Top Caribbean Coast Historical Tours - page 2

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Make your own emerald jewelry at a 3-hour class at Cartagena’s Caribe Jewelry and Emerald Museum. You’ll work with Colombian emeralds and sterling silver wire, making four projects: a ring, earrings, a pendent, and a bracelet. At the end of the class, choose one piece to take home, with the option to purchase your other projects at the cost of materials. This 3-hour Cartagena jewelry-making class includes pickup and drop-off in the city, with both morning and afternoon classes available.

Leave the selfie stick at home and commemorate your Cartagena adventure in high definition during a private photo shoot. This personalized experience is the perfect way to capture engagements, anniversaries, family vacations, and solo adventures. Possible historic backgrounds include Plaza Santo Domingo, the Walled City of Cartagena, Plaza de la Aduana, and Emerald Center. After the shoot, depending on the selected package, you’ll choose 20 to 40 photos to have professionally edited.

Discover the untold history of the famous Gethsemane neighborhood! This is a tour where you will go through the most emblematic streets and its representative squares of a historically resistant town, its folklore, its colors, its music and its people. Get closer to the Getsemanicence culture through our tour where you will understand the importance of a segregated and insurgent people during the colony. Today you will find a tourist neighborhood with original inhabitants, heirs of a rich culture that at first sight hides stories and legends of revolution, pride and tradition. This Tour is part of a shared experience called "Free Walking Tour" and the value you just paid through Viator is the same suggested tip per person for the guide's work. This amount that you already paid in advance will go directly to your guide (minus the commission). In this way, at the end of the Tour, the guide will not ask you for any extra contribution. We hope you have fun and learn with us!

Discover Cartagena through the eyes of a local on a private tour. This flexible half-day excursion is great for visitors who are tired of impersonal group tours. Together with your guide, you’ll see the city's cultural and historical highlights, as well as a few hidden corners not found in any guidebook. You’ll travel by private transportation to ensure you maximize every moment of your time without getting worn out.

Visit major landmarks around the city of Santa Marta and learn about its extensive history with this private guided tour. Walk through the city’s Old Town to the Tayrona Gold Museum and the site of Simon Bolivar’s death, Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino, for guided tours of both. Take a drive out of the historic center to visit the small bayside town of Taganga.

Set out on a 2-hour guided walking tour of Cartagena, Colombia's stunning seaside city. Take in the the colonial architecture of Old Town, here the stories behind buildings like the Cathedral of Cartagena and San Pedro Church, and learn about local culture along the way.

Enjoy a fascinating 4-hour exploration of Cartagena’s top attractions during this shore excursion designed with cruise ship passengers in mind. Join a local guide to check out Cartagena sights including the striking architecture in the Manga neighborhood and see the colonial San Felipe Fortress. You’ll also have shopping time at Las Bovedas, take a walking tour of the old city and learn about Colombia’s emerald industry at the Emerald Museum. This shore excursion also covers transport by air-conditioned vehicle, bottled water and entrance at the monastery and the Saint Peter Claver Church and Museum.

Travelers must take this tour and be prepared to enter the history of the Walled City, and enjoy the colonial architecture, culture, and those battles fought by slaves and Spaniards so as not to be assaulted. From the bastion we will arrive at the first fort built and we will find a view towards the new city and finally Getsemaní the oldest neighborhood in Cartagena where history, art and its colorful streets come together for the enjoyment of natives and visitors.

You will choose your bean, roast and grind it yourself for an experience of all the senses. The true masters are those who know so much that they make it seem simple, in this tour you will meet the best master of all. Learn about the process of coffee from its types, roasts and preparations as well as its significance in the history of Colombia.

Our Share city tour is the only one in Cartagena that includes a guided visit to Monastery of la Candelaria located in the highest point of the city considered a natural balcony of Cartagena"If you come to Cartagena and do not visit Monastery of la Candelaria you "can not say that you were in Cartagena" There is no better way to enjoy the history and culture of a city than accompanied by a professional and fun bilingual tour guide available to provide you with comprehensive information about the city and with the ability to answer any questions you may have while on the tour. . We will talk not only about the history of Cartagena but also about our customs including music, gastronomy, sports, politics, economy, etc. This experience included a guided visit to: San Felipe Fort and La Popa Convent

Get a thorough overview of Cartagena’s significant landmarks on a private walking tour. With a flexible itinerary, you’re free to visit the attractions that interest you and skip the ones that don’t. Possible highlights include Parque de la Marina, Museo Naval Del Caribe, Museo del Oro Zenu, and several of the city’s important plazas. Every step of the way, your guide will provide illuminating commentary on Cartagena's history and culture.

