13 days/12 nights
Duration
Between 25°C and 35°C
Temperature
The best beaches in the country
Strong points
All year round
Dates
BOGOTA – PROVIDENCIA – CARTAGENA – SANTA MARTA – PARC TAYRONA
Relax on the heavenly white sand beaches with a turquoise sea and coconut palms as far as the eye can see! Eat fresh seafood of the day and sip a tropical cocktail while tanning. We have the idea of the perfect stay for you!
The Paradise Beaches tour is a travel idea and is fully customizable. It is ideal for those who want to rest and tan. We are true Colombian travel experts in our country and we will create an exceptional experience for you.
Contact us for any modification or question about the stay! We would be very happy to discuss this with you.
The highlights of the Paradise Beaches circuit
Emerald tower, they are typically Colombian
Visit of the incredible Providencia Island
Boat day with fishing and tour around the island and its surroundings
Stroll in the real Cartagena
Sleep in 4* and 5* hotels
Sharing with the community of Rosario Islanders (activity in association with a local NGO)
Exchange and sharing with the Kogi indigenous people in Tayrona Park
Stages of the trip
Day 1: Departure for Colombia
Day 2: Visit of the historical centre of Bogotá and its graffiti and lunch typical of the region
Day 3: Departure to the volcanic islands of Providence
Day 4: Boat trip around the islands, fishing and snorkeling in the coral reef
Day 5: Free day or motorcycle to explore the main island
Day 6: Arrival in Cartagena de Indias
Day 7: Free day in Cartagena
Day 8: Visit the first free slave village in the Americas
Day 9: Transfer to Tayrona Natural National Park
Day 10: Day of exchange and sharing with the Kogi indigenous people
Day 11: Free day to explore hidden beaches
Day 12: Discover the city centre of Santa Marta, a colonial city
Day 13: Return to Bogotá to take the flight to France
Map
The Paradise Beaches tour is a travel idea and is fully customizable.
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Day 1: Departure for Colombia
The D-Day has finally arrived. Departure from France to Colombia.
- Arrival in Colombia
- Reception at the airport and transfer to your hotel
- Night in Bogotá
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Day 2: Bogotá, 2,600 meters closer to the stars
Start your experience in Colombia by visiting the capital, Bogotá, and discovering its urban art. Finish the day in style with the atypical Colombian emerald market.
- After breakfast, visit the historic district of La Candelaria
- Stroll through the colourful streets filled with graffiti.
- These graffiti express different types of views about Colombia’s politics, economy, cultural and social situation
- Your guide, an artist who is the author of the graffiti himself or a person active in the organization of urban art events, will explain all the implications and history of each of the works you will see.
- Possibility to taste the typical Bogotá dish, el Ajiaco. It is a soup made from 3 different types of potatoes, corn, chicken and guasca, an aromatic herb, accompanied by sour cream, capers, rice and avocado
- In the afternoon, continuation of the discovery of the city by a walk on Jimenez Avenue, the rue des émeraudes. This is not a trick to buy emeralds but rather to get to know the informality of some of the country’s professions.
- Emerald is a typically Colombian gemstone, 37% of the world’s emeralds are produced in Colombia.
- Traders are waiting in the street for gemstone buyers in complete safety. It is a fascinating cultural exchange.
- Night in Bogotá
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Day 3: In the middle of the Caribbean Sea
Head to one of the jewels of the Caribbean Sea, the superb volcanic islands of Providence
- After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight Bogotá – San Andres – Providencia
- Welcome on the main island and arrival at your hotel
- Two hotel options:
- Deep Blue Hotel, located by the sea and considered the best on the island
- Yellow home, a charming house to feel at home in the forest and 15min walk from the sea
- Night at the hotel
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Day 4: The sea and you
The Providence Islands are two volcanic islands located in the Caribbean Sea.
- After breakfast, take the boat with your captain for the day
- Discover the main island, then the smallest island of Santa Catalina aboard a chartered boat just for you
- Explore the surroundings of the island and catch your own fish and enjoy it for lunch.
- If you can’t do it, it doesn’t matter, your captain will do it for you!
- Snorkel and marvel at the region’s underwater richness
- Visit the nearby islets
- Enjoy the sunset before returning to the hotel
- Night at the hotel
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Day 5: Rest in paradise
Free day to rest on this corner of paradise
- Breakfast
- Possibility to explore this small mountainous island by motorcycle or to rest at your hotel
- Night at the hotel
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Day 6: The Pearl of the Caribbean
You leave this paradisiacal island of the Caribbean to discover their pearl, its most beautiful jewel: Cartagena de Indias
- After breakfast, transfer by plane to the island of San Andrés and then Cartagena
- Transfer to your hotel within the walled city
- Overnight at the hotel, a magnificent colonial house
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Day 7: Free day in Cartagena
Cartagena de Indias is a beautiful city in the Caribbean. Filled with historic buildings and anecdotes of all kinds, the city will not leave you indifferent
- Free day
- Possibility of a guided tour of the fortified city
- Overnight at the hotel, a magnificent colonial house
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Day 8: The first free slave village
Cartagena de Indias had a key role in the administration of the Spanish empire as well as in the slave trade. The latter, no longer accepting their condition, fled in the 17th century.
- After breakfast, departure for the city of Palenque, an hour and a half from Cartagena
- Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2005, the city was founded by Benkos Bioho.
- The founder was the governor’s slave and fled after getting his master’s wife pregnant.
- Visit of the village with your guide, a resident of the city.
- Discover the lifestyle of the Palenqueros and their fascinating history
- Taste the delicious desserts made with coconut, pineapple, dulce de leche,
- Return to Cartagena at the end of the day
- Overnight at the hotel, a magnificent colonial house
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Day 9: Tayrona Natural National Park
Tayrona Park is a nature reserve with hundreds of endemic animal species and more than 30km2 of maritime area and wild and magnificent beaches
- After breakfast, departure for Tayrona Park
- Reception in your hotel located within the Park boundary
- Free afternoon to explore the surroundings
- Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians live among the park’s inhabitants.
- Overnight in a beautiful hotel
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Day 10: The Kogi natives
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is the highest coastal massif in the world with a peak of 5,775 meters only 42km from the sea. Among its inhabitants, you will meet the Kogi again.
- After breakfast, you will meet the Kogi, an Amerindian tribe living in the park’s mid-mountain reserves.
- Exchanges with them, with their way of understanding nature and life
- Stroll in the Tayronaka reserve and descent by buoy by the Don Diego river to the sea
- Bird and howler monkey watching
- Overnight in a magnificent hotel within the limit of Tayrona Park
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Day 11: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Tayrona Park is home to dozens of white sandy beaches with crystal clear seas, accessible by foot or by boat
- Breakfast and then take advantage of this free day to visit the interior of Tayrona Park, other beaches, the village of Minca or rest
- At the end of the day, transfer to the city of Santa Marta
- Night in Santa Marta in a beautiful colonial house
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Day 12: The First City of the Americas
Santa Marta, the first city built by the Spanish in South America, was founded on July 29, 1525. Its historical and cultural buildings, as well as its proximity to wonderful beaches, have made this city one of the country’s main ecotourism destinations.
- After breakfast, discover the city by walking through its narrow streets full of history.
- Visit the bay of the same name and the sculpture of Pibe Valderrama, Colombia’s most famous football player. He has an impressive blonde-afro hair?
- Night in Santa Marta in a beautiful colonial house
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Day 13: Return to France
After breakfast, transfer to the airport to catch your flight back to France
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