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Tayrona National Park Tour: Eco-Adventure in Wildlife from Cartagena
Embark on an eco-adventure in Tayrona National Park from Cartagena. Explore the wildlife, encounter Kogui Indians, and discover the beauty of Cabo San Juan de Guía beach.
Embark on an eco-adventure in Tayrona National Park from Cartagena. Explore the wildlife, encounter Kogui Indians, and discover the beauty of Cabo San Juan de Guía beach.
Duration:
18 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Cabo San Juan del Guia - Pick up starts at 4am in Bocagrande, Castillo Grande, Laguito, Historic Center, Gethsemane, Marbella and North Zone; We head towards the city of Santa Marta, passing through the city of Barranquilla panoramicly. Upon reaching the main entrance of Tayrona Park, we will receive a 5-minute talk explaining how the behavior of…
- Cabo San Juan del Guia - Pick up starts at 4am in Bocagrande, Castillo Grande, Laguito, Historic Center, Gethsemane, Marbella and North Zone; We head towards the city of Santa Marta, passing through the city of Barranquilla panoramicly. Upon reaching the main entrance of Tayrona Park, we will receive a 5-minute talk explaining how the behavior of visitors should be for the care of the environment of this beautiful nature reserve. Within the park we will walk for two (2) hours, along a humid and tropical wooded path, finding the wonderful beaches of: Arrecifes, Arenilla, and La Piscina until we reach CABO SAN JUAN DEL GUIA. For the tour we included a bottle of water. In Cabo San Juan, in addition to enjoying the wonderful beaches, we will have lunch with a choice of fish, meat, chicken or vegetarian. At approximately 3pm, we will walk back to the entrance of the Park, we will travel by bus passing through Santa Marta and Barranquilla; We will return to the city of Cartagena at approximately 10pm, leaving passengers in their hotels.
What's Included
- Return to the hotel
- Tickets to Tayrona Park
- Hydration Point: coconut water
- Typical lunch
- Pickup in the hotel with Air-conditioned vehicle
- Return to the hotel
- Tickets to Tayrona Park
- Hydration Point: coconut water
- Typical lunch
- Pickup in the hotel with Air-conditioned vehicle
What's Not Included
- The price does not include diving with snorkel
- Unspecified expenses
- Alcoholic beverages
- Breakfast
- The price does not include diving with snorkel
- Unspecified expenses
- Alcoholic beverages
- Breakfast
Additional Information
Experience an ecological journey in Tayrona Park, home to diverse wildlife, without contributing to pollution.
Explore the awe-inspiring variety of aquatic life and fish species. Interact with Kogui Indians, local inhabitants of the region.
Embrace the opportunity to stroll along humid, forested pathways observing nature’s creatures in their natural…
Experience an ecological journey in Tayrona Park, home to diverse wildlife, without contributing to pollution.
Explore the awe-inspiring variety of aquatic life and fish species. Interact with Kogui Indians, local inhabitants of the region.
Embrace the opportunity to stroll along humid, forested pathways observing nature’s creatures in their natural habitat.
Experience the culture by exploring and acquiring indigenous crafted items.
Frequented by local and international travelers, Cabo San Juan de Guía is renowned as one of Tayrona Natural Park’s most stunning and exotic beaches. Its expansive white sands and serene sea offer a unique setting where you can relish the site’s captivating beauty.
- Not recommended for children under 14
- Not recommended for people over 65
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
3.8
(11 Ratings)
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Louisasophie_d
Apr 1, 2025
Very nice day! - While being a quite long tour with a long car ride to the park and back, it was an awesome day. We hiked through amazing nature, saw multiple beaches, got to swim at Cabo San Juan and enjoyed a delicious lunch. For the way back to the bus, we were given the option to ride on horses for an upcharge, which we did and which added to our experience. The hike was quite fast paced and a bit challenging, which can be attributed to the heat, but definitely doable for moderately fit people. We would recommend this tour to people who don’t have a lot of time in Colombia and don’t want to spend a night or two to visit Tayrona National Park, but still want to see it.
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Katja_r
Dec 12, 2024
A fantastic tour to an... - A fantastic tour to an incredibly beautiful national park! I was picked up from the hotel with a big bus bringing people from Cartagena to different activities, a few of us then transferred into a minibus which got us into the park. The hike is definitely fatiguing, especially due to the heat and humidity. With the short amount of time for a day trip including the long drive from and to Cartagena, the local guide (who was super friendly and very knowledgeable about the park after more than 30 years of working there and pointed out interesting things to us on the way) walked very fast, which contributed to that. We hiked for about 1h45-2h to get to Cabo San Juan, had about an hour there for swimming and taking in the gorgeous views, then walked back a bit to get a delicious lunch (multiple options available, including fish, pasta with vegetables, a dish with chicken etc) - the fish was amazing! - and then had the option of either hiking back or taking a horse together with a small group and a guide. Due to the heat, I did the latter and even as a horse riding novice, it was a very safe way back even though the horses were going through quite uneven terrain which they clearly knew very well though. We were then brought back to the big bus and returned to Cartagena.
