THREE PEARLS OF THE CARIBBEAN
9D/8N. Daily Departures
Itinerary
DAY 1: SANTA MARTA
Reception and transfer from the airport of Santa Marta to the hotel of your choice. Overnight.
DAY 2: SANTA MARTA (City Tour)
Breakfast. Tourist tour of one of the oldest cities in South America that offers the visitor a historical and cultural legacy with colonial treasures. Its geographical location close to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta makes the surroundings of this city offer wonderful inlets of white sand and crystal-clear waters of the Caribbean Sea. During the tour you will visit the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, the Minor Basilica Cathedral, the Gold Museum, or the Customs House, in addition, within the tour you will make a stop at the monument to “Pibe Valderrama” where you will have free time to take photos, before finishing the tour there will be a panoramic visit of Taganga.
Duration 3.5 Hrs.
Includes: Transportation to and from the hotel (Historic Center area, Rodadero, wells Colorado’s and Beautiful horizon) is included, guidance and entrance to the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino.
DAY 3: SANTA MARTA (Tayrona National Park & “Playa Cristal” Tour)
Breakfast. The Tayrona National Natural Park in the Playa Cristal sector offers its visitors an inlet of white sand and crystal-clear waters, ideal for those seeking contemplation and rest, it is not necessary to walk to enjoy this wonderful place that has unique characteristics making it in a magical place where you can see beautiful coral beds ideal for snorkeling and autonomous diving. Approximate duration 10 Hrs. Includes: ground transportation, entrance to the park, stop at the viewpoint of the 7 waves, transportation by boat type bongo and guide
Blackout dates for the Tayrona National Park: February 01 -29/ June 01 – 15 and October 19 – November 02, 2022. (Every year the governmental entities of Santa Marta close the Tayrona Park for its environmental recovery.)
DAY 4: SANTA MARTA / BARRANQUILLA
Breakfast. At the agreed time, one of our representatives will pick you up to take you on a private land transfer from Santa Marta to Barranquilla. Arrival to the hotel of your choice and overnight. This service doesn´t include English-speaking guide, only driver. Duration: approximately 2 ½ Hours
DAY 5: BARRANQUILLA (Historical City Tour)
Breakfast. At the agreed time, one of our representatives will pick you up to start a city tour. You´ll visit: El Prado Neighborhood, Los Fundadores Park, House of the Carnival, Amira de la Rosa Theater, Metropolitan Cathedral, Customs Old Building, Montoya Station, Railway Plaza, and finally Museum of the Caribbean. Return to the hotel, rest of the day at leisure and overnight.
Duration 4 Hrs.
Includes: Transportation to and from the hotel, guide and admission to the Carnival Museum is included
DAY 6: BARRANQUILLA / CARTAGENA
Breakfast. At the agreed time, one of our representatives will pick you up to take you on a private land transfer from Barranquilla to Cartagena to Santa Marta. Arrival to the hotel of your choice and overnight. This service doesn´t include English-speaking guide, only driver. Duration: approximately 3 ½ Hours
DAY 7: CARTAGENA (City Tour)
Breakfast. At the agreed time, I meet one of our representatives at the hotel where you are staying to begin a panoramic tour of Cartagena de Indias. During the circuit, you will pass through the modern area of Bocagrande and the Manga neighborhood, where you can see old houses from the beginning of the 20th century. Then you will visit the Castle of San Felipe de Barajas, which the Spanish sought to defend themselves from English attacks in the seventeenth century. We continue with a short walk through the historic center of this beautiful city, the tour ends by visiting the emerald museum. The tour will end at your hotel.
Includes: Entrance to the Castillo San Felipe and the Esmeralda Museum.
Duration: approximately 3 hrs. and a half.
Departures from Monday to Friday at 14:00 hrs., Saturday, Sundays, and National holidays at 09:00 hrs.
DAY 8: CARTAGENA (Beach Tour)
Breakfast and transfer to start a full day tour to the Rosario´s Islands National Park. There you´ll enjoy coral beaches and variety of fauna of the reef, ideal for relaxing and swimming. Return to Cartagena and transfer to the hotel. Overnight.
- San Pedro de Majagua: Includes dock tax. Doesn’t include transfers hotel-dock-hotel
- Isla del Encanto: Offers free transfer hotel to dock just for hotels at Bocagrande, historic center and north zone. The transfer dock-hotel is not included. Doesn’t include dock tax. Approx. cost: USD 8.00 per person.
DAY 9: CARTAGENA Breakfast. Transfer to the airport as scheduled to take a flight to reach your destination.
** The tour could begin from Santa Marta or from Cartagena
SANTA MARTA
- Transfer airport – hotel
- 3 nights with daily breakfast
- City Tour
- Tayrona National Park and “Playa Cristal”
- Transfer by land from Santa Marta to Barranquilla
BARRANQUILLA
- 2 nights with daily breakfast
- City Tour
- Transfer by land from Barranquilla to Cartagena
CARTAGENA
- Transfers airport- hotel -airport
- 3 nights with daily breakfast
- City Tour with San felipe Fort
- Full day Tour at “Isla Del Encanto” or “San Pedro de Majagua” according to the category of hotel
- Rooms in Triple accommodation are subject of availability and usually hotels offer a bed-settee or in some cases, hotels allow this accommodation sharing 2 beds in a same room.
- Do not include Air tickets and airport taxes, Tourism Cards, Tourism or ecological taxes, Expenses and food unspecified, Colombian IVA’s Tax of 19% (See more in conditions), Hotel insurances is voluntary, if the passenger decide to pay, it must be done directly to the hotel.