Sanctuary of
Flora and Fauna of Iguaque:
Ecological long walk from the high-Andean forest to the moor, where you can
observe the diversity of the flora and the fauna, arriving to the lake of
Iguaque (3.600 m). Optional with an extra charge the guide of an Ornithologist,
Entomologist or Botanic.
8:00AM – 5:00PM
$46.000
Guide
Transport
Snack
Water
Doesn’t include the cost of the entrance to the park.
Nationals: $6.500
Kids and 3thage:$3.500
Foreigners: $20.000
Morning
Step of the angel rout 1:
Circuit El Saltrillo, visiting the “Piedra Movida” (moved
stone), the Guatoque waterfall (80 meters), the well El
Saltrillo, the Moniquirá river, the Mogolla stone, and the step
of the angel. Diverse landscape, crossing some farms, Indian
roads, Guatoque canyon. Visiting in the return the monastery of
the saint Ecce Homo (founded in 1610)
8:30AM – 3:30PM
$44.000
Guide
Transport
Snack
Water
Doesn’t include the cost of the
entrance to the places.
Morning And/or
Afternoon
Step of the angel rout 2:
Visit to the waterfall and cave of the Ayal, with a road full of
Andean High Jungle with dry conditions, sighting of the step of
the Angel, and in the return, a short visit to the monastery of
the Saint Ecce Homo (founded in 1620).
8:30AM – 12:30PM
y/o
2:00PM – 6:00PM
$35.000
Guide
Transport
Snack
Water
Doesn’t include the cost of the
entrance to the places.
Morning And/or
Afternoon
Waterfalls La Piriquera:
A rout by the canyon of the river La Cebada, crossing footpaths
of farms, in a forest full of oaks and kind of rubber tree (1 to
2 hours approximately), visiting 4 waterfalls (bath option).
Stopping to watch the beautiful landscape of Villa de Leyva.
8:30AM – 12:30PM
y/o
2:00PM – 6:00PM
$34.000
Guide
Transport
Snack
Water
Morning And
Afternoon
La Honda Stream:
Visit to the waterfalls complex of the stream La Honda in
Gachantiva, passing by oaks forests, visiting the vestiges of
the old Gachantiva.
8:30AM – 12:30PM
y/o
2:00PM – 6:00PM
$42.000
Guide
Transport
Snack
Water
Anytime of the day
Hikking to the Lookpoint:
A short rout by foot from the main square of Villa de Leyva, to
the hills, crossing the Spanish canal, stopping in points of
big unions of water and/or little waterfalls, forests of oaks
and gaque, arriving to the point of view of all the town.
8:30AM – 12:30PM
y/o
2:00PM – 6:00PM
$16.000
$20.000
Guide
Water
N O C T U R N A L – T O U R
S
Chronogram
Activity
Hour
Cost per person
Includes
Night
Long walk through the Desert:
made by car to explore and feel the desert and its spectacular
sky, contemplating the flora and the fauna typical and added,
explaining about the adaptations and drying, and what happened
in Villa de Leyva. Some times by foot. Ideal places to observe
the stars, depending of the meteorological conditions.
Minimum group of 5 persons
7:00PM – 10:00PM
$30.000
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Guide
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Water
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Bonfire in the desert
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Canelazo or aguapanelazo (kids)
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Marshmallows
wCords
music live.
Night
Long walk through forest:
2h, inside of oak, and gaque forests with native and added flora
and fauna, presence of eucalyptuses and pines in Colombia, that
are still present here in Villa de Leyva. Arriving to the view
point of the town contemplating the nocturnal Villa de Leyva.
Ideal places to observe the stars, also depending on the
meteorological conditions.
Minimum group of 5 persons
7:00PM – 10:30PM
$20.000
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Guide
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Transport
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Water
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Bonfire in the desert
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Canelazo or aguapanelazo (kids)
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Marshmallows
wCords
music live.
Night
Moon Horseback riding:
An experience to live, feeling the fresh desert in the nights of
full or new moon, to enjoy of a darkness accomplice of the
universe. An ideal place to observe the stars, depending on the
meteorological conditions.
