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Excursion d'une journée complète au volcan de boue El Totumo, organisée par la communauté de Santa Catalina

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Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena
Full-Day Mud Volcano from Cartagena

El Totumo n'est pas un volcan de lave. C'est une fissure qui rejette de la boue, de l'eau et du gaz venus des profondeurs, et ce qui s'est accumulé autour forme un cône d'environ 15 mètres (50 pieds) de haut, avec un escalier en bois sur un côté. Au sommet se trouve le cratère. Il accueille dix à quinze personnes à la fois, ce qui donne le rythme de toute la visite : tu attends ton tour, tu descends, et la boue fait alors ce qu'aucune piscine ne fait. La bouillie est assez dense pour qu'il soit impossible de couler. Ton corps est porté par la boue elle-même, entre flottaison et suspension. Les minéraux qu'elle contient, silice, magnésium, calcium, soufre et fer, sont à l'origine des vertus exfoliantes et détoxifiantes qu'on lui prête, pour la peau comme pour les muscles. La durée de la journée, c'est toi qui la fixes. L'option du matin ou de l'après-midi reste courte et va droit au bain. La journée complète VIP ajoute un transfert vers un beach club, avec le sable et les équipements pour les heures qui suivent. Un détail qui n'a rien de marketing : toute l'activité touristique d'El Totumo est gérée par la communauté locale de Santa Catalina. Ce que tu paies pour la visite reste aux familles qui y vivent.

What's included

  • Local guide
  • Driver/guide
  • Snack
  • Local taxes

Itinéraire

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  1. Av. Blas de Lezo, El Centro, Cartagena de Indias

    Wait underneath the Pegasos monument, in the historic centre of Cartagena de Indias.

  2. BackPackers

    Hotel pick-up between 7:30 and 8:00 am in a minivan, shared with other travellers who are collected on the same run. Cartagena traffic can push the timing around, so patience helps; the pick-up happens either way.

  3. Volcan de Lodo El Totumo

    El Totumo is a mud volcano, not a cone that erupts lava: a fissure that constantly vents mud mixed with water and gas from deep underground. The cone is small, about 15 metres (50 feet), with a wooden staircase to the top. The mud is warm and highly viscous, carrying silica, magnesium, calcium, sulfur and iron, the minerals credited with exfoliating, detoxifying and therapeutic effects on skin and muscles. Density is the part nobody expects. The mud is too thick to sink into. Climb down into the crater and your body is held afloat without any effort at all, a strange sort of weightlessness that turns out to be very relaxing. The crater takes about 10 to 15 people at a time, so the sequence is stairs to the top, down into the mud, then back out.

  4. La Boquilla

    Included if you take the longer option: a club facing the beach, with facilities, where the rest of the day is spent on the sand at local pace.

  5. Av. Blas de Lezo, El Centro, Cartagena de Indias

Not included

  • Excess luggage charges (where applicable)

Good to know

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
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  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
  • Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
  • Valuables Security: Upon arrival at the volcano, please keep your valuables secure. We make the vehicle we travel in available as a safe space where all guests can leave their belongings. The vehicle will serve as your secure location.
  • Tipping and Local Community: The native community of this village relies solely on the commercial activity of the volcano. It is common for local residents to offer assistance with items you carry and subsequently ask for a tip. Tipping should be voluntary and at your discretion. To simplify the process and avoid solicitations, we highly recommend ascending the volcano without any personal items—just go in the clothes you intend to enter the mud with.
  • Massage and Exfoliation: Once inside the volcano, there are local individuals who offer massages. Please make it very clear if you do or do not want this massage and exfoliation service.
  • Cleaning Service: When exiting the volcano, a group of local women will offer to clean the mud off your body in a natural lake. If you do not wish to use this service, you are also welcome to clean yourself on your own.
  • Extra Costs: Please note that any assistance you receive, regardless of whether it is offered by the guide or not, will incur an extra cost.
  • Up to 15 travelers per booking.
  • Mobile or paper ticket accepted
  • Guiding available in: en, es.

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