Santander: The Route Where I Was Born Traditional gastronomic experience, rural immersion and art with earth

📍 Pick-up at hotels in Barichara or Casa de la Cultura

💰From COP $420,000 per person

🌿 Interactive Nature

🍽 Gastronomy

📍Local data

🏛 Culture

🎨 Earth art

🕒 Accept bookings up to 3 hours before the experience

♻ Optimizing food waste

Cancellation policies

▪100% of the value paid 15 days in advance

▪50% of the value paid 8 days in advance

🚐 Transportation included

🍴 Meals included

🏞 The Route Where I Was Born – Living Roots of Barichara

📍 Location: Barichara – Rural area

🕗 Start time: 8:00 am

🕓 End time: 4:00 pm

⏱ Duration: 6 to 7 hours

🧭 Modality: Cultural walk – rural immersion gastronomic experience – art workshop

“The Route Where I Was Born” is a profoundly emotional and sensory experience that invites you to walk, feel, create, and savor the roots of the region. It begins in the heart of Barichara, one of Colombia's most beautiful towns, with a walking tour through its cobblestone streets, artisan workshops, churches, and living stories that reveal the essence of its people. The journey continues along trails that connect the town center with the countryside. Through a guided walk, the

Visitors travel through rural landscapes, orchards, native trees and peasant houses, while the hosts share childhood stories, inherited knowledge and their relationship with the land.

Upon arriving in the rural area, a traditional chiva (a type of open-sided bus) picks up the group and continues along colorful, musical roads to a farm where the gastronomic experience unfolds. There, visitors are welcomed with warm hospitality and ancestral flavors: a lunch prepared over a wood fire, with traditional recipes that evoke family memories and celebrate rural cuisine. Afterward, a workshop on earth painting takes place, an ancestral artistic experience where participants create their own works using natural pigments extracted from the soil. This space invites a connection with the land through...

Creativity, color, and memory. The experience culminates with time to rest, talk, share, and connect with the deep essence of rural life before returning to Barichara.

Includes

✔ Guided walk through the historic center and rural trails

✔ Transportation in a traditional chiva bus

✔ Countryside gastronomic experience (traditional lunch)

✔ Experiential workshop on painting with earth

✔ Interaction with local families

✔ Life stories, traditions and living culture

Ideal for people seeking to reconnect with what is essential, live an authentic human experience, express their creativity and understand the cultural and emotional richness of the territory of

Barichara.