to stop by in small towns, trying different fruits, sharing with the locals, visiting natural reserves, and all the time staying at comfortable hotels!
EXPEDITIONS
6º 10´ 20,4´´ N 77º 28´ 24,8´´ O Bahia Solano beach, Choco, Colombia
Dare yourself to enter into the depth of the most hidden places of this beautiful and huge country with Expeditions using a larger variety of activities during the trip to improve the experience. Let yourself wade into an unknown world that awaits you! We will take you to live amongst and come in contact with the local communities as you will encounter unique and interesting animals as well as unknown places that are sure to remain engrained in your memory.
Expeditions
CHOCO
A PLACE OF EXUBERANT BEAUTY
5º 77º
59´ 44,8´´ N 21´ 32,0´´ O
Humpback Whale Watching, Choco, Colombia
El Valle Hanging Bridge
The rainiest place on earth can be found in Choco, Colombia, where it on average rains more than 10 times the amount in any other normal place in the world.
Tangara
Sunset at the Pacific Coa
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Choco Jungle Flowers
El Chocó is a wild and barren region of Colombia and a territory invaluable for its biodiversity. Because of its geographical location as the conduit between South and Central America, it is home to a vast array of animal and plant species from both subcontinents. Its geographic variety ranges from high Paramos (alpine moorlands) ecosystems in the Andean mountains to vast expanses of exuberant jungle. A large number of streams and rivers run from east to west, where they empty into the Pacific Ocean. Beyond its rich fauna and flora, El Chocó is home to Colonos (descendants of white sugar planters), Afro-Colombians and indigenous people. Travelers who visit El Chocó have the privilege of experiencing a place of magnificent natural beauty that has remained largely isolated through the years.
Bahia Solano Beach
2° 15´ 53,95´´ N 73° 47´ 47,75´´ W Caño Cristales
Expedition
CAÑO CRISTALES
THE RIVER OF THE SEVEN COLORS DIVE INTO ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MARVELS OF COLOMBIA
Caño Cristales
The biodiversity in Colombia is equal to 20% of the entire world.
Photography: Mario Carvajal cc 2012
Caño Cristales is one of those destinations that you don’t want to miss, it is an amazing marvel of nature. Caño Cristales is a small river coming down La Macarena Sierra which is part of a very unique region. Its rock Quartzite is part of the Guyanan Shield,one of the most ancient geological formations in the world with more than 1.2 billion years old. Is famous for the Macarena Clavigera, a unique aquatic plant which lives in this river that spans 100kms, and changes its colour into red only once a year between July and November, and then turns into green again, as if it was starting to hibernate until the next year.
Caño Cristales
Caño Cristales
This amazing expedition will take you to a small chain of mountains with a unique ecosystem. There is no better day during that established season to see the river and its colors, maybe at the end of October and November it will start to change the colors again. The Colours can vary and the water level, the climate and the sunlight.
2° 34´ 20,90´´ N 72° 41´ 14,11´´ W Lagoon in the jungle
Expedition
DISCOVER
THE DIFFERENT NATURE
OF GUAVIARE
View of the Amazonian Jungle
Hiking through the jungle
Rock Pictograms
Waterfall in the Jungle
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Lets go to enjoy a 4 to 5-day expedition in this unique and incredible landscape of Guaviare. Formed between the regional borders of the Orinoquia Flat lands, and the Colombian Amazon Jungle. Located precisely at the heart of the mostly unexplored and almost forgotten part of Colombia due to the presence of illegal armed groups in the last decades. Nowadays, it is much safer, permitting this amazing land to opens its doors for us to explore in a sustainable way.
Colombia is also known as the “1,000 rhythms country”, you can find 1,025 catalogued musical rhythms, and at least 30 are famous such as, Vallenato, Cumbia, Bambuco, Porro, etc.
