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The “Che” Guevara Route
Vallegrande and La Higuera
- Itinerary of 2 Days 1 Night (Private Transportation)
From the City of Santa Cruz
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2 Days 1 Night
1st Day
We pick you up from your hotel or home at 07:00 a.m. to go to the town of Vallegrande, located at 6,660 feet (2030 meters) above sea-level, a population of approximately 8,000 inhabitants in the urban zone and  approximately 27,000 if we include the bordering communities. Vallegrande is located 149 miles (240 meters) away from the city of Santa Cruz, and the trip to this population lasts approximately 6 hours.
This trip will be in an express vehicle 4x4. The highway that leads to Vallegrande is mostly paved; part of this highway borders the Piraí River, which can be appreciated from above in some parts, this highway goes through mountains. The landscape vegetation diminishes as we approach the population of Vallegrande.
Once in this town, we will meet a local tour guide with whom  we will proceed to the community of La Higuera.
This road is similar to the last part of the road from Santa Cruz to Vallegrande, because it borders the mountains, but with the difference that this road is dirt one and it is narrower. The peak altitude that we arrive is 9,200 feet (2800 meters) above sea level. We will stop whenever the visitor wishes to take some photos or to appreciate to the Andean Condor flying over the area.
In winter season some parts of the route from Vallegrande to La Higuera may become covered with nieblina specially the part from Pucara to La higuera.
Before La Higuera we will visit The Churo Creek, where “El Che” fought his last battle in total disadvantage, malnourished, without adequate clothing or boots (he made his own boots with some leather in disuse) and with his rifle was not working well
To get to this place we will have to do some trekking down a hill for about 1 1/2 hours. In this place the guide who accompanies us will tell us in details how this uneven battle took place and how “Che” was captured by the military and taken to the small village´s school of La Higuera, which at the time had more inhabitants than it does at the present time.
We will arrive to the population of La Higuera at approximately at 19:30 hours; this population is at 6,560 feet (2,000 meters) above sea level and is near the refuge that “Che” had in the nearby forest.
Over night in La Higuera.
2nd Day
After breakfast we will have a walk around the plaza, where we will be able to appreciate the paintings on the  house walls and monuments raised in honor of “Che”. We can ask the guide how many times a small monument was raised in middle of the town square and how many times the military came to destroy it.
We will visit the “El Che” museum, which is the place where El Che was killed. The guide will provide further explanation about the photos and objects in exhibition. Later, if time allows to, we will visit other places in the surroundings of
La Higuera where “El Che” was present.
We will return the same way that we arrived, stop at Vallegrande where we will visit the old laundry of the hospital where Ernesto “Che” Guevara was exposed to the press after having been brought in a helicopter from the town of La Higuera, where he was killed. We will also visit the  place where “Che” was buried next to his companions in battle.
We will leave our guide and continue to the city of Santa Cruz. It is advisable to drive through the part of the mountainous way during the day, due to the scarce signaling and the road conditions.
We will arrive at the city at evening or at night and leave you in your hotel or address.
End of our service. Thanks.
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Amboró Tours is the only original source of this Itinerary
Amboró Tours also offers longer tours to this destination.
Adverse climatologic conditions or social unrest can change the original itinerary.
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