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2 Days Private Tour in Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Aracataca

By Duran Duran Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is £454 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

This journey allows us to understand the creative process of the writer. It helps us see the influence that great writers from around the world had on his political and literary thinking and especially the great influence of his grandparents and the environment in which he lived his first 22 years.

Likewise, it helps us understand several of his works and especially Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Colonel Has No One to Write to Him, and others.

Activity location

  • Fundacion
    • Fundacion, Colombia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Fundacion
    • Fundacion, Colombia

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2 Days Private Tour in Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Aracataca
  • Activity duration is 2 days2d
    2d
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 06:00
Price details
£453.54 x 1 Adult£453.54
Total
Price is £453.54
Until Sun, 15 Mar

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Breakfast
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    lunch and dinner

Know before you book

  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Departure in Cartagena at 6 AM.

  • 4 stops
  • Meals: breakfast
  • Accommodation: We spend one night in a nice hotel with air condition

Fundacion

  • 20m
We visit the main square where The United Company got Influence

Aracataca

  • 30m
In Aracataca, ther was an office .This place got influence in the caribean economy in the 20 century through out an American Company name The United Fruit Company. There is also a very old house where used to lived Ferguson The first teacher of our journalist.

Magdalena

  • 20m
In Aracataca we have the post office where Gabriel García Márquez's father worked when he fell in love with Luisa Santiaga.

Aracataca

  • 50m
Walking through the streets of Aracataca is an enriching experience.

Day 2: Visiting Macondo - Aracataca

  • 6 stops
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Not included

Casa Museo Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • 1h
In this beautiful place, we will discover the magical and realistic spaces where Gabo finds himself. The house represents his childhood and his relationship with the magical world and the reality of a soldier with his feet on the ground.

Casa del Telegrafista

  • 20m
This recently restored place can be visited from the outside, and allows us to learn a little more about the character and profession of the father of the novel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In today's glovalized world, with social networks at the reach of a click, this place allows us to understand the importance of the telegraph with all its potential.

Iglesia San Jose

  • 20m
Gabo was not religious but he respected the beliefs of others, and this church was related to his life, from his earliest age. A famous writer, novel winner of literature, called Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The man who killed God." Why?

Rio Aracataca

  • 20m
Water is an essential part of the life of Colombians, thanks to the large number of rivers in the country and the Aracataca River with its rocks like dinosaur eggs is no exception. Colombia no tiene dos oceanos; son tres.

Rio Aracataca

  • 40m
Water is a vital element for life and in the work of the journalist and poet Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The little fish from One Hundred Years of Solitude not only swim in the rivers of Colombia, but also in the minds of the yellow butterflies.

Aracataca

  • 45m
We have the monument to Remedios the beautifull from One hundred years of solitude, The train Station and a lot more. Is it possible to enter heaven in a corporeal form?

Location

Activity location

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    Fundacion
    • Fundacion, Colombia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Fundacion
    • Fundacion, Colombia

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