This land is graced by amazing protruding rock formations, full of labyrinths, natural bridges and rivers that flow over the plain rock, forging a path alongside a single reddish stone slab. These slabs are where you will find the stunning Macarenia Clavigera, the famous endemic and delicate plant which changes its colour to red in the second semester of the year in the same manner as Caño Cristales. We can visit the three following different landscapes at the same time in very short distance: The Orinoquia flat lands, the Amazon jungle and the Serrania landscape. This region contains a wide variety of flora y fauna, boasting an exuberant biodiversity.
Rocky formation river
Expeditions
SECRET BEACHES OF THE COLOMBIAN CAR
A JOURNEY OF CHILL AND RELAX AT THE C
F RIBBEAN
CARIBBEAN
9° 47´ 29.0 ´´N 75° 51´ 17.8´´ W San Bernardo Islands
This is a magical trip to discover the most secret beaches of the Colombian Caribbean, where we will enter between the departments of Sucre, and Bolívar in an archipelago south of Cartagena de Indias, which are not the Rosario Islands! to visit some of the most unexplored beaches and little frequented by mass tourism in order to have an experience of rest and renewing disconnection. We will visit the archipelago of the San Bernardo Islands, which with its 10 islands of only 213 square kilometers together invite us to enjoy the tranquility of nature and the friendly service of the locals in an unforgettable retreat that will recharge your energies. Where we will discover its mangrove forests, its white beaches, the culinary delights of the locals, we can do some water sports or simply enjoy the sun and a good book on the beach.
Expeditions
OVERFLIGHT TO NNP CHIRIBIQUETE
THE LAST FRONTIER OF THE UNTOUCHED J
JUNGLE
0° 56´ 42.3 ´´N 72° 51´ 08.8´´ W NNP Chiribiquete
Travel with us to see from the sky the Chiribiquete National Park. This is one of the last and biggest undiscovered areas by the western world deep inside the Amazon jungle, more than 4´100.000 square hectares of jungle and spectacular rocky formations, these ones are part of the Guyanan Shield which is the oldest formation in the world having around 1.5 billion years old, that with time and the erosion they have been creating incredible and intricate formations that can be as height as 1000 above the jungle. This National park has no entry by land or by river, is in the middle of the dense jungle at least two weeks by boat from the next town. Because is area is so remote, the government of Colombia has prohibited the entrance to the people, locals or tourist because this is easy one of the last frontiers that the west world and the modernity hasn’t touched and conquered yet.
Expeditions
JUNGLE TRIP TO LA MACARENA DISCOVER THE BEAUTY BEYOND CAÑO CRISTALES
2° 17´ 58.7 ´´N 73° 53´ 24.8´´ W Guayabero Canyon
With this amazing 4 day trip you will have the possibility to enjoy the famous destination of Caño Cristales La Macarena as is called the Municipality, but this time at your own pace, exploring calmly the off the beaten path jungle that you never visit when you are only going to la Caño Cristales the river. You will be amazed by the secrets that waits for you!. Hiking, or using canoes we will go deep to enjoy geological rocky formations resembling cities, canyons like the mighty Cajon at Raudal Guayabero 1, carved in the rock deep inside the jungle by which the waters leaks sometimes even creating waterfalls, or quiet secret lagoon inside the jungle. We will have the chance to observe ancient petroglyphs carved in the rock. We will go by the hand of the local guides of the community to do some short hikes for learning about the diverse fauna and flora of the region, or even better!, if you prefer we can enjoy an adventure activity going down the Guayabero river in plastic kayaks or pneumatics for enjoy a bath at the river.
Expeditions
SAFARI AT THE ORIN DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE BIODIVERSITY
NOCO SAVANNA OF THE ORINOCO SAVANNA
6° 07´ 35.35 ´´N 71° 77´ 03.45´´ W Orinoquian Savanna
We always think that in order to see free wild animals in the nature, we must travel far away, like to Africa or deep jungle to be able to observe and learn about different types of fauna. In Colombia there is a region, vast as we cannot even imagine, deep as far as the horizon takes us and where the most incredible sunsets are hidden, where mammals and other medium and small-sized animals live at ease and roam peacefully through these immense savannas, as if we were in Africa. We can learn and enjoy see wildlife, like anteaters, capybaras, anacondas, a multitude of colorful and different birds, alligators, deer and many more animals!, while staying in comfortable ecolodges, which were part of huge cattle herds, which today refocus their efforts in the conservation of the rich nature that surrounds them.