I enjoyed the trip immensely which is why I give it 5 stars but I have to point out that I booked an English speaking tour and while the tour guide in the big bus spoke English, the local guide in the park where the tour actually happened (and the horse guide) did not. Fortunately, I speak Spanish well enough to be able to communicate but if I did not, this hike would have been a lot more complicated and adventurous, and maybe even a bit risky if something had gone wrong (it did not, everything was very well organised).
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Claudia_d
Dec 27, 2023
Tour was great, bus ride... - Tour was great, bus ride very comfortable. The hike is serious in the sense that speed was quite fast but we had great time.
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Taniaandread
Aug 17, 2022
Exhaustingly marvelous - Wonderful tour, walking among the Caribbean rainforest and reaching a beautiful beach is well worth it. You have to walk a lot and there is a lot of heat, so you have to bring hydration and sunscreen, but the arrival at the beach (the pool I was, it is bigger than Cabo San Juan) is exquisite. Very honorable mention to the guide, always very patient, attentive and friendly Misael. Only the topic of drinking coconut water and seeing the crafts remained outstanding, which for time (everything is scheduled) could not be done. Howling monkeys and cappuccinos could be seen. I'd definitely do it again.
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Octavio_v
Jan 5, 2022
Hike is life - Perfect tour! Both guides were excellent! Alfonso and Jose are amazing! They compliment each other so well!
The food was excellent, highly recommend the fish! This is more of a hike rather than a beach tour! If you want to chill at the beach all day find another tour! But for those that love nature and life please book this tour!
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Rowena_j
Sep 13, 2023
a loooong day but def worth it - So you're in Cartagena, you don't want to pay the extra for staying a night or two in Santa Marta, and deal with the hassle of organizing your Tayrona Park entry. You don't want to spend hours and hours laying on a beach because that's boring. Instead, you want to see a variety of what the park has to offer. What's a girl to do? This tour! Keep in mind it's a looooong day and the van isn't *all* that comfortable. But you get to hike (~ 15km total, about 7+ each way), you see forest life, 5 beaches, and spend just the right amount of time (~1hr) at the final beach. Lunch was delicious. It's in Spanish but they'll try a few words of English if you really need it. The hiking guide will hustle you along the hike and it's **sweaty**. Def a highlight of my several months in Colombia.
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Jin_l
Jan 29, 2022
Bus tour - This is a quick way to see Tayrona, hike it for several hours, and visit the Cabo for an hour. Most of the time is spent on bus transportation. There is no coconut water break as advertised.
Also, there was no English guide as mentioned on the site. I recommend contacting the agency and speaking to a live person in Spanish to ensure pick up. I had to scramble around 4:30 am because they forgot to pick me up.
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Rmnfa
Nov 8, 2022
Disappointing - My experience:
The guide on the bus is not wired, so he speaks only to those in the front row.
-Barranquilla we saw it pass in the distance, we did not panoramic or enter the city.
- In arriving in Tayrona, we had a guide who walked very fast, without waiting for anyone as if he were just going for the goal of reaching the beach, without enjoying the nature landscape offered by the park. That I envy seeing other guides with other tours than if they were calmer and told them details along the way. I lost the guide and had to go alone in a nature park without directions. The tour says that they take you St. John, we were taken to another beach before this, I don't know why since St. John was very close they didn't take us. And St. John seeing the pictures is a thousand times prettier than we were.
the natural coconut water served by members of the Kogui Indians, nothing, we didn't.
- on the way back, according to the program, we should have visited Rodadero, the most important tourist epicenter of Santa Marta. Nothing, it was decided to return directly to Cartagena. Also the guide mentioned that Rodadero was only one for technical, when I was sold that he stopped to visit.
I honestly chose this tour to visit Barranquilla santa marta and Tayrona. It didn't. I wanted to see the cities and enjoy the park better.
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Irucc
Oct 8, 2022
Awful. - Lousy. Worse impossible.
We booked a Civitatis tour from Spain, to go to Tayrona a month in advance, for today.
Last night a person, Nicolas, from JetSet wrote to me saying that at 4.30am we would be picked up at the hotel and that a guide would contact me before that time. Waiting at the door of the hotel, no one has come to pick us up, nor has anyone written to us.Contact the JetSet person again and I am passed the contact of Carlos de Samaria tours, responsible for organizing it. He replies that the message from JetSet, he received it late, that he was already asleep at that time and could not include us in the list, so they were not coming to pick us up and the tour was already leaving. And it's so quiet.
We stood up at 4.30 in the morning, no tour.
Shame on you.
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