Minimum group of 8 persons.
6:15PM – 9:15PM
$35.000
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Guide
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Transport
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Bonfire
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Bonfire in the desert
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Canelazo or aguapanelazo (kids)
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music live.
S P E C I A L –
T O U R S
Chronogram
Activity
Hour
Cost per person
Includes
Morning And/or
Afternoon
“Desert” of Villa de Leyva:
A rout by car to the Marine Bottom, and to the blue wells, the
ostrich farm, the museum “El Fósil” and the archeological park
of Moniquirá (Little hell), finishing in the Guananí winery.
8:30AM – 12:30PM
y/o
2:00PM – 6:00PM
$36.000
$46.000
Long version
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Guide
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Transport
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Snack
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Water
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Doesn’t include the cost of the
entrance to the places
Morning And
Afternoon
Monastery of the Candelaria:
Visit to the monastery and the desert of La Candelaria (founded
in 1597) and to the town of Ráquira (artisan center)
8:30AM – 12:30PM
y/o
2:00PM – 6:00PM
$42.000
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Guide
w
Transport
w
Snack
w
Water
w
Doesn’t include the cost of the
entrance to the places
Morning And
Afternoon
Historical Villa de Leyva:
Walking rout by the main and historical streets of Villa de
Leyva. Visit to the Catedral, Acuña Museum, Prehistoric Museum,
El Carmen church, the house of the first congress, the House
Juan de Castellanos, the House Ricaurte, The Mill Mesopotamia,
the Paleontological (optional), and the Antonio Nariño Museum.
Anytime during the day
$14.000
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Guide
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National Beer, Soda or Coffee.
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Doesn’t include the cost of the entrance to the places.
Morning
Horseback riding to the museums:
Desert, Marine Bottom, recess in the blue well, (bath option),
visit to the Museum El Fósil (kronosaur), Archaeological Park of
Moniquirá (Infiernito), and the Guananí winery.
Optional the Ostrich farm instead of some of the other places.
9:00AM – 12:00PM
$30.000
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Guide
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Horse
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Wine tasting
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Doesn’t include the cost of the entrance to the places
Afternoon
Horseback riding “Atardecer en el Oasis”:
Desert, Marine Bottom, recess in the blue well, (bath option),
visit to the Museum El Fósil (kronosaur) and the Guananí winery.
Optional the Ostrich farm instead of some of the other places.
2:00PM – 4:30PM
$25.000
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Guide
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Horse
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Wine tasting
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Doesn’t include the cost of the entrance to the places
Morning
Canyoning in the Piriquera
and/or diverse canyons of Villa de Leyva and its surroundings.
Ideal for novices and people with not too much experience. Done
by a group of professional Europeans with professional
equipment. Minimum group of 5 persons.
Ask for adventure tours and the canyoning activity the whole day
in the lake of La Honda and some other routs with diverse
levels.
y
8:30AM – 3:30PM
$40.000
$46.000
(with
guide)
Rappel only: $20.000
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Professional guide
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Rappel equipment
Morning
Rappel en Santa Sofia:
Ideal for novices and experts, going down in the hole of La
Romera (30m), Cresta de Gallo (20m), cave of La Chapa, waterfall
of the blue well (75m), step of the Angel, Moniquira river,
activities made by the agreement with the group of specialist
Explorando.
Minimum group of 5 persons
Leaving from Villa de Leyva
8:00AM
From
$40.000
to
$48.000
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Professional guide
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Rappel equipment
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Transport form Santa Sofia.
Lender Conditions
(Colombian Highlands) and Tourists
1
guide always accompanying the group.
In
our staff we have a basic medicine kit of first aid and mobiles for
the communication.
Our
prices are per person and they include the things specified in the
table.
The
prices of all the products of Colombian Highlands are prone of
change without previous warning. Contact us!
The
quotations will have a use of 40 days alter they are given.
Anyone of our tours need to be reserved after 8 PM of the previous
day to the activity.
At least 30% of the total value of the tour it’s due to cancel
previously.