Expeditions
MAVECURE HILLS
A MAGICAL TRIP THROUGH AMAZONIAN RIVERS
3º 27´ 51,2´´ N 67º 58´ 05,2´´ O Mavecure Hills, 800meters (2625Feet) height Inirida River, Guainia, Colombia
Although Colombia is 10 times smaller than Brazil it has nearly the same amount of plants, around 55,000 species!
The Mavecure Hills are located in one of the most remote regions of Colombia in the Guainia province. Three stunning 800 meter rocks rise above the Colombian Amazon and the majestic Inírida River, and are part of the Escudo Guayanés, one of the oldest geological formations of the planet present in the north-eastern part of the Amazon. This is a magical excursion through the most beautiful rivers of the Amazon, where visitors will have the chance to sleep by the Mavecure Hills, climb to one of the summits, bathe in the Jungle Rivers, meet the indigenous communities and observe the biological and cultural diversity of this beautiful and wild territory.
MOUNTAINEERING 4º 71´ 67,68´´ N 75º 30´ 58,94´´ O Tolima Snowed Peak Summit
Come and conquer the highest peaks of the northern part of South America, with Mountaineering, specially designed for the most daring adventurers. Mountaineering is the perfect experience for those who enjoy hiking and climbing as their way of discovering the world below them with the incredible sensation of step by step, absorbing what the beautiful and rugged landscapes have to tell you. Challenge yourself to conquer and enjoy mountains with a height of 5000mts (16,400 ft) where you will encounter endless changing landscapes along the trails, from tropical jungles to perpetual glaciers, the owners of the last snowed peaks in the northern part of South America.
4º 75º
39´ 19´
25,1´´ N 46,8´´ O
Tolima Snowed Peak 5220 meters (17126 Feet) Height, Tolima Colombia
Mountaineering
SNOWED TOLIMA PEAK SUMMIT
AND THE HOT SPRINGS
Cocora Valley trail
Sunset at basecamp
Primavera Basecamp
View of the Tolima Snowed Peak at Dawn
Glacier on the Way to the summit Los Nevados National Park is located in the central mountain range of the Colombian Andes, between the Caldas, Risaralda, Quindío and Tolima departments. Within the park boundaries one can find three snow-covered volcanoes (Ruiz, Santa Isabel and Tolima), large expanses of paramo forests, lakes and streams, where a diverse array of animal and plant species coexist. The park spans an area of 583 km2 (225 sq mi), with a maximum altitude of 5,321 meters (1,053 feet) above the sea level at the top of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, and a minimum altitude of 2,600 meters (8,530 feet).
Colombia has more than 60 different Frailejones trees, unique at the Paramo ecosystem. Frailejones trees grows one centimeter each year, and in some cases only 1 centimeter each 10 years, exist specimens of 10 meters height.
The following excursion is a beautiful hiking trip through the Central Mountain Range of the Colombian Andes. It starts on its western side at the Cocora Valley and ends in the city of Ibagué, on the eastern side. The trip ascends through the cloud forests, the moor, and the barren and sandy zones until reaching the Nevado del Tolima summit (5.240 m). Afterwards, we will visit Termales de Cañón (hot springs) before descending through colonial stone trails until Ibagué.
