Included: breakfast, lunch

Departure at 9:30am for morning dance class at 10am. Wear comfortable clothing that you can sweat in for the dance class and comfortable shoes for the walking tour.

10am: Dance class

12pm: Tour of Cali's past and present through the lens of Black and Afrodescendant people.

Group Lunch at 4:00pm at Valle Pacifico, Black owned, woman-owned restaurant series, one of our favorites!

Moderate activity, bring all that you need for sun protection, comfortable shoes and snacks as we have a large gap from breakfast to lunch.

Included: breakfast

Independent day, you can spend the day as you wish. The Petronio festival opens that night.

Suggestions:

-Museum of Salsa

-Jairo Varela Museum

-La Linterna Poster Store

-Makerule Pacific Coast Ice Cream Store

-Tortelli Restaurant

-Waunana Restaurant

-Donde Luz Restaurant

-Plazuela Municipal El Peñon, has multiple restaurants and happy hour 3-7pm

-Ioenta Restaurant

-Patty Pasteles Restaurant

-La Case del Patty Restaurant

Join us for our morning activity and spend the day as you wish.

Included: Breakfast & lunch

Departure 6:30am

We head out early from Cali through the winding mountains to Buenaventura. The drive from Cali to Buenaventura takes approximately 2.5 to 3.5 hours, cutting through Colombia’s lush western Andes. The winding mountain roads descend into thick tropical forest, offering stunning views. We will have a traditional breakfast along the way.

Buenaventura itself, Colombia’s largest Pacific port, despite decades of state abandonment and economic marginalization, the people remain deeply rooted in ancestral traditions, and spiritual, reciprocal ties to the rainforest, rivers, and ocean. We will drop our big suitcases off in Buenaventura then head to the dock to travel one hour by boat to a small seaside village, on the Pacific Coast.

We arrive to Juanchaco where we drop off our belongings at our accommodations and head to see the whales. We take the small boat to have lunch on La Barra beach and head back to our accommodations.

Dinner is independent

Moderate-high activity

Included: breakfast and dinner 

Departure 9:00am

We spend the day basking in the unending beauty of the Pacific. We visit the beach coastline, waterfalls, cascades, and natural pools. We return back to mainland Buenaventura for lunch near the dock and an independent afternoon. We meet again for our group dinner, departure at 7:30pm.

Included: breakfast and  lunch

More about San Cipriano

Departure at 7:30am. Have your belongings packed and ready for check out.

We depart Buenaventura by bus to Córdoba/Zaragoza (45 mins) where we load onto brujitas for a 30-minute ride into the reserve.

We spend the day hiking in San Cipriano, deep in Colombia’s rainforest near Buenaventura (about 2–2.5 hours from Cali), San Cipriano is a remote nature reserve accessible only by “brujitas”—makeshift wooden rail carts powered by motorcycles that glide along abandoned train tracks through tunnels, suspension bridges, and dense jungles. We traverse a challenging hike, enjoying waterfalls, streams and natural pools along the way and ending with tubing on the river. We have lunch in the community before we head back to Calí for our last night and farewell dinner.

Village infrastructure is basic: limited resources, limited shops, no ATMs, and minimal facilities—so bring cash, water, snacks, sunscreen, bug spray, water shoes, clothing you can get wet and muddy as we will be hiking and traversing through water simultaneously.

See you next time!