Pandora Forests, El Peñón (Santander)
About this adventure
Dare to live a truly unique experience: we'll be your hosts in a karst paradise with caves everywhere you look, visiting the most striking ones and going deep inside them.
This trip offers something other plans don't: besides the Pandora Forests and their giant walls, which will remind you of the movie Avatar, we'll visit several caves. In one of them we do our specialty: a 20-meter rope descent into Los Carracos cave, followed by 30 minutes exploring inside.
Highlights: La Tronera cave (optional 170-meter rope descent), Cerro de Panamá (optional sunrise), Los Carracos cave, Caracol cave, Oro cave, rappelling into Los Carracos and the Pandora Forests.
Technical info:
Altitude: 2,500 m
Climate: cold
Hike level: 3.0 on average; all include steep ups and downs, but short (about 40 minutes)
Not recommended for people with obesity, breathing difficulties, children under 12, claustrophobia, vertigo or any condition that makes the activities hard. Over-12s only with parental consent.
Itinerary
- Friday · 7:00 p.m. meet at Estadio metro station, exit opposite Carrera 70
- Pandora Forests
- Rope descent and tour of Los Carracos cave
- Caracol cave and Oro cave
- Optional: sunrise at Cerro de Panamá and 170 m descent into La Tronera cave
- Return to Medellín
✓ What is included
- Round-trip ground transport from Medellín
- Local transfers by pickup truck
- All meals (3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 2 dinners)
- Shared, double or single lodging, subject to availability
- Local guides trained by SENA and certified for each route
- Adventure travel insurance
- Safety gear (helmet and headlamp)
- Entry to every cave listed
→ Requirements and gear
- Good physical condition and health
- Water
- A towel
- Waterproof boots, ideally rubber boots
- Comfortable clothes, ideally long sleeves and long pants
- Rain gear or a change of clothes (ideally waterproof jacket and pants)
- Sunscreen and a cap or hat
- Personal medication (tell us before the activity)
- Toiletries
- Cash for extra expenses
- A blanket and small pillow for the bus ride