TREKS
4º 40´ 04,6´´ N 75º 23´ 03,7´´ O Trail at Los Nevados National Park, Colombia
Come and meet amazing places through our Treks. We want to you to GO EXPLORE destinations out of the typical commercial package, and truly see the awe inspiring natural beauty of Colombia! These routes on foot awaken your curiosity as an adventurer, and will make you want to continue further. Step by step you will discover on these trails the secrets of the most exuberant mountains. We have designed different types of Treks for you according to your personal experience, physical level and the difficulty of the terrain. We have Treks for thrill seekers of all skill levels ranging from short 2 hour routes all the way to 5 days Treks exploring through the jungles and mountains. Just make your choice!
6º 72º
29´ 17´
39,8´´ N 49,2´´ O
Ritacuba Blanco Snowed Peak 5330mts ( 17550fts) Cocuy National Park, Colombia
Treks
COCUY
AND ITS MAJESTIC GEOGRAPHY
Colombia has the tallest mountain in the world with respect to its location at sea level, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Campanilla Blanco Summit view
A day at a summit
Sunset at the mountain
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Devil´s Pulpit View
El Cocuy National Park is located in the western mountain range of the Colombian Andes, between the Boyacá, Arauca and Casanare departments. El Cocuy’s majestic geography offers snowy mountains, paramos, jungles, valleys, lakes and streams. Within the park exists a vast array of animal and plants species. The park spans an area of 3,060 km2 (1,180 sq mi), with a maximum altitude of 5,330 meters (17,487 feet) above the sea level at the top of the Ritacuba Blanco peak, and a minimum altitude of 2,700 meters (8,858 feet) at the forested areas of the Andean foothills. This excursion follows a splendid route through some of the most emblematic locations at El Cocuy, including an ascent of the Pan de Azúcar peak.
Camp in paramo area at 3900 meters (12796Feet) height
Treks
SANTA ISABEL
AND LOS NEVADOS NATIONAL PARK
4º 75º
46´ 24´
30,3´´ N 48,1´´ O
Otun Lagoon, Los Nevados National Park - Colombia
View on the way to the summit
Paramo Landscape at 3200 meters Early in the morning at the Otun (10500Feet) height
Paramo is a unique ecosystem that only exists near the terrestrial equator line countries, and Colombia has more than the 60% of the existing Paramos in the world.
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Landscape at 3500 meters n Lagoon Frailejon (11500Feet) height
ndscape at 4300 meters (14108Feet) Height
Los Nevados National Park is located in the central mountain range of the Colombian Andes, between the Caldas, Risaralda, Quindío and Tolima departments (states). Within the park boundaries one can find three snow-covered volcanoes (Ruiz, Santa Isabel and Tolima), large expanses of paramo forests, lakes and streams, where a diverse array of animal and plant species coexist. The park spans an area of 583 km2 (225 sq mi), with a maximum altitude of 5,321 meters (1,053 feet) above the sea level at the top of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, and a minimum altitude of 2,600 meters (8,530 feet). This excursion is a beautiful three-day trek that includes a summit attempt to the snowed peak Santa Isabel. The trail crosses the paramos that surround the snow covered peaks and the campsite is situated by the shore of the majestic Otún Lagoon.
4º 75º
40´ 18´
36,2´´ N 23,4´´ O
Sunset at Cañon Hot Springs, Los Nevados National Park, Colombia
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THE HOT SPRINGS
AND A MAGIC CROSSING
Trail view of the Tolima Snowed Peak on the way to the Hot Springs
Primavera Basecamp
Flowered Frailejon
Cañon Hot Springs
Colombia maintains the second largest diversity of bird species in the world
Los Nevados National Park is located in the central mountain range of the Colombian Andes, between Caldas, Risaralda, Quindío and Tolima departments. Within the park boundaries one can find three snow-covered volcanoes (Ruiz, Santa Isabel and Tolima), large expanses of paramo), forests, lakes and streams, where a diverse array of animal and plant species coexist. The park spans an area of 583 km2 (225 sq mi), with a maximum altitude of 5,321 meters (1,053 feet) above the sea level at the top of the snowed volcano of El Ruiz, and a minimum altitude of 2,600 meters (8,530 feet). This excursion is a magical four-day trek that starts at the Cocora Valley, crosses cloud forests, climbs up to the paramo, skirts the Nevado del Tolima volcano, reaches Cañón hot springs, and finishes back at the Cocora Valley through a different route.
