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Guatavita Lake - Salt Cathedral

By Imagine your Bogota
9 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is €103 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 11h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Indigenous economy activities, religious, art, and other determined the settlement of the Spanish and the foundation of Bogotá. In this tour you will understand the relation between the nature, the salt, the Dorado Legend, the Salt Cathedral, Gold Museum, the gold, the cooper and the Bogota population.

Since we met, I began to explain some general details about Bogotá, then when we leave the city I will speak about the valley around the city, I will provide information about the original indigenous habitants called “ Muiscas” , their customs, some of their words and how all this heritage is included now in our society and in our food.

We will meet a guide of the lake that speaks about the native culture and will explain why is so popular the Dorado Legend?, we will discuss the meaning of this ceremony. We will feel the mystic of the place, its energy and the relationship between nature and this space.

In Guatavita town we will enjoy architecture, food, deserts and also handicrafts shopping.

In Zipaquira I will speak some details of the Salt Cathedral and I will conduct the traveller to the underground Cathedral, this construction is unique because of its magnificence, the content of every sculpture, the representation of the way to the cross and the cross.

Activity location

  • Laguna de Guatavita
    • Km 15, Via Guatavita-Sesquile
    • Tierra Negra, Colombia, Colombia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Laguna de Guatavita
    • Km 15, Via Guatavita-Sesquile
    • Tierra Negra, Colombia, Colombia

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Guatavita Lake - Salt Cathedral
  • Activity duration is 11 hours11h
    11h
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 08:00
Price details
€102.66 x 1 Adult€102.66

Total
Price is €102.66
Until Fri, 25 Jul

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate transport
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance to the Guatavita Lake
  • What's includedWhat's includedBottled water
  • What's includedWhat's includedDuring the tour I lend binoculars and raincoats
  • What's includedWhat's includedColombian sweets of different regions like Santander, Boyacá.
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance to the Salt Cathedral, Audioguide included only for this attraction
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedBreakfast
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedSoft drink/Pop

Know before you book

  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Guatavita lake does not have access to wheel chairs and strollers
  • Salta Cathedral has access to wheel chairs and strollers
  • Please use comfortable clothes and shoes
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Laguna de Guatavita
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
We begin to walk into Guatavita natural reservation. We will meet a guide of the lake that speaks about the native culture, I do the translation and add some information, then we begin to climb steps, it is aprox 130 metres (426 feet). But do not worry we will stop several times. As soon as we finish the stairs, we arrive to the first lake viewpoint, we can appreciate the lake, the water and her colours, also we can listen and see some birds. We continue walking and the vegetation begin to change from Andean cold weather (same weather than Bogotá) to Paramo (Andean moor) with its special plants like the frailejon (plants with their thick, soft leaves like the ears of a rabbit), you can find that plants only in Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela. After walking for 90 minutes we exit the lake and we can eat some muisca food like the corn cob. There are three viewpoints
Catedral de Sal de Zipaquira
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
The traveller will pick up an audio guide and enter the underground cathedral built by miners, will walk through the entrance tunnel and reach the representation of the way to the cross (representation of the Jesus moments experienced by Jesus before the crucifixion) then the tourist will find a dome and access to the main Cathedral when will find the cross, holy Mary and other works made by miners. You will find a water mirror and can buy salt figures, emeralds, coffee and more. I will wail the travellers at the entrance of the touristic attraction.
Guatavita
  • 20m
Guatavita town was founded in 1967, it has colonial architecture, big squares, gastronomy and place to buy handicrafts

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESLaguna de Guatavita
    • Km 15, Via Guatavita-Sesquile
    • Tierra Negra, Colombia, Colombia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLELaguna de Guatavita
    • Km 15, Via Guatavita-Sesquile
    • Tierra Negra, Colombia, Colombia

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