TAYRONA NATIONAL PARKS COLOMBIA

Is the closest thing to the dream of a lost paradise. An endless path of white pebbles leads you to an important indigenous tribe.  And guess what they sell a delicious chocolate bread. ( OLIVER EHMIG VELES National Geographic photographer)






Begining inmediately east of Taganga, Tayrona National Park extends along 20 miles of rugged shore and rises inland to 2,950 feet in elevation stop the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.  Nowhere else in Colombia offer such a winning combination of accessibility, palm-fringed beaches, rain foreast teeming wiht wildlife, and major archaelogical site.

The wester Palangana sector draws locals from Santa Marta for the silvery beach at Playa Neguanje
The main eastern entrance is at El Zaino from where a hilly trail winds though rain forest full of agountis, white-faced monkeys, and scarlet macaws. The trail spills onto Playa Canaveral a beach that merges west into Playa Arrecifes. Surf pounts ashote, making swimming dangerous. To bathe, follow the trail west to Playita Arenita, a palm-fringed cove with calm waters, and beyond, Cabo San Juan de Guia, where a tombolo connnects a rocky headland to the shore. Allow eight hours for a round-trip hike from El Zaíno, where horses can be hired at the trailhead 1 mile from el Zaíno Ranger Station.