Cocora Valley
75º 5º
8´ 27,94´´ W 55´ 55,41´´ N
Melcocho river, Antioquia - Colombia
Trekking
SECRET JUNGLES OF THE EAST OF ATIOQUIA
ENTER INTO ONE OF THE LAST UNEXPLORED NATURE REFUGES OF ANTIOQUIA
Morro Gacho, Antioquia, Colombia
Roads in the jungle
Melcocho’s river canyon
Camino de Murringo
The biodiversity in Colombia is equal to 20% of the entire world.
Are you one of those how usually believe that for experiencing the jungle has to travel to The Amazon? This adventure wants to invite you to break down that stereotype! Dare yourself to explore the incredible jungles of the east of Antioquia, between the towns of: San Francisco, El Carmen, Sonsón and Argelia. Taking the road that from Medellin takes us to Bogota, and just 2 hours and a half from the first we find San Francisco, a small and simple peasant’s town nestled in the jungle mountains of the east of Antioquia, which will serve us as entrance to the deepest secrets that this vast forest hides inside its well preserved area of at least 30 to 40 square kilometres of pure tropical jungle, without roads, any type of towns or extensive crops, only connected by ancient trails into the mountains and crossed by pristine water rivers, that just until ten years ago was not possible to visit because it was one of the strongholds of FARC in Antioquia, and that today thanks to the disappearance of this group in the area and the humanitarian demining task that the government, the army and some international NGOs has done over the past 5 years, today we can enjoy its wildlife as well as its geography.
Waterfalls in the jungle
Trekking
THE LOST CITY TREK TEYUNA EXPEDITION
11º 73º
03´ 72.9´´ N 92´ 51.9´´ W
Teyuna the Lost City
This is a 4 days trekking tour that takes us to a ¡unique place!, preserved, hidden, protected and magical. The lost City Trek. Teyuna, as is originally named by the indigenous people of the area. This is an archeological site, from an ancient settlement of the Tayrona people, the ones from whom the indigenous people from these area todays descends from Wiwa, Kogui, Arhuaco and Kamkuamo, are the main tribes that lives today at the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. This Sierra is the highest mountain on earth a side of the sea, that goes from 0 meters to more that 5500meters ¡above the sea level! (15000ft approx). Covered with a massive amount of species and forests of all kinds is a sanctuary for the nature, biodiversity and these indigenous communities are today the keepers of this delicate treasure, the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta.
WHEN CHOOSING US… Y A genuine and unique opportunity as we are working with locals, which is the best way to see a new place as they share their world with you.
Quality, as our trips are designed for you to live the best experience possible at a fair price.
Reliability we will never cancel your trip due to a minimum size travel group.
Colombia and its experiences first hand enjoying life on the road.
Amusement, our new way to travel is different, alternative and more realistic. You will get to know one of the “best and new destinations” according to Lonely Planet.
Friendship, with others who want to join you in this experience.
YOU WILL EXPERIENCE Comfort and adventure, you always will have enough comfort to enjoy every new experience with energy.
Relaxation, release yourself from the load of fixing every logistical detail of going to a new place. Just enjoy every experience that we help you to discover.
Surprises, we love to take care of you and plan the best interactive vacations for you, let us surprise you!
Creativity, our greatest purpose is to please you and we work every day to be creative and bring you a new adventures.
Like at you are at home, because your EXPLORER LEADER, more than being your guide, wants to be a solid companion on your trip. Hospitality is just amazing in the local communities that we visit, which is why we want to help them by supporting their local economy, encourage their leaders, and help their communities become developing agents.
3º 70º
45´ 52,6´´ S 22´ 58,8´´ O
Indigenous Maloca, Amazonian Jungle, Colombia
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