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Hidden Treasures

Hidden Treasures

Nature, history and culture circuit of 9 days and 8 nights (Bogotá, Neiva, San Agustín and Popayán)

Program

Day 1
Bogota

Reception at the airport, transfer airport – hotel in Bogotá (50 minutes), free night. Accommodation at the hotel.

Day 2
Bogota - City Tour + Zipaquira

Breakfast at the hotel, at 7:00 a.m. They are picked up at the hotel to start a tour of the main tourist places in the city, entering the Gold Museum and going up the Monserrate hill by funicular or cable car. Then we will go to a restaurant to have a typical lunch of the region and to move to one of the Colombian architectural jewels such as the Salt Cathedral. After taking a tour of the Cathedral de Sal de Zipaquirá, we return to the hotel.

Day 3
Bogota - Neiva

Breakfast at the hotel, Check out and transfer to the airport to go to Neiva. Reception at the airport and transfer to hotel. In the afternoon, departure to the town of Villa Vieja, gateway to the Desert, to visit the Paleontological Museum, and later go into cracks eroded by the effects of wind and water since time immemorial, walk along the trails of "El Cuzco", a spectacular place of special beauty. La Tatacoa offers the best scenario in Colombia to look at the cosmos, since it has the largest coverage of the celestial dome in the nation, for this reason at the beginning of the night a Astronomy workshop with planetary observation and celestial phenomena, through the modern telescopes of the ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY and with the guidance of a professional astronomer, Return to the hotel, includes: lunch, dinner, overnight accommodation.

Day 4
Neiva - San Agustin

Breakfast and check out, Transfer to San Agustín where you will be arriving at noon. Afternoon free to rest at the hotel or take a walk around San Agustín at your leisure. Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 5
San Agustín y Estrecho del Magdalena

Breakfast at the hotel, in the morning visit the Archaeological Park of San Agustín, Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO 1995), and visit the Little Tables A, B, C and D; The Lavapatas Ceremonial Fountain and the Archaeological Museum. In the afternoon tour to the Strait from the Magdalena River, the spectacular rocky gorge that forces the most important river in Colombia to pass at only 2.20 m. wide, includes: lunch, dinner and lodging.

Day 6
San Agustin – Popayan

Breakfast at the hotel and Check Out, Transfer to Popayán, through the thick forest that serves as amortization for the Puracé National Park, a brief stop is made in the "Valle de los Frailejones" to enjoy this lavish landscape and break the intense cold with a “panela water with cheese”. Tour of Popayán the "White City of Colombia" with lunch where you visit the most representative places such as: the Museum of Religious Art, Museum de la Familia Valencia, replica of the patojo town, historic center of the city, old churches such as San Francisco, Belén, San José, Plaza del Reloj, Cathedral and the Sebastián viewpoint of Belalcazar. Includes entrance to museums, lunch, dinner and hotel accommodation.

Day 7
Popayán

Breakfast and check out, Transfer to the Eje Cafetero making a stop in Cali, visit the most representative sites of the city such as the church and Mirador de San Antonio, Monument to Sebastián de Belalcázar, "El Gato del rio" Park, La Merced church, Cathedral, Plaza de Caycedo, the Government and others. Includes: Lunch and lodging.

Day 8
Visit Coffee Farm and Salento

Breakfast at the hotel, Transfer to Finca el Ocaso, an authentic sustainable specialty coffee producing farm located 15 minutes from the municipality of Salento where unforgettable experiential experiences immersed in the coffee culture are offered. The height, The climate and topography of this farm allow the development of a crop with double shade that provides all the characteristics of the incomparable fragrance and flavor of CAFÉ SOSTENIBLE OCASO. Transfer to see the natural landscape located in a mountainous valley of the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes, specifically in the department of Quindío, known as the Valle del Cocora, which is part of the Los Nevados National Natural Park. It is the main home of Colombia's national tree, the Quindío wax palm (Ceroxylon quindiuense), as well as a great variety of flora and fauna, much of it in danger of extinction, protected under the status of a natural national park. Lunch included, upon return we will visit the town typical of Salento where we will have a walking tour visiting its colonial streets, artisan workshops and the Cócora viewpoint. overnight accommodation.

Day 9
Eje Cafetero Transfer Out

Breakfast and check out, Transfer Hotel – Airport to take a flight back to your country with a stopover in Bogotá or continue with one of the suggested extensions.