Chicamocha Canyon Rafting

• Receive an airport pick-up from Aeropuerto Internacional Palonegro in Bucaramanga or meet direcly in San Guil.
• Drive to the Chicamocha national park & meet your guides at 11 am
• Begin rafting for 45 km on exhilarating whitewater (class 3 to 4)
• Enjoy lunches and wilderness camps in the most spectacular parts of the canyon
• Take out on Day 2 and return to San Gil by 6 pm

Fly into Aeropuerto Internacional Palonegro in Bucaramanga, the capital of Santander department. Drive 3 hours to the adventurous town of San Gil, a tight-knit whitewater kayaking community. Meet your guide in San Gil around 12 pm to meet your guide for lunch in town. Next, learn about river safety and the start of your river rafting trip on the Chicamocha. Have a fun day rafting over 30 km of constant whitewater in a sunny, dry desert climate. Take refreshing swims in the calm sections of the river before going through Class 3 whitewater rapids. Arrive to the village of Jordan by the evening and set up a riverside camp before sunset. Enjoy campfire meals and a night sleeping in sheltered hammocks under a starry sky.

Wake up with a dip in the river before your campfire breakfast. Enjoy rafting all day as the river carves through a red rock canyon. Experience a gourmet lunch in the deepest part of the canyon, with walls rising to approximately 1000 meters. Take in the magic of this place that was nominated as one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. See how the canyon’s sandstone walls reveal unique geological formations. At the take out, take a small dirt road carved into the mountainside to capture one last stunning vista of the powerful canyon of the Chicamocha. Drive for about 1 ½ hours to return to San Gil by 6 p.m. Arrange with us ahead of time when you’d like an airport drop-off to Bucaramanga’s Aeropuerto Internacional Palonegro.

Extend your trip by 1 day and 1 night to meet a paragliding instructor for a 20 minutes tandem flight over the rim of the Chicamocha canyon. As you fly, take in breathtaking views of the canyon and land on a wide beach. The Chicamocha Canyon is a truly marvelous place. Deeper than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, the canyon is two kilometers in depth and 227 kilometers in length. Its river charges through 264 hectares of national park, all of which you can see as you fly.