Activities in Santa Marta
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Santa Marta's tour market mainly revolves around Ciudad Perdida.
In pre-Columbian times, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast was home to various indigenous communities, of which the Tayronas were the dominant and most developed group. The Tayronas are believed to have evolved into a distinctive culture since about the 5th century AD. A millennium later, shortly before the Spaniards came, the Tayronas had developed into an outstanding civilization, based on a complex social and political organization and advanced engineering.
The Tayronas lived on the northern slopes of the Sierra Nevada where they constructed hundreds of settlements, all of a very simil…
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Hiking
There's some good hiking around Santa Marta, including walks in the Parque Nacional Tayrona, though if you're after some longer and more adventurous trekking, the hike to Ciudad Perdida is the region's showpiece.
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Atlantic Divers
Atlantic Divers is in the city center. A four-day PADI-certification course costs COP$550,000.
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