Full Day Tour from Cartagena through Barranquilla and Santa Marta
Description
Our tour includes a tour of the most emblematic places of the fantastic cities of Barranquilla and Santa Marta where they will meet with a cultural diversity and learn about the importance of the sites visited, live a unique and unforgettable experience, will interact with people from all over the world and learn about the multicultural facets, people will explore wonderful and magical places.
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Itinerary
From the city of Cartagena 2 hours journey to the first point of the tour where they will stop in the letters of Barranquilla with our tour guide to take photos of memories and spend 20 minutes in this stop
We will make a stop with our tour guide where they will give an instructional talk about the foundation of the monument and the birth of Barranquilla
Here at this monument travelers will receive a talk about Colombian football and the team of Barranquilla el Junior one of the best teams in the country
In the splendid Malecón del Cayman also called Malecón del Rio our tourists will have the pleasure of enjoying the beautiful view and the diversity of restaurants of typical food of the Colombian coast, where they can take photos and learn more about the legends of this city
We will make a stop to take photos at the monument of one of the most representative singers of Colombia and the world, our Barranquillera Shakira Mebarak Ripol
It would be a 2 hour journey from the city of Barranquilla to the city of Santa Marta At the monument and/or statue of the legendary football player of the Colombia national team Carlos el Pibe Valderrama you can take photos for the memory as well as hear a brief football review about our selection. Where we'll spend approximately 20 minutes.
In the letters of Santa Marta we make a stop for taking souvenir photos
One of the most emblematic and romantic places in the city of Santa Marta, where you can not miss taking photos in the dome of the bride and groom.
Here you will hear a short historical review about the liberator Simon Bolivar
On the Pumarejo Bridge they receive a short historical review about its creation.
Free museum where archaeological objects from the Sierra nevada de Santa Marta and indigenous peoples from Magdalena are exhibited
The most important beach of Santa Marta, where the most beautiful bay in America is located, here we will take some time to enjoy sea bath and typical lunch taking where you have several options of dishes, we will have an hour and a half for this. After that we headed back to Cartagena City with a journey of approximately 4 hours
They enter the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Marta and walks around it
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Important Information
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(96)
Tour will provide a full day of sight seeing through Barranquilla and Santa Marta. For the amount of sights that are part of the tour it is amazing that it is done in one day.
We went after 18:00 on our last night, it is located at the end of the seawall and is a must and to be honest is better at night as they turn on the lights and looks more attractive. Around the monument there are small bars with screens and drinks as well as food, if you just go to the picture it does not take you more than 15 minutes, important to mention that there are no formal bathrooms, they have those portable bathrooms.
HORRIBLE explained almost nothing, we were forced to be in a hotel 2 hours waiting for some VIPs who went to a private beach... they took a long time to deliver lunch and the bus was oversold. I would not repeat this plan
The trip started later than expected, the description mentions a sandwich as breakfast but we were giving none, the tour in barranquilla is just stopping 10 minutes ish per landmark to take a picture and that's it, the tour through santa marta felt rushed, the free time in the pool at the hotel was ok, but the worst part was the bus, it was infested with cockroaches and the top compartments were dirty that all of our stuff ended up dirty and sticky, plus the cooling water( just guessing that is it) was leaking during the entire trip, which was uncomfortable, our electronics could have been damaged. TLDR; short time per landmark, the bus was dirty.
Most horrible tour experience in my life in 46 years of traveling the world!!! The driver did not know how to follow Google Maps making last minute sharp turns, braking abruptly in traffic, driving excessively and unsafely slow making it a very long 17.5 hour tour from 4:00am to 9:30pm not even following simple directions from the tour guide. Passed vehicles in the roads when passing was prohibited very slowly almost wrecking about six times!!! The tour guide was unorganized, did not give explanations at sites of beforehand, did not set time limits making it a horrible experience not respecting everyone’s time with making us wait for rude people tourists that would take a very long time in pickups at hotels and in resting stops. Horrible food that made me ill, vomit, diarrhea, fever, stomachache, headache, chills, at the beach club. Horrible beach with no loungers in beach area from the beach club, and ugly pool and facility. Did not go to two of the sightseeing places as described in Viator tour booking and did not provide the sandwich and fruit for breakfast as described, instead went to kiosk rest area in the toll road area that belonged to a family member of the tour guide and fed us a horrible egg arepa that made my stomach ache and no fruit at all. Very disappointing experience. Did not stop at monument of Aleta de Tiburon either. Gave us very few minutes at monuments. Most horrible tour ever. Nice city Barranquilla and walking tour in Santa Marta, however with local guide Mario.
This tour was very well organized and very nice. The story they told us very interesting.
Good tour, with Maria guide, good people, but some seriousness, Not sociable to be a guide, lacks joy. I think the price quite high for the tour, it does not go price-quality ratio. It was fine but not excellent. Something very important is that the bus had cockroaches, it would be good to be fumigated because they are inside the walls, and it does not look good, for those of us who have a phobia can no longer go quietly as soon as we see the antennae moving.
The experience was awesome and very in depth and learned a lot. The tour guide was amazing he helped me get around cause my back was hurting and made sure I was comfortable and was there for anything I needed he really has feelings and cares for his guests.
The spots were nice and it was nice to explore new cities. The tour was completely in Spanish despite us asking for English, but thankfully we had two Spanish speakers so we had to translate. If you are looking for lots of details and explanation this is not the tour for you. Often times, I did feel rushed to take the pictures and leave, there wasn’t much explanation past a sentence or two. Still glad we got the tour just make sure you are aware of what you want before taking this tour.
Great day tour of Baranquilla and Santa Marta. Air-conditioned bus and time to swim at the beach in Santa Marta. Would recommend