Enjoy a historical tour of the most emblematic sites of the city, avoiding long lines and learning about the wonderful history hidden in the walls and monuments of Cartagena in a dynamic and fun way. Important note: We provide this experience in private circles for your safety and comfort. Applies to individual travelers, couples or groups. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Experience the city of Cartagena through the work and life of author Gabriel Garcia Marquez on this guided tour. Discover the references found in his writings such as One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and Love in the Time of Cholera, and others. Plus, visit significant historical places related to his life, including where he studied and where his remains lie.

This is the best introductory tour to Cartagena: the Walled City and the untold history of the famous Gethsemane neighborhood! Get to know the city that was declared a Unesco world heritage site and is definitely a magical place, with legends and beauty within the old colonial stone wall Join our fun-filled walk to understand and learn about the origins of the so-called "jewel in the crown of the coast". Walk through the most emblematic streets and the representative squares of a historically resistant town. This Tour is part of a shared experience called "Free Walking Tour" and the value you just paid through Viator is the same suggested tip per person for the guide's work. This amount that you already paid in advance will go directly to your guide (minus the commission). In this way, at the end of the Tour, the guide will not ask you for any extra contribution. We hope you have fun and learn with us!

Visit the historic center of Santa Marta, then travel with your guide to discover the hidden gems of this fascinating city. See colonial architecture from the days of Spanish colonization, and learn about the city’s troubles with pirates coming in from the Caribbean Sea. Find out about local historical figure El Libertador and their essential role in liberating much of Latin America from Spanish rule.

The way in which the bicycle tour will be carried out through smooth and safe flat and uphill routes where we will make a pleasant and quiet tour where you will enjoy exercising and knowing unique places with its murals, buildings, monuments, neighborhoods, streets, unique places that it is worth knowing about Barranquilla.

Panoramic tour of the city, in which you will know why Cartagena was the economic epicenter of the Spaniards in South America, which made it the target of pirates and privateers in the Caribbean that in turn caused the most heroic and fearsome Naval battles of the continent, and therefore this city was walled and fortified with the largest defense system in the Caribbean. You will visit the Convent of the stern founded and built from 1606-1611, which is located on a mountain at 140mts altitude and where the patron virgin of the city (Virgen de la Candelaria) is located, and then reach the largest fortification of the Caribbean The Fort of San Felipe de Barajas, which witnessed and executioner in the most epic naval battle of the Caribbean in 1741 against Admiral Vernon, and finally will make a journey of approximately two hours walking in the old city visiting its squares, churches and monuments being part of this magnificent city (Not for cruises).

San Basilio de Palenque is a unique cultural space. For more than 400 years, this community has managed to preserve its ancestral customs. This one day tour from Cartagena will be an ideal experience for those who want to visit and understand one of the most important historical towns in Colombia in a truly unique and unforgettable way, it will be so natural that you will feel part of it.

Immerse yourself in the captivating history and Caribbean flair of Cartagena on a 3-hour historical tour of the city. Visit all of Cartagena’s significant sites and UNESCO World Heritage-listed structures accompanied by a knowledgeable guide; absorb the sacred ambiance of San Pedro Claver Church; and gain insight in to the colorful culture of the Colombian area.

Explore Colombia beyond the city of Cartagena with this full-day tour to the village of San Basilio de Palenque. Learn about the village’s music, language, and traditions during a guided visit. Discover local food with a traditional lunch and listen to music students perform. Hotel pick-up and drop-off are included.

Let a three-time Grammy Award winner tell you the story of his hometown. Carlos Vives, one of Colombia's best-known artists, will bring the history of his beloved Santa Marta to life. Learn all about the history of Bastidas Bay. Carlos' voice will lead you to the Plaza de Bolivar, where you will discover one of the local tragedies that played a role in the Nobel Prize-winning book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. You will admire the monuments in the square and learn the stories about the last days of Libertador Bolivar, who arrived in the city in his last days.The tour also takes you to the local culture, the history of the forts, the convent of San Franciscoand the Cathedral, while discovering how the city was sacked 17 times by pirates. At the end of the tour, Carlos will tell you some of the local legends about the former inhabitants of downtown St. Marta, such as Madame Augustine.

Discover Cartagena’s major sightseeing spots on this guided tour. Travel in an air-conditioned vehicle, stopping at the convent of La Candelaria, which is located on top of La Popa Hill, for panoramic views, plus the San Felipe Fortress, popular neighborhoods, parks, and public squares. Also, enjoy free time to shop.