Throughout 2017 and 2018 it was closed on the identical dates and it is extremely doable that will probably be repeated in future years, hold this in thoughts in your journey plans in 2020. Here the news.

However, since April 1, 2017 the yellow fever vaccine is critical to entry the park, we have no idea in the event that they do any sort of management on the entrance.

The caribbean coast of colombia left us in love, virtually all of it, for sure the Tayrona Nationwide Park It's a essential and exquisite level that can not be missed. It has just lately been information as they've determined to shut the park to permit the indigenous individuals who reside in it to scrub up. Sadly many vacationers use it as a landfill and depart their shit wherever they go. Given its excessive inflow, if each 2 out of 10 individuals don't management their waste, the park finally ends up being a rubbish dump … and we do not need that to occur, proper?

Please, wherever you go and no matter you do, deal with sanctuaries like these, there are few left on this planet and they're paradises that we should preserve.

If you happen to come right here considering of doing the stroll to the misplaced metropolis you are able to do it with these guys in 4 days with meals and accommodation included from € 300 per person (1 Million pesos approx).

Tips on how to get to Tayrona Park from santa Marta

Tayrona Park It's simply lower than 40 km from Santa Marta, so staying in that metropolis just isn't a nasty thought, many individuals spend the night time in Taganga, an adjoining city -although to my liking it's too filled with tourists- they usually even take the boat from there to reach.

To enter the park there are a number of routes, the primary, by boat from Taganga. The second, the busiest, often known as “El Zaíno” is the one which takes you to the seashores in a couple of minutes' stroll – for those who do not wish to stroll there are horses that may take you – and the third, the much less recognized, El Calabazo. Lastly you'll be able to enter by way of Palaganga however right here there are not any tenting choices so you'll be able to solely go throughout the day. From the latter it can't be linked to the opposite 3. The opposite Three are interconnected contained in the park.

The bus in Santa Marta will be taken on Avenida Libertador, however it's higher to take it at the start line: The Central Market prices 7.000 pesos for those who go to Zaino and 6,000 for those who go to the squash.

 

From Santa Marta to El Zaino There are about 32 km, an approximate 1 hour journey as a result of it goes calmly, after which a 30-45 minute stroll awaits you to the cane area, a little bit earlier than you'll arrive on the half often known as Swimming pool. And till Cabo San Juan roughly 1h in complete (much less for those who go together with a superb rhythm)

From Santa Marta to El Calabazo There are about 30 km roughly 45 minutes by bus, the doorway by way of the gourd is the toughest since there are two choices for strolling. Calabazo-Pueblito-Cabo San Juan which is about 5-6h or Calabazo-Playa Brava (kind of the identical distance) to enter by way of Calabazo you must ask the bus to cease as it isn't traditional.

Boat from Cabo San Juan to Taganga or vice versa: 45,000 pesos approx, the cabo arrives round 12:00 (midday) and leaves for Taganga at 2:00 pm

These costs have been up to date on January 18, 2109 and have been rising significantly within the final two years. We'll attempt to hold you at all times updated, if in case you have visited the park just lately and have updates, we respect you leaving them within the feedback.

There are two costs within the park relying on the time by which it's visited. Excessive season (TA), which runs from June 15 to June 15 and from December 15 to January 15, along with together with Easter and financial institution holidays.

Off-season (TB), all different dates:

Since 2019, it's also now necessary to pay for accident and rescue medical insurance coverage that has a value of $ 2,500 per day in accordance with official figures, though a reader has instructed us that it's $ 3,100 per day. We have no idea whether it is doable NOT to pay it whether it is proven that you have already got journey insurance coverage.

Residents of the member states of the Andean Group (CAN), that's, Ecuador, Peru or Bolivia, might be topic to the excessive season Colombian charges

Customer sort	Entrance value (Low Season and Excessive Season)
Colombian adults over 65 years of age	Totally free
Colombian or international youngsters below 5 years previous	Totally free
Disabled individuals.	Totally free
Kids from 5 years previous and college students below 25 years previous presenting a doc that accredits it	$ 10,000 TB or $ 11,000 TA
Colombians from 5 to 25 years previous	$ 17,500 TB or $ 19,500 TA
Colombians from 26 to 64 years previous	$ 27.500 TA
Foreigners over 5 years previous	$ 61.500 TA
Car / Motorbike	$ 13.000 / $ 9.500
Parking automobile / bike diary	$10.000  / $ 8.000

In case of excessive season, it's advisable to purchase tickets upfront on the web portal of www.parquetayrona.com.co that can have a surcharge for on-line fee. On this manner you'll enter with out strains and with assured house.

The park has a restricted capability of 1,850 individuals for the Zaíno entrance and a couple of,500 for the Palangana entrance. There isn't any point out of limitations because of the entrance by way of Calabazo, which is far much less crowded.

Different costs

Zaino entrance transportation to Cañaveral or vice versa: 3.000 COP
Horses or mules from Cabo San Juan to Pueblito: 100,000 COP spherical journey.
Horses or mules from Cape San Juan to Cañaveral: 32.000 COP
Horses or mules from Arrecifes to Cañaveral:15.000 COP

To this should be added the transfers both by boat or by bus and the costs of the lodging.

