One of the best ways to understand the city and people of Cartagena is through how they spend their past-time - in this case what they drink and the music they listen and dance to.
This tour takes you on a voyage through 4 different musical styles: Folkloric (such as mápele and cumbia), Vallenato, Salsa and Champeta. We will learn about the origins of the different styles and their associated dances and share fun anecdotes that help understand their importance to Cartagena.
You will have the opportunity to learn basic steps in each dance. To accompany each genre, we will also have a different drink typical to Cartagena; colombian coffee (tinto), Colombian Aguardiente, Colombian rum and a local beer. Each drink has its own story and has earned its place in Colombian daily life and legend.
This evening, you'll enjoy a 10-course tasting experience inside an award-winning gay-owned restaurant. Both chef/owners are actually members of the LGBT+ community. Throughout the evening, you will go on a gastronomic tour of the Colombian Caribbean, including a round of of appetizers, three cold dishes, three hot dishes, two desserts, and petit fours with coffee or tea.
The restaurant was born out of an experimental lab, a 4-year research initiative focused on giving visibility to the gastronomic culture and biodiversity of the Colombian Caribbean through exploration trips. The Chefs set out to teach people that the food of this region is much more than fried fish, coconut rice and fried plantain. The cuisine of the Colombian Caribbean is the product of a crossbreeding of cultures that arrived in the Caribbean hundreds of years ago: Spanish and European, African, Syrian, Lebanese, but also indigenous people who inhabited the territory long before, and that together made their contributions to what today is known as the Colombian Caribbean cuisine.