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Totumo Volcano: Unique Mud Therapy Experience
3.9
52 Ratings
Cartagena
Experience the healing power of nature at Totumo Volcano! Immerse yourself in the crater and enjoy lodotherapy with medicinal mud, beneficial for your skin and hair.
Experience the healing power of nature at Totumo Volcano! Immerse yourself in the crater and enjoy lodotherapy with medicinal mud, beneficial for your skin and hair.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Volcán de Lodo El Totumo - A bilingual assistant will meet guests in the hotel lobby and escort them to the Totumo Volcano. At our facility, guests will find lockers, bathrooms, changing rooms, and a mini bar. Enjoy a relaxing lodotherapy session before returning to the hotel.
- Manzanillo del Mar - Conclude the day with a traditional lunch at Los Pinos Beach Club, where guests can also enjoy the beach and pool.
- Volcán de Lodo El Totumo - A bilingual assistant will meet guests in the hotel lobby and escort them to the Totumo Volcano. At our facility, guests will find lockers, bathrooms, changing rooms, and a mini bar. Enjoy a relaxing lodotherapy session before returning to the hotel.
- Manzanillo del Mar - Conclude the day with a traditional lunch at Los Pinos Beach Club, where guests can also enjoy the beach and pool.
What's Included
- Mud Massage
- Entrance to the volcano
- Use of our headquarters (Showers, Lockers, Vestier)
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Sludge Removal
- Mud Massage
- Entrance to the volcano
- Use of our headquarters (Showers, Lockers, Vestier)
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Sludge Removal
Additional Information
Totumo Volcano offers a remarkable natural experience where visitors can indulge in a distinctive mud therapy session right in its crater. The volcano’s depth is about 1.2 meters, providing a unique sensation of buoyancy, as the mud’s density prevents sinking. This mud is known for its beneficial medicinal properties for both skin and hair, leaving them…
Totumo Volcano offers a remarkable natural experience where visitors can indulge in a distinctive mud therapy session right in its crater. The volcano’s depth is about 1.2 meters, providing a unique sensation of buoyancy, as the mud’s density prevents sinking. This mud is known for its beneficial medicinal properties for both skin and hair, leaving them feeling soft and rejuvenated.
Moreover, the experience is enhanced by access to an exclusive beach club situated along the seafront. This venue features comfortable lounging areas, swimming pools, social spaces, and various services, all designed to ensure a day of relaxation and comfort by the Caribbean Sea.
Location
Volcan de Lodo El Totumo
Via al Volcan del Totumo,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.9
(52 Ratings)
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Dana_k
May 12, 2025
Wonderful experience - The most important thing to know is there is no shade during this adventure. You must climb stairs to the mud pit, you will wait on these stairs and because there is no shade it is hot!! Bring your flip flops to the top and don't let them take them. The mud pit is amazing. You are literally suspended in the mud and you feel weightless. Lather this mud everywhere , it leaves your skin feeling silky smooth. Once you get out you need to decend stairs and walk to the river, this is why you need your flip flops because the pavement is hot!! The river is where the ladies will wash the mud off, be careful if you're a man, because they will take your shorts off and may even give you a little "extra wash". Once you are done, make sure everyone who touched you knows you tipped them, thr men who message you in the pit and the ladies that wash you, they all expect tips and are very persistent.
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Janessa_r
Feb 7, 2025
Mud volcano is a core memory you must make! - The time waiting is almost as fun as the time in the mud volcano. Lots of vendors to eat and drink while you wait. Line gets long bc a lot of people are traveling there. Time inside is about 15-20min but it feels GREAT. They make you wash off in a local lake/water hub after the mud volcano dip bc mud is so heavy and then you can rinse off in showers and change BRING WATER SHOES
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Tonigaye_b
Jan 19, 2025
Good - This was a nice experience to have for the first time. I wish they had a time limit to organize people in the mud but that’s not a tour guide issue. The guide does speak English and explains everything. They organized tips at the end of the excursion for the men that massages in the mud, the person who takes your photo and the person who washes you off at the lake, you can decline all extra services because they are all optional.
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Ericka_f
Dec 21, 2024
The mud tour was great!... - The mud tour was great! Our tour guide made sure to tell us all of the relevant information when we arrived, and the tour, including transportation to and from the volcano, was very well organized. Overall, it was a wonderful ecotourism experience, would recommend to anyone visiting Cartagena!
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Shaundelj
Jan 15, 2024
It was about an hr drive from my hotel, we were greeted by people of the community. The massage was absolutely heavenly! - It was an amazing experience, my tour guide Mary was super helpful regarding translating. Would definitely go back!
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Leentje_jhp
Dec 22, 2024
Nice experience, communication could be better - Nice trip, but communication could be better. We didn't know where or at what time we would be picked up until the morning itself, but once we left we had a good time:)
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Rica2018
Feb 15, 2024
Expensive mud bath - A staircase leads up to the mud pool, you take off everything except your swimming trunks/bikini and shoes. A guy takes your cell phone and takes pictures, another explains everything to you. In the pool you get a massage, the mud is warm and feels crazy. Then you are led to the lagoon and washed by women. A guy carries your shoes off. Funny experience, but in the end everyone wanted 20COP per person, the explaining guy, the photo guy, the masseur, the shoe-down-wearer, the washerwomen. That adds up to quite a lot for 15 minutes of bathing fun. We felt a bit ripped off. The mud was still a great experience.
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Gabrielle_s
Oct 4, 2025
Nice getaway and you feel reborn again - The driver and guide super! The trip there very nice, also drove as a surprise to museum and pink sea. The mud bath itself was nice. Was well cared for and arranged. The local people were less and quite verbally aggressive and were only after tips. Certainly Rita was rude.
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608vinitat
Jan 12, 2024
Do not recommend - By far the worst excursion I went on. Communication from the start was awful. They did not communicate that the trip would be cancelled if no one else booked. Once they finally arranged something, I was told pick up would be between 2-3pm. I didn't end up getting picked up until 3:30pm and we didn't end up leaving for the excursion till 3:45pm. The entire time, the tour guide was not explaining why we were waiting, when we would leave, etc. We probably exchanged 10 words with her total through the entire excursion. The ride there was 50min and the ride back was another 50min. We only stayed at the volcano for a total of 24 minutes - where during this time, there were locals trying to get us to take photos of us, massage us, or wash us off, which they all expect tip for and wait for you to finish changing before hounding you for money. This excursion had potential to be good but overall I would not recommend. You really do get what you pay for. Might be a better experience with a different tour group.
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Nandita_r
Dec 22, 2023
they cancelled on us 30... - they cancelled on us 30 minutes after they were supposed to pick us up so we didn’t even have the time to reschedule with another company. extremely poor communication from the company- they didn’t tell us what was going on until we asked.
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