Top 10 Historical & Heritage Tours in Santa Marta Municipality, Magdalena Department

Carlos Vives guides you through his home city. Discover the history and stories of Santa Marta with Carlos. In this unique soundwalk you will set off in the pursuit of the pearl, and we are going after the pearl!

Inclusions: All chapters and maps offline and tips to explore Santa Marta

Exclusions: Snacks, Smartphone and headsets

With your personal guide and driver, you will explore Santa Marta with this 4-hour city tour precisely designed for cruise ship passengers. Get to know the top highlights of Santa Marta and fall in love with this gorgeous city. Its ancient streets and colonial architecture still prevail, even after having being sacked and burned dozens of times by pirates. Santa Marta is also known for being the place where Simon Bolivar (El Libertador) lived his latter days. Get to know his history, what he did and how he managed to liberate six Latin-American countries from the Spanish empire.

Inclusions: One bottled water per person, Air-conditioned vehicle, Private transportation, Professional English-speaking guide

Exclusions: Food (breakfast, lunch or dinner), Gratuities

I recently moved to Santa Marta with my wife where we can enjoy the beautiful Sierra Nevada and what it has to offer. Going up the sierra nevada to minca to this antique coffee farm in the middle of the jungle is an amazing experience as well as visiting the local beer brewery at the farm whose secret is the water from the Sierra Mountain. LOCALS DO IT BETTER

Inclusions: All Fees and Taxes, Snacks, Coffee and/or Tea, Alcoholic Beverages, Air-conditioned vehicle

Exclusions: Lunch

Most visitors to Minca are offered the same few experiences: birds, waterfalls and hammocks. This is the ONLY place in the region that tells its story. Here, you can connect directly with the local community, hear their stories, and understand what Minca and Colombia are the way the are today.

Inclusions: Coffee and/or Tea

Exclusions:

Ciudad Perdida (Lost City) is the archaeological territory of an ancient Tayrona city located in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta whose construction is attributed to the year 800 A.D. many years before Machu Picchu. The Tayrona paradise is made up of a series of terraces dug into the mountainside formed by a network of tiled roads and small circular squares. Get to Ciudad Perdida is done by climbing some 1200 stone steps through the vast jungle of the region, an adventure that begins in the city of Santa Marta and forces you to cross kilometers of mountain between rivers and jungle, an unforgettable experience that will allow you to meet the natives of the area, have an experience amid nature and live an extreme journey between the mountain and the sea.

Inclusions: Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch, Lunch, Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Contribution to native communities, peasant communities and ICANH , Travel Insurance

Exclusions: Breakfast on the first day., Mules to carry luggage., Services not specified in the plan

At 200 meters above sea level inside the Tayrona Park is located Pueblito, a community of native Koguis, heirs of the Tayrona with an architecture similar to that of Ciudad Perdida. It is interesting to know a little more about the native culture of Santa Marta. The tour: Pueblito Tayku is ideal to live an adventure of cultural discovery of the region. To reach this ancestral territory, you must take a walk in the middle of the jungle of the Tayrona Park, a route where the visitor will be able to appreciate the natural wonders and thus be closer to the beloved mother earth.

Inclusions: Private transportation, Medical Insurance, Professional Guide (Spanish Language)., Tradicional, Meat, chicken or pasta; drink included., Entrance Fee (Tayrona), All Fees and Taxes

Exclusions: Lunch does not include seafood, Snacks

Santa Marta was once called The Pearl of America by the Spaniards. Nowadays it deserves its name for being a natural and historical treasure for Colombia. If you want to know more and learn why join us in this private full-day tour around its most emblematic places. Visit the historical center and the Tayrona Gold Museum, and then, the Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, death place of Simón Bolivar, and finish the tour by visiting one of its most famous bays: Taganga. • Historical landmarks of Santa Marta city • A walk along the old city and a guided tour in the Tayrona Gold Museum • A trip to Taganga’s Bay, one of the most important in Santa Marta • A visit and guided tour inside Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, Simon Bolivar’s death place • Unforgettable memories of the oldest city of the country.

Inclusions: Gran Colombia Tours Guide, Hotel pick-up and drop-off, All Risk Insurance

Exclusions: Lunch

Ciudad Perdida (Lost City) is the archaeological territory of an ancient Tayrona city located in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta whose construction is attributed to the year 800 A.D. many years before Machu Picchu. The Tayrona paradise is made up of a series of terraces dug into the mountainside formed by a network of tiled roads and small circular squares. Get to Ciudad Perdida is done by climbing some 1200 stone steps through the vast jungle of the region, an adventure that begins in the city of Santa Marta and forces you to cross kilometers of mountain between rivers and jungle, an unforgettable experience that will allow you to meet the natives of the area, have an experience amid nature and live an extreme journey between the mountain and the sea.

Inclusions: Contribution to native communities, peasant communities and ICANH , Breakfast, Lunch, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch, Travel Insurance

Exclusions: Breakfast on the first day., Mules to carry luggage., Services not specified in the plan

We make our better work to give an excellent service. With a qualified people and good attention before, during and after the service. We are recogniced in tripadvisor with good feedback

Inclusions: Private transportation, Souvenir, All Fees and Taxes, Snacks, Bottled water

Exclusions: Alcoholic Beverages, Use of bicycle, Lunch

Enjoy Santa Marta, a city privileged to have the highest coastal mountain in the world, this majestic mountain range with its snowy cusps is the historical and cultural epicenter of the most important civilizations in history, joining in a magical tourist destination, the wisdom of the nature and the customs of an indigenous population. Also, Santa Marta too is one of the oldest cities in America so you can see in its historical legacy, represented in the architecture and streets of the historic center.

Inclusions: , Professional guide, Hotel/port pickup and drop-off

Exclusions: Gratuities