If you plan to visit Tayrona National Park in Colombia, take a moment to discover how to get to Cabo San Juan. Any traveler on vacation in the city wants to discover the Tayrona National Park, and what better idea than to visit one of the best beaches in Santa Marta?
The wonderful Cabo San Juan beach has everything you need to enjoy your visit to Tayrona, a destination with great Caribbean charm that will make you fall in love with it.
Where is Cabo San Juan del Guia located?
Cabo San Juan Santa Marta provides a relaxing and enjoyable experience for tourists who visit the pearl of the Caribbean every year. A hidden paradise that you must know, located within the Tayrona National Park, where you can find a beautiful paradisiacal landscape and a huge blue sea that will delight you when you reach this site, where the natural scenery is the main attraction of this magnificent beach.
cabo san juan how to get there
You will recognize this beautiful destination because it is the only beach in the Tayrona Park that is surrounded by a lot of vegetation and there is a rocky hill in the middle of the sea with a hut on top that has one of the most impressive views in Colombia.
Cabo San Juan is a destination where you will find a wide camping area for domestic and foreign tourists to enjoy their experience on the beach and stay in hammocks or camping for days.
In Cabo San Juan Tayrona you can visit the restaurant to eat the fruits of the Colombian Caribbean, also sell canned goods and groceries, you will have access to activities such as ecological walks, hiking and guided tours so you can make the most of this tourist destination.
How to get to Cabo San Juan from Santa Marta
If you are wondering how to go to Cabo San Juan and do not know how to go to this tourist destination in Santa Marta, which can offer beautiful natural scenery and crystal clear sea beaches to spend a totally different day, here we will tell you how to visit Cabo San Juan Tayrona and if you spend the night at our Hotel Yachay we will give you all the recommendations, tips, advice and the best route to know the best beaches of the Tayrona Park and all its tourist attractions.
Do you know the two ways to go to Cabo San Juan Tayrona?
You head towards the fishing village of Taganga, which is where boats leave every day to many destinations in the Tayrona Park, Cabo San Juan will be the option to take and the duration of the sea trip is about an hour.
The boat trip to Cabo San Juan from Taganga costs approximately COP $150,000 per person, round trip transportation. "There is no entrance fee to the Park."
The boats start the tour at 10:00 AM and return to Taganga at 5:00 PM, if your intention is not to return the same day, you can negotiate only the outbound transportation and stay in campsites or in some lodging place. The boat transportation to Tayrona Park is through the open sea and is a trip full of adrenaline.
Excursion to Cabo San Juan del Guía
Traveling by land is an option to make the trip from Santa Marta to Tayrona Park. Travelers can take a bus, cab or private car. Travel time is approximately one hour by cab and one hour and a half by bus. After paying the entrance fee to the park, travelers will arrive at the parking lot of the cane field, where the ecological hike begins.
The excursion type tour lasts approximately 2 to 3 hours and starts in the cane field along a path typical of Tayrona, during the walk you will be surrounded by trees and thick vegetation, until you reach the reef sector where the ecosystem is a little dry and you will be closer to the sea. During the trip you will visit beaches such as the natural pool and arenillas. Then you continue the hike until you reach Cabo San Juan, one of the best beaches in Santa Marta.
Camping Cabo San Juan
As soon as you get to know the beautiful beach of Cabo San Juan you will not want to leave the same day, we recommend camping in the Cabo San Juan camping area, with only 100,000 pesos you can rent a large tent for two people per night, if you bring your own tent you will be charged only the space for only $30,000 COP.
If you want something cheaper, you can sleep in hammocks that cost an average of $40,000 COP and $50,000 COP per night so you can enjoy your experience much more.
We offer you the best natural experience in the Tayrona National Park, we design exclusive activities for eco tourism and adventure lovers. We are an Ecolodge located within the Tayrona National Park, Zaino sector, we are committed to sustainable tourism.
The name of our brand YACHAY, is a word of Quechua origin that means knowledge or wisdom; It also refers to experience or experience as complements to the understanding, we believe that nature is the first source of knowledge that the human being must have.
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