El Fuerte Giant Ferns Tour

Giant Ferns Samaipata

Amboro Tours offers two days one night tours from the city of Santa Cruz to the giant ferns near Samaipata. These trips also may include a visit to El Fuerte and museum of this village.

El Fuerte Giant Ferns Tour

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- Itinerary: 2 Days 1 Night

2 Days 1 Night
El Fuerte Giant Ferns Tour

El Fuerte Giant Ferns Tour

2 Days 1 Night

From the city of Santa Cruz

1 Day

At 8:00 we meet at your place, and then go to Samaipata on a paved road, a trip of approximately 3 hours. There are 75 miles or 120 km from Santa Cruz which is approximately at 1,200 feet or 370 meters above sea level. Samaipata is approximately at 1600 meter above sea level.Once in the outskirts of Santa Cruz the contour of the highway to Samaipata begins to change from urban plains to a narrower highway that starts its way up bordering mountains on one side and the Pirai River on the other side, and the landscape changes to sandy rock and green mountains.

Please make sure you take with your original passport or any original identification document valid in Bolivia.

Samaipata Road Landscape

If we have nice weather and time we may stop at "Cuevas" in this place after a short walk of about 15 minutes we will encounter some waterfalls.

Cuevas Samaipata Tours

The entire highway until the town of Samaipata is paved except for some parts where the pavement has disappeared due to landslides or because many parts are under maintenance. We will stop in any places where the visitor wishes to take some photographs.

Samaipata has tempered climate during the day and it is a little cold during the night.

Samaipata Tours Main Plaza

Once in Samaipata we will first visit the museum or El Fuerte.

In the museum we will be able to appreciate different objects and ceramics that remain as a testimony of the different cultures that settled in the surroundings or from others sites of Bolivia.

Museum Samaipata Tours

The museum also has different pictures that explain the pass of the different cultures that left their signs on the famous carved rock known as “El Fuerte” (The Fortress) which is said to be the largest carved rock of the planet Earth. The museum has a small model of this rock.

Samaipta Tours Museum

We have lunch in Samaipata.

In the afternoon, we go to El Fuerte, the entrance to the secondary road that leads to fort is located 2.5 miles or 4 kilometres away from the town of Samaipata by the paved road to Santa Cruz. From this point we go up on a secondary unpaved road in the vehicle to the top of the mountain where El Fuerte is located and from where the footpath begins.

Once we are there, a specialised guide will accompany us during the long walk around the big carved rock, providing us with the explanations of the possible reasons for the carving made there, the strategic location that this place had in those days and the clash of different cultures that happened in this location for this reason. (Take a sweater)

Samaipta Tours El Fuerte

During the hike it is fascinating to wonder about the experiences lived by the different cultures that passed through this magnificent place.

Fuerte Samaipata Tours

When the tour of El Fuerte is over, we return to the town of Samaipata.

The driver will take you to your hosting place and he and you coordinate the time to pick you up for dinner.

2nd Day

After breakfast we pick you up to drive you towards "Cerro la Mina" .

This place is about 50 minutes from the town of Samaipata. If it raiining we may have to change the plan.

Once in Cerro La Mina. we start trekking a bit uphill to enter the forest of the Giant Ferns

Giant Ferns Samaipta

This forest is about 1900 meters on sea level.

Here you can find hundreds or thousand year old giant ferns and higher than 15 meters tall.

The trekking ove here is a bit hard amd dificult.

Because it is up and down small hils.

Giant Ferns Samaipata

All the circuit may take about 3 1/2 hours.

But if you fell that is too much for you after about one hour of walking we may return to the vehicle.

The long trails pass by some small streams. If you fell like doing the long trekking you need to be in an average to good physical condition.

The highest part is about 2000 meters on sea level with a great view of the valleys of Samaipata

When the tour of the Giant Ferns is over, we return in the same highway to samaipata and then to the city of Santa Cruz.

Once in the city we will leave you in your place.

End of our services. Thank you.

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Amboró Tours is the only original source of this Itinerary

Amboró Tours also offers shorter or longer tours to this destination.

Adverse climatologic conditions or social unrest can change the original itinerary.

Be prepared to protect yourself against cold (sweater) the sun (sun lotion, sunglasses, hat or cap, long-sleeved shirt, long trousers and others) and rain (impermeable clothes)

El Fuerte Giant Ferns Tour