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The Lost City Trek

The Lost City Trek

Teyuna: Expedition to The Sacred Land of Tayrona Culture

Join us in one of the most famous trekking expeditions that can be done in Colombia!

This is a 4 days trekking tour that takes us to a ¡unique place!, preserved, hidden, protected and magical.

The lost City Trek. Teyuna, as is originally named by the indigenous people of the area. This is an archeological site, from an ancient settlement of the Tayrona people, the ones from whom the indigenous people from these area todays descends from.

Visitaremos este sitio arqueológico, después de pedir permiso a más naturaleza y las comunidades indígenas que viven aquí y protegen esta área.

Wiwa, Kogui, Arhuaco and Kamkuamo, are the main tribes that lives today at the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. This is the spectacular mountain massif that welcomes us to visit Teyuna deep inside its jungles. This Sierra is the highest mountain on earth a side of the sea, that goes from 0 meters to more that 5500meteres above ¡the sea level! (15000ft approx). Covered with a massive amount of species and forests of all kinds is a sanctuary for the nature, biodiversity and these indigenous communities are today the keepers of this delicate treasure, the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta.

We will visit this archeological site, after asking permission to more nature and the indigenous communities that lives here and protects this area.

Is a 4 days trekking trip, guided and operated by the locals, staying in camps with tents and hammocks, through which we will enjoy the biodiversity, fauna and flora of the jungle, as well as the pristine rivers that comes down from the high snowed peaks above Teyuna in the Sierra.

Santa Marta Snowed Sierra

Teyuna

Indigenous People

Trekking

Rivers and Waterfalls

Jungles Paths

Coble Stone Paths

Ancient Vestiges

Local Tour Guides

Lost City

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Trekking 

Cerro La Vieja

Senderos en la Selva

Guías Locales

Teyuna

Pueblo Indígenas

Ríos y Cascadas

Caminos en Piedra

Vestigios Milenarios

Ciudad Perdida

We will Take you to:

  •  Enjoy the most famous trekking expedition in Colombia with the permission and accompaniment of the local indigenous and peasant communities.
  • Learn about Teyuna or as we call it, The Lost City. You will learn about its history, importance and the traditions of the indigenous communities that inhabit it to preserve Mother Nature.
  • Explore the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. This place is located deep in the jungle on the mountain. It is the highest mountain complex in the world being at the foot of the sea, going from 0 to more than 5500 m high.
  • Share with other travelers along the 4-day journey. In addition, we will enjoy calm and refreshing rivers.

 

Duration:

4 days

Accommodation:

All year

Acomodación:

Shared community accommodations, mainly in hammocks, with some rooms with beds.

LEVEL ACTIVITY

Journey Type

Tourist:  This trip is for relaxing, having fun or both. The type of activities included do not require any sort of physical preparation. It is available for all types of people and all ages.

Sportive-Active: These types of trips are more physically demanding. You need to be mentally and physically prepared for long range routes of some sort of adventure sport. You should be in good physical shape.

Active: This type of journey means a certain type of physical effort as well as physical preparation is needed. This is the first of the Active levels, so only basic and low physical preparation is required.

Expedition: Adventure trips which require varying physical levels of fitness. They are only suitable for well-prepared people, and you may face some uncertainness due to time or weather in the trip location.  Some situations will require mental as well as physical strength.

Activity Level

1 For people with physical disabilities.

2 For people who have never done any sort of physical exercise. 

3 For people who have done some exercise in the past but may have spent the last 2 years not moving a finger. 

5 For people who exercise every month of the year but not necessarily with great regularity. People with good health and travelling experience.  You will face every day activities which require average physical effort, such as short treks, or other types of activity which are not longer than 2 to 3 hours a day during the trip. 

5: Para personas que hacen ejercicio todos los meses pero que no necesariamente tienen una continuidad o una exigencia alta, con buena salud en general, experiencia viajando. Pueden enfrentar actividades con esfuerzo físico todos los días, pero en lugares sin pendientes, o trayectos cortos, que no pasen de 3 horas al día de actividad durante el viaje.

 

6 For people who like to do exercise, even with some discontinuity during the year, and are in good physical shape and good health. Those who have travelling experience, as well as camping experience. You can face 17kms (11Milles) hikes in one day, and changes in altitude of 800mts (265Ft) height at least once a week.

 

7 For people who exercise 3 to 4 times a week, are in good physical shape, have experience in adventure sports, as well as experience of camping for periods of 3 to 5 days. You can face a 20km (12mile) hike every day for 4 days with changes in altitude of 900mts (290Fts) or more. You know your rhythm, as well as how your body performs in difficult weather conditions. 

8 The same characteristics as 7, plus technical knowledge of some adventure sports.  

9  For specialized professional sports people. Routes carefully designed for high performance. Only by request.  




NIVEL - HORIZONTAL

LEVEL ACTIVITY

Journey Type

Tourist:  This trip is for relaxing, having fun or both. The type of activities included do not require any sort of physical preparation. It is available for all types of people and all ages.

Sportive-Active: These types of trips are more physically demanding. You need to be mentally and physically prepared for long range routes of some sort of adventure sport. You should be in good physical shape.

Active: This type of journey means a certain type of physical effort as well as physical preparation is needed. This is the first of the Active levels, so only basic and low physical preparation is required.

Expedition: Adventure trips which require varying physical levels of fitness. They are only suitable for well-prepared people, and you may face some uncertainness due to time or weather in the trip location.  Some situations will require mental as well as physical strength.

Activity Level

1 For people with physical disabilities.

2 For people who have never done any sort of physical exercise. 

3 For people who have done some exercise in the past but may have spent the last 2 years not moving a finger. 

5 For people who exercise every month of the year but not necessarily with great regularity. People with good health and travelling experience.  You will face every day activities which require average physical effort, such as short treks, or other types of activity which are not longer than 2 to 3 hours a day during the trip. 

5: Para personas que hacen ejercicio todos los meses pero que no necesariamente tienen una continuidad o una exigencia alta, con buena salud en general, experiencia viajando. Pueden enfrentar actividades con esfuerzo físico todos los días, pero en lugares sin pendientes, o trayectos cortos, que no pasen de 3 horas al día de actividad durante el viaje.

 

6 For people who like to do exercise, even with some discontinuity during the year, and are in good physical shape and good health. Those who have travelling experience, as well as camping experience. You can face 17kms (11Milles) hikes in one day, and changes in altitude of 800mts (265Ft) height at least once a week.

 

7 For people who exercise 3 to 4 times a week, are in good physical shape, have experience in adventure sports, as well as experience of camping for periods of 3 to 5 days. You can face a 20km (12mile) hike every day for 4 days with changes in altitude of 900mts (290Fts) or more. You know your rhythm, as well as how your body performs in difficult weather conditions. 

8 The same characteristics as 7, plus technical knowledge of some adventure sports.  

9  For specialized professional sports people. Routes carefully designed for high performance. Only by request.  




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