If you cannot take the tour you will have to warn us one day
previously (before 8PM) for tours in the morning, and with 6 hours
of anticipation for tours in the afternoon, personally and/or by
telephone. IF YOU DON’T DO IT YOU WILL
LOSE 20% OF THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE TOUR (Art. 65 Law 300 of 1996).
In
case of cancellation of any of the tours with a group superior to 5
persons, you’ll have to warn us with 24 hours of anticipation,
personally and/or by telephone. IF YOU DON’T, YOU’LL LOSE 20% OF THE
TOTAL VALUE OF THE TOUR (Art. 65 Law 300 of 1996).
Obligatory: Student Assurance, Card of the EPS, Prepaid Medicine
and/or International Travel Assurance, your security it’s important
to us!
You
need to read the “rules, Recommendations and Suggestions of
Colombian Highlands”.
We
make horseback ridings with children of more than 10 years old, with
a previous permission and responsibility of the parents.
Some
of our tours have the option of being taken in the morning or
afternoon.
The
beginning of the nighttimes activities can be made in the hour that
the group decide, 6PM is recommended.
The
costs of the entrance to the Sanctuary of Flora and Fauna of Iguaque
are: Nationals $6,400, Children and 3rd Age: $3,500 Foreigners
$20.000.
Surcharges for tours of one (1) to three (3) people thus: Three (3)
10%, Two (2) 14%, One (1) apply tariff of two.
Surcharge in horseback ridings one (1) person $5,000 and two (2)
people $2.500 each one.
For the outside activities it is necessary to count with:
1. Sun block
2. Repellent against insects
3. Cap or hat
4. In case of sensibility to the Sun, glasses
5. Comfortable clothes adapted to walk in the day
6. Clothes sheltered for the trek and / or night activity
7. Impermeable jacket is recommended
8. Shoes or boots adapted to walk, non-slipping sole
9. Indispensable lantern for the night activity (maximum two big
batteries)
10. Warn beforehand (early) problems of health, physical
limitations, phobias and / or allergic reactions.
11. Haversack of back to load your own things (we need both free
hands)
12. Cameras, mobiles, CD players, etc in appropriate casings and
bring hermetic bags in case of rain
13. To take only the recommended and necessarily to avoid over
weight
14. First aid kits, the college provides, with medicines
specified for the special cases
15. Obligatory Student Assurance, document of the EPS and / or
Prepaid Medicine
To the treks we go with disposition of:
1. To cross hills, royal, trails and cannons ways
2. Maybe to get wet for climatic conditions of the moment
3. Maybe to get wet crossing gullies
4. To respect, to admire and to contemplate the natural landscape
5. To know the way of life of the boyasence peasant
6. To astonish with our architectural, archaeological and
Paleontological patrimony
7. To take with us the garbage up to finding a place adapted to
deposit it
8. Not to extract, neither take with us flowers, leaves nor
animals
9. To never leave of the trails or already limited ways
10. To listen attentively to the indications of the guides and to
follow them exactly, let's remember that it is for our safety
11. Please to read the Rules, Recommendations and “Colombian
Highland’s Suggestions” (attached file)
Our
select places:
1. They are free of common delinquency, guerrilla or
paramilitaries
2. We are supported by the Civil Defense, guaranteeing still
major safety and prevention of risks for the children.
3. We cross peasants' farms with previous permission of their
owners
4. Always we include one or two local guides of rural origin,
holders of a knowledge and wisdom acquired directly of the way,
inherited and for experience, who will share theirs some of his
experiences and of his relation with the land across generations.
5. They are characterized by their beauty and diversity of
landscapes
6. They are inside agricultural ecosystems and because of this,
its importance of knowing them, to respect them and to preserve them,
since they are in danger of disappearing, for the extension of the
agricultural and cattle border
7. They are an evidence of the environmental current problematic
of our planet, that's why your presence performs vital importance since
the attention attracts great amount of peoples helping to promote
another type of economic viable activity for the region “The
Ecotourism”.
8. We have as goal offer in an immediate future the bases to
peasants of the zone new forms of economic support, where they will be
more undertaken to take care of their farms, hydrographical basins,
wooded relicts, flora and associated fauna, to share them with us in a
harmonic way, HELP US!
