Welcome To Amazon

Ancestral communities and natural attractions come to Leticia to visit the three borders, the monkeys, visit Puerto Nariño, see a pink Amazon dolphin.

Remember that before leaving the airport you must pay a tourist tax in Leticia that is worth 35 thousand pesos per person.

Take a boat to Santa Rosa Peru and visit one of its restaurants, this area is also known for its good cuisine, Brazil goes for the mere experience of crossing from one country to another and buying chocolates in the famous chocolate house, the usual , is to know the market, the pier, buy sandals, go to the viewpoint of the community to see the Amazon River.

Tabatinga, walking on the border with Brazil. Of course, a less urban plan half an hour from Leticia and on the border with this country is located wuayruru an indigenous maloca. Daytime walk through the jungle, seeing the monkeys.
At this time, walks through the jungle are possible in times of high water. This type of tour is usually done by canoe so that you have an idea of ​​the climate in the Amazon. December to March is winter and the waters are rising from April to May is when the rivers flood the jungle, from June to August the waters begin to recede and from September to November is the Amazonian summer, which is the best date to travel. There is no better date to the Amazon, you must travel in summer in times of flooded Jungle and always with rain.

Visiting a maloca at our top, the malocuairulu, welcomes us by the grandfather with whom we share pleasant moments of learning together with one of his grandchildren. The malocas are not only the home of family clans or communities, they are also places of knowledge and what is learned, in The city does not have that education or that way of thinking, the word is sacred, it is what maintains our lands, our territories, you may tell a lie, that lie can harm the world.

Parque Santander is the main park in Leticia, where the government entities, the church and the army converge, a very beautiful park, it is best known and visited for the show and riot of neotropical parrots.

Ethnographic Museum of the Banco de la República, this is a free admission museum and it is small, its significant sample rich in data and its exterior gardens, it is used for photos with a lot of information about the Amazon jungle.

Plaza de Mercado has everything special, its food.

Navigate the mightiest river in the world and, according to the latest measurement, also the longest after the Nile. From its source in Arequipa, Peru, of the 7,062 kilometers from Rio, only 116 cross the Colombian Amazonian trapeze to continue on its way through Brazil and flow
into in the Atlantic Ocean and see dolphins in the river.

Macedonia arrive by boat from Leticia, it is an attraction.

Ticul culture, the shaman of the maloca kayak, handicrafts, plant remedies, welcome dance, language songs, the culture of the collective, This is a community maloca, a space where families bring their handicrafts to be sold and to share their products with tourists. Traditions and cultures with the voluntary contributions left by tourists, the community maloca is maintained. Families also provide basic and very cheap lunches to visitors.

Walk through the community of Macedonia, they are gardens but not decorative, they are medicinal gardens, medicinal essence of this community, here everything heals, houses of some of the artisans, a flock of monkeys and in freedom before embarking on this trip to the Amazon, waiting for our boat from return the dolphins said goodbye to macedonia you can arrive by boat in the express transport that leaves every day from Leticia we just arrived from macedonia, handicrafts are very expensive and here they are practically giving away their work.

Mocagua at this station where the express line that comes from Leticia by boat to the indigenous reservation that is neighboring the Amacayaco National Natural Park leaves us.

Visit Mocagua and have a night experience in the jungle. This community has organized itself. During the last years, its population has aged, adapting it with accommodation, restaurants, local interpreters, the people of the Amazon are very friendly and Mocagua is a very calm, welcoming community with transformative stories. .

Macuchiga Foundation is just one of those stories of transformation, a daytime walk through the jungle to this center for the rescue and rehabilitation of Wild fauna receives animals confiscated by environmental authorities other times they welcome animals found in poor condition that they rehabilitate and help to readapt to the jungle by introducing The little by little the importance of this program is that Mokawa was a Hunter population now works jointly with national parks and even has organized community monitoring groups for preservation where they participate.

Puerto Nariño is a very beautiful and very touristic municipality, streets in perfect condition and without cars, artisanal fruit ice cream typical of the Amazon, handicraft shops, a one-hour walk to visit the washing reserve, a reserve of victories, accommodation in Puerto Nariño, the food is cheap. Lake Tarapoto, a complex of lagoons protected for being the cradle of pink and gray dolphin fish from the Amazon.

This is a freshwater lake that is part of the Loretoyaco River basin whose waters flow into the Amazon River, 116 kilometers of the river that correspond to us as Colombians.