After your driver and English-speaking guide will pick you up from the airport you will be making you way through the Chicamocha canyon to Barichara. You will stop at the Chicamocha Park, which houses a museum of the pre-Columbian indigenous Guane who inhabited the canyon. In the Park you will be able to enjoy a 360° view of the canyon, a remarkable landform, 227 km long and 2 km deep, making it deeper than the Grand Canyon in the United States.

Accommodation: Hotel La Nube

After breakfast, you will walk a cobblestone path, one of the most important routes during the colonial period, as its use was mandatory for trade. The path also forms part of the route designed and later built by Geo von Lengerke, a German engineer and adventurer of the 19th century. This route is part of a network of cobblestone paths, called Royal Paths, which link Bogota with the Caribbean coast. Despite the passage of time, the spirit of the trail remains intact. At the end of this hike you will find Guane, a little village with a rich archaeological history. Here you can visit a small museum which houses an important collection of aquatic fossils and a mummy of the Guanes, a curious indigenous group that inhabited the Santander Region before the colonization of the Americas.

In the afternoon, you will explore Barichara. Barichara is said to be one of Colombia’s prettiest towns, renowned as a fine example of colonial architecture and an oasis of tranquility. You can walk along the tranquil cobblestone streets admiring the adobe houses and visiting artisan workshops and handcraft stores. The most distinctive features include the cobblestone streets, the rammed-earth houses, the bahereque building style, mud tiles and stone monuments made by well-known Barichara’s artists.

Accommodation: Hotel La Nube (Breakfast)

Early in the morning, you will be picked up for your private transfer to the starting point near Villanueva from where you will start the trek. This route follows the mountains from Villanueva to Jordan, a spectacular and unique landscape with a wide variety of fauna and flora. This trail is framed by the immensity of the Chicamocha Canyon contrasting with the small size of Jordán, a 80-inhabitant village located in the depth of the canyon that seems frozen in time. Upon arrival in Jordán, you will enjoy of a fresh cooked lunch and the natural wells and river where you can take a bath.

Accommodation: hammock (Breakfast & Lunch)

Today, you will walk a colonial cobblestone road through the marvellous landscape of Jordán, the Chicamocha canyon and Los Santos plateau. The trail starts at the McCormick Bridge, which spans the Chicamocha River. This hanging bridge, built in the 19th century, was the first of its kind in Colombia, and marks the entrance to a Spanish-style colonial town. After a while the town Jordán Sube looks like a scale-model from the distance, hidden in the depths of the canyon.

Once you arrive in Los Santos, you will be picked up for your transfer to the airport in Bucaramanga.

Accommodation: none (Breakfast)

Your driver and guide will pick you up in Bogota and take you on a 7 hour drive to Barichara. Along the way you will pass by different regions and landscapes and will learn more about Colombia, its history and culture.

Accommodation: Mision Santa Barbara

After breakfast, you will embark on a unique experience and follow your guide down a cave. You will get wet and visit underground chambers.

In the afternoon, you will learn the traditional mud painting technique from a local artist in a workshop where you will use the different colours obtained from the soil in the area such as yellow, red, brown and others.

Accommodation: Mision Santa Barbara (Breakfast)

Today you will need to bring along your sense of adventure for river rafting through the exhilarating rapids of the Suarez River. You have not really experienced Santander without doing a little whitewater rafting. The Suarez River, just an hour from San Gil, is one of the top high-volume run in the country. You get thrilling rapids and huge waves. Rafters have been known to experience huge waves, depending on the weather and the water levels. In the case of wipeouts, there are pools at the end of each rapid which make this river a safe run.

You will have the afternoon free to explore Barichara or the surrounding area.

Accommodation: Mision Santa Barbara (Breakfast)

On the way to Bucaramanga, you will visit the park located in the impressive Chicamocha canyon and cross one of the deepest canyons in the world from one extreme to the other in a cable car.

Afterwards, your driver will bring you to the airport in Bucaramanga.

Accommodation: none (Breakfast)

After your pick-up at the airport and a short rest, your guide will show you around Giron. You will walk the cobblestone streets and masonry bridges, and admire the colonial architecture of Girón’s historical district, an important economic centre during the Spanish colonial era.

Accommodation: Hotel Macaregua Giron

After breakfast you will enjoy of a coffee tour and coffee tasting. You will walk the paths of El Roble Hacienda, a coffee estate with more than 100 years of tradition of producing some of the world’s finest coffee and learn about the production process of Mesa de los Santos Coffee. You will enjoy the tastes and smells of the numerous varieties during the Coffee Tasting activity before returning to Giron.

Accommodation: Hotel Macaregua Giron (Breakfast & Lunch)

Enjoy a day of activities aimed at rest, relaxation, well-being and revitalization. On arrival, you will enjoy of a welcome cocktail followed by different relaxing activities in the maloca, the private herbal jacuzzi, moonlight pool or steam house.

Accommodation: Hotel Macaregua Giron (Breakfast & Lunch)

Your driver will pick you up for your transfer to the airport.

Accommodation: none (Breakfast)