Raft On River ''De La Vieja'' From Quindio

Información

This relaxing tour of the Rio de La Vieja, runs through calm waters by rural areas, surrounded by ancient trees that sit by the river bank. This route is approximately 18 kilometers downhill.
This is where nature lovers can have direct contact with the water, as the region offers great nature tourism and adventure, rafting down the river.
The rafts (champalas, as they were called Indians) refer to the traditional means of transport used by the Indians who inhabited this area, Quimbayas, before the Conquest. They carried food and people.
Legend has it that many years ago there was a beautiful Indian queen Guacamarintia to which the Indians offered gold items: bracelets, necklaces, ribbons.
One day, Spanish men took away the belongings and threw the woman's body to the river waters. Painfully Indians went to the neighbouring tribes and built rafts to browse for Guacamarintia. After several days, they found her body full of wrinkles in Piedras de Moler. So the river was named ''the river of our old'', better known as the Old River.
The tour includes rafting in small bamboo boats, hiking to waterfalls, guidance in Spanish

Meeting/pick-up point: Hotel Lobby.
Duration: 7 hours.
Start/opening time: Monday to Sunday 9am.
Languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.