Aracataca Day Trip

If you're a Gabriel García Márquez fan, our Aracataca Day Trip is perfect for you. You'll travel to the author's hometown and explore the places that inspired him to create 'Macondo', the fictional town in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Aracataca Day Trip

Quotes from Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude highlight its importance in 20th-century literature. We will pick you up from your hotel in Santa Marta at 8 am and then travel to Aracataca, the inspiration for this landmark novel.

After a 90-minute drive, we will arrive in Aracataca. García Márquez, a Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1982, drew inspiration from his hometown to create Macondo, the setting for much of One Hundred Years of Solitude, representing a literary universe in magical realism.

Our tour will start at Telegrapher's House, which contains copies of García Márquez's works and is a World Heritage Site. We will also visit the author's birthplace and San José Church, where he was baptized.

During the tour, we will explore other significant sites in Aracataca related to García Márquez, including the school he attended and the Remedios the Beauty Municipal Library.

At the end of the tour, we will return to your hotel in Santa Marta, expected arrival around 4 pm.