Free tenting within the park is prohibited And it's comprehensible, individuals have no idea the right way to behave, so the tenting areas are designated in sure areas and have their costs, beneath:

Cabo San Juan

Hammocks: COP 30,000 – COP 40,000 (viewpoint)
Tent: 15,000 pesos per particular person, 50,000 pesos if it's essential hire a tent (value for 2 individuals!)

Arrecifes Sector

In reefs there are a number of “lodging” they usually have completely different costs, if I bear in mind accurately Don Pedro was the most cost effective, we didn't keep there as a result of we got here from the opposite aspect and we didn't comprehend it existed. Needless to say you can't enter the ocean on this space so there's a 20 minute stroll to the seaside)

Hamaca: 10,000 to 20,000 pesos
Tent: 8,000 to 13,000 pesos per particular person (your tent)
Ecohabs: 180 USD per night time per room (as much as 5 individuals)

Brava seaside

Only a few individuals go to Playa Brava, we did it, the costs are much like reefs, cheaper than in Cabo.

Meals costs

They're very related all through the park

Breakfasts from: 10,000 pesos
Lunches and dinners from: 18,000 pesos
Beer: 5,000 pesos
Half a liter of water: 5,000 pesos
Tender drinks: 5,000 pesos

 

Is it doable to enter Tayrona park without cost?

Sure, it might probably, and we don't suggest it in any respect, not solely as a result of the cash from the park is used for its conservation however as a result of we did it and in a totally uninformed manner, so if we weren't fortunate we'd have had a really unhealthy expertise. I make clear for the extraordinarily moralists, we entered without cost as a result of we misplaced the cash that we had left for that week in a bus two days earlier than I did it or we gave up the concept of ​​going to the park … I didn't wish to miss it for the world so we discovered a approach to enter with out paying.

I depart it right here in writing as a result of everyone seems to be free to do what they need, but additionally as a result of it was definitely not the perfect thought and, since we didn't know very nicely that we'd meet, for those who resolve to do it, please, do it with this info and watch out. It's not a straightforward journey.

 

To enter with out paying you must do it through El Calabazo, and you must do it when there are now not any guards, that's, when the park closes its entry, after 5 pm. Meaning being ready for a hike of about Eight km up the mountain, look good And assume that you'll find yourself strolling at midnight since it would take about 6 hours, perhaps extra for those who go sluggish and along with your tenting gear. Our thought was to reach that very same night time at Cabo San Juan however you must know that the indigenous individuals will forestall you from getting into the small city after a sure time since this can be very prohibited to camp there (and it additionally is sensible) so there isn't any different possibility than to go to Playa Brava.

We wish to stroll, we're used to carrying our 12-15 kg backpacks for a lot of kilometers and it was tough for us, we sweated what we had not sweated in life, nicely virtually similar to the climb to machupicchu on foot however alone, with a whole lot of weight and wildlife that we have no idea. We carried 10 liters of water since as I stated, we had no cash and we wanted water to prepare dinner our meals for Three days. If you happen to go excessive, go forward, however I warn you, it isn't straightforward.

If you will do that you want three essential issues, Water (so much), mild and a GPS, with no gps this route I don't suggest to anybody. Tayrona Park is a comparatively wild place, particularly in that space, the place there are completely different species of snakes, many toxic, consider me, we have been scared, we didn't know what to anticipate.

That can even imply that for those who intend to get to Cabo San Juan the following day one other stroll of about 8-9km awaits you to depart Playa Brava, you must cross a small city for what is a crucial ascent.

 

What to do in Tayrona Park?

Look, a map!

90% of the individuals go to its seashores – it does not shock me both – however for those who actually wish to take pleasure in it then plan to go off the crushed monitor. We, among the many unhealthy issues, have been fortunate to have to do this path and it allowed us to discover the park as many individuals have by no means achieved, close to Brava seaside we have been in a position to bathe ALONE and bare in some stunning waterfalls, we have been unfortunate sufficient to satisfy a inexperienced snake pecked alongside the best way -which I virtually put my foot on-, we chatted with those that work in Playa Brava and he gave us a fast class on “What snakes are harmful”, we slept subsequent to an iguana the dimensions of My canine ​​and we have been in a position to chat in a brief manner with the indigenous park guards and the howler monkeys gave us some scares. All this is able to not have been doable if we had restricted ourselves to sporting our bikini to take selfies on the seaside.

The street to city from Cabo just isn't straightforward however neither is it excessive and it's a magical place, for those who wouldn't have cash to afford a stroll to the misplaced metropolis, then take pleasure in what you must the fullest, it's value it. Tayrona is an exquisite place, actually, stunning.

In case you are into nudism, there's a nudist seaside a number of kilometers from Cabo San Juan. By the best way, be ready for storms, they're great and fall with out warning.

What to not do in Tayrona park?

Tenting solely the place it's allowed, there are causes for it, sure, we all know that it's a enterprise however it's also the house of many indigenous households. Do not depart your waste across the park, it does not want it. Take all the things you convey with you and the park can proceed to obtain guests.

Don't enter baggage of water, you must move it in cans, musical devices or pets are usually not allowed both.

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