Trips to Colombia

TRIPS TO COLOMBIA: NATIONAL PARK TAYRONA

Extension: 15,000 Hectares of which 12,000 are terrestrial and 3,000 are marine.

Year of creation: 1969.

Location: Located in the Caribbean coast to 34 km of Santa Marta via Riohacha, department of the Magdalena.

Temperature: Of 25°C to 30° C.

Access roads:
- By Washbasin: Neguange and Playa of the Dead.
- By the Zaino: Cane plantation, Arrecifes and Pueblito.

Terrestrial route: Bogota - Santa Marta - National Park Tayrona.

Airways: Bogota - Santa Marta (1 hour)

Fauna: Count with more than 100 species of mammals between which they excel tigrillo and the deer and birds like the condor, the solitary eagle and the white eagle.

Climate: Tempering - Warm


Eco-tourism:
The Natural National Park serves of eco-tourism; it counts on infrastructure for lodging and at the moment he is open to the public.

In Cane plantation, the lodging is in ecohabs, cabins that conserve characteristics of the Tayrona architecture. They have capacity for four and six people. Also it is possible to be encamped.
In Reefs also ecohabs and zones exist to encamp, properly suitable.

Sites of interest: Neguange, Reefs, Pretty Beach, the Swimming pool, the Naranjos, Beach of the Dead, Fat Tuna, Bay Shell, Cove of Chengue, Cove of Gayraca, Cinto, Guachaquita. The swimmers must have precaution in beaches where there are strong currents.

For those who practice the nautical sports and the diving, Bay Shell is the perfect place.


Routes:
- Neguanje, where it is arrived by the way at Washbasin, that also leads to Gayraca and Coralline Playa.

- By Cane plantation it is possible to be walked until beautiful Reef beaches and the Cabo.

- Long walk to Pueblito to know the city Tayrona Chayrama.

- To Naranjos leaving Cane plantation, through interpretative and natural footpaths with ample vegetation.

- Bay Shell.


Recommendations:
The visitor must be vaccinated against the yellow fever, as minimum 10 days before the trip, and will have to present/display the effective membership card to the entrance of the Protected area. This service gives institutions among others: The Colombian Red Cross and the Department of Harbor Health of the Airport gilded the Soft International in Bogota.

To wear clothes of cotton, protective cream against the sun, sport slippers, knife, hat, repulsive in bar, lantern, light blanket, towels, bags for the sweepings.

If she is going to encamp, takes full field equipment.

One does not separate of the group and he is pending of his companions. All the beaches are not apt for the bath; in some there are strong currents that put in danger their life. Please it accepts the recommendations of the guides and civil servants, since the Unit of National Parks does not become person in charge by no accident that it has during his permanence in the area, nor by the loss of value objects. It only journeys by the footpaths authorized and accompanied by a civil servant or guides.

Given the fragility of the ecosystems that will visit, and taking care of the aims of his conservation, it is prohibited to collect shells, chorales, stones, material animal or vegetable of the Park. Also, it does not have to take strange animal.

Either aerosols or other elements that consider polluting agents. By respect to the place that is visited, it is prohibited to listen to music high volume.

In order to maintain the place in good state, it is not allowed to cook, nor to smoke within the rooms; in the zone of camping it can cook in the demarcated sites.

It is asked for to maintain and in good state the facilities assigned for his demurrage tidy. It uses the waste baskets of the Park for the exhausted biodegradable. It has plastic bags to remainders of nonbiodegradable character that will have to remove when leaving the area. It is prohibited to make bonfires.

The Park has established, for some years, relations with the communities of fishermen and farmers inhabitants of the zone of influence of the park, with the purpose of to involve them with the protected area and its conservation. At present member of those communities they are member of specialized groups of guides.

Consequently an ambitious plan of handling of the tourism is being developed that will order this activity and will as much generate benefits for the park as for the communities.