Visit Palenque with natives : history, culture and ancestral legacy

4.8 (56 reviews) Cartagena, Colombia
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Duration6h 30m
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesEnglish, French, Spanish
Private tourOnly your group will participate
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Overview

We're from Palenque when you go? Come and discover a corner of Africa in Colombia, first community of free African descendants in America, Saint Basil of Palenque, through its cultural attractions: music, language, gastronomy, organizational form, identity murals, monument of Benkos Bioho, monument of Kid Pambele, ancient medicine, religiosity, house museum and all the internal aspects that make it.

THERE ARE SOME TIPS I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU.
We recommend:
1. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes.
2. Carry sunscreen and insect repellent.
3. Carry some cash, as Palenque’s economy depends heavily on voluntary contributions.

NOTE: After finishing this wonderful experience and by unanimous decision, we take an approximate 15-minute transport tour of each of the murals that color Palenque, so you can take photos and you can save your best memories of the tour.

What's included

  • Bottled water
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • "From the fire pit to the bijao" stewed and fried fish, fried chicken, steak meat, stewed pork and vegetarians.
  • Presentation of traditional music and dance Batata

What to expect

  1. San Basilio De Palenque
    1h
    TOURIST PARADOR: in this space we receive travelers by welcoming them and giving them a general description of our community.
  2. San Basilio De Palenque
    30m
    MONUMENT OF BENKOS BIOHO: the great maroon, the guide that leads to
    Liberty, the founding hero, for the palenqueros, the king of the arquebuco for the legend, Domingo Bioho for the colonial authorities, arrived enslaved in Cartagena de Indias in the last year of the 16th century. It organized palenques, configured the forms of military resistance and founded the bases and mechanisms of political negotiation with the colonial administration.
  3. San Basilio De Palenque
    30m
    SIMANKONGO HOUSE MUSEUM: place that represents a traditional house, ancestral elements and the way of life of our ancestors.
  4. San Basilio De Palenque
    30m
    MEDICINAL PATIO: know with traditional doctors the importance of ancestral medicine, also know the plants used in ancestral medicine.
  5. San Basilio De Palenque
    30m
    KOMBILESA MI: cultural and musical movement of our community, where the travelers will have the opportunity to interpret their music and their traditional instruments with the figures of the group.
  6. San Basilio De Palenque
    30m
    CULTURAL ROUTE OF MURALS: During the tour through the wonderful streets of Palenque, travelers will have the opportunity to learn the meaning of each identity mural and take beautiful photographs with them.
  7. San Basilio De Palenque
    30m
    RELIGIOUSNESS, Learn about the imposition of the Catholic religion and the true religiosity of Palenque.
  8. San Basilio De Palenque
    30m
    KID PAMBELE MONUMENT: in this monument we will talk about the importance of Antonio Cervantes Reyes (kid pambele) in Colombian boxing and his contribution to the development of our community, ending with a small boxing class.
  9. San Basilio De Palenque
    1h
    GASTRONOMY: we will finish the tour tasting a typical lunch of the community "fish in coconut sumo, from the stove to the bijao"

Additional information

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Reviews

4.8 (56)

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