LOST CITY TREK

The Lost City Trek is an exciting trek, where there is no shortage of experiences and encounters with the indigenous people of the communities located along the way, while they carry out their daily activities, walking through the stone paths wrapped in the jungle that lead to Teyuna.

As a main activity the Lost City Trekking offers the trek to the Lost City (Teyuna), which is not easy at all, but it is worth making an effort to gain the heat, the mosquitoes and cross the rivers.

In addition, the route of the Lost City Trekking has altitudes that vary between 800 and 1300 meters, in the middle of the Colombian rainforest, one of the last sanctuaries of brightly colored biodiversity, where the current Kogui, Arhuaca and Wiwa Indians (all descendants of the Tayrona) are found, who continue to preserve their traditions.

We start our tour from the city of Santa Marta, a few kilometers from the Mamey or Machete Pelao, where we will arrive by Jeep 4×4 since most of the route is not paved, which is where the walk will begin.

Home Tour

Simón Bolívar Airport in Santa Marta or at the Hotel of your stay.

Final Tour

Simón Bolívar Airport in Santa Marta or at the Hotel of your stay.

Includes

All Transfers.	Indigenous Guide.
Full board.	24-hour telephone service.

Not include

Alcohol.

Tips.

Notes

The management of our tours is entrusted to guides with experience in the area, however, the Lost City Trek is entrusted to indigenous guides.
In the Tour, all services that are not mentioned and appear in the program are also included.
The cost of the Tour must be paid with 50% at the time of confirmation and the remaining 50% at the time of departure.
Notify if you are Vegetarian / Vegan at the time of booking.
Important: Each traveler is responsible for their belongings, TC Travel SAS is not responsible for garments or items lost during the excursion.
If you have any extra luggage, we can store it in our offices in Santa Marta or Riohacha free of charge.

Additional Fees

Mules Supplement Trekking Lost City 700,000 Pesos (COP) (El Mamey – Cabaña Paraiso Teyuna – El Mamey).
Travel insurance 240,000 pesos (COP).

1° DAY / Santa Marta - Lost City:

Early in the morning, we go with a 4×4 Jeep since a third of the route is not paved, to reach El Mamey or Machete Pelao (duration 2 hours approx.), Where the trekking to the Lost City will begin, while we have lunch, We meet our guide, and we set out to get to Cabaña Alfredo in the late afternoon, while we wait for dinner, we settle in and we can decide whether to sleep in a hammock or in bunk beds.

(Lunch, dinner, snacks and fruits with water and non-alcoholic beverages included, overnight in a hammock or bunk beds).

To Cabaña Alfredo
Distance: 9.2 km | Time: 3:30h | Elevation gain: uphill 900m downhill 600m

2° DAY / Lost City:

We wake up at the first light of dawn, while the guides will prepare breakfast for us. Immediately after, we start the trekking, meeting the Kogui Indians who walk the paths barefoot in their traditional clothes will be more and more frequent. We stopped for lunch at Cabaña Wiwa and to visit the Mutanzhi indigenous community. We will arrive at Cabaña Paraíso Teyuna late in the afternoon, where we can relax on the banks of the Buritaca River or take a refreshing bath, while we wait for dinner that our guides will be preparing for us. We return to Cabaña Paraíso Teyuna to have dinner and spend the night.

(Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and fruits with water and non-alcoholic drinks included, overnight in a hammock or bunk beds).

To Cabaña Wiwa
Distance: 8 km | Time: 3:00h | Elevation gain: uphill 500m downhill 520m

To Cabaña Paraiso Teyuna
Distance: 8.5 km | Time: 3:00h | Elevation gain: uphill 700m downhill 300m

3 DAY / Lost City:

Early in the morning, but only after breakfast, we resume the trekking, but this time to reach our destination, we walk for fifteen minutes along the bank of the Buritaca River to the ford and from there the path will take us to the 1200 steps that we lead to Ciudad Perdida that the Arhuaco, Koguis and Wiwa Indians called Teyuna and believe that it was the center of a network of villages inhabited by their ancestors the Tayrona indigenous. After a well-deserved rest admiring the landscape of the Lost City, we descend to Cabaña Paraíso Teyuna to have lunch and continue the descent in the afternoon to Cabaña Wiwa for dinner and spend the night.

(Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and fruits with water and non-alcoholic drinks included, overnight in a hammock or bunk beds).

To Lost City
Distance: 1 km | Time: 1:00h | Slope: uphill 365m downhill 365m

To Cabaña Wiwa
Distance: 9,5 km | Time: 4:00h | Slope: uphill 300m downhill 750m

4° DAY / Lost City - Santa Marta:

Early in the morning, after breakfast, we resume the trekking, the descents prevail over the ascents, that is why we travel more kilometers, to return to El Mamey, arriving at noon to have lunch, where our 4×4 Jeep will be waiting to take us from back to Santa Marta.

(Breakfast, lunch, snacks and fruits with water and non-alcoholic beverages included).

To El Mamey
Distance: 15,7 km | Time: 5:30h | Slope: uphill 850m downhill 1200m

Ciudad Perdida

CLOTHING AND USEFUL THINGS
Light trousers or Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt.
Camera or camcorder.
Bathing suit and towel.
Sports and trekking shoes.
Hat.
Mosquito repellent.
Solar protection.
Thermos for water.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE TRAVELER
Respect the environment and leave garbage in the proper containers.
Do not cause damage to structures or the environment.
If you have any medical conditions or allergies, please notify yourself when booking.

VACCINES
No particular vaccinations are required.
The yellow fever vaccine is recommended only as a preventive measure, as there are no cases in this region.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
At the time of departure present identification documents Passport, DNI or CC.
During the Tour the traveler can bring a photocopy of their identification document.