Accessible Companion: La Popa & Old Town

OVERVIEW

This excursion is for guests that use a cane/walker, have limited mobility issues or for companions of those guest that have booked mobility equipment tour.

Those guests that are fully dependent on their mobility device please book: CTG_A2 ACCESSIBLE Mobility Equipment- La Popa & Old Town.

Tour includes step-free routes, shorter distances and no stairs. Accessible restrooms with wide doors for wheelchairs are present along the tour route. Vehicles are adapted with an access ramp (or lift where available) to accommodate a limited number of wheelchairs and/or mobility scooters. Guides are not allowed to push wheelchairs; therefore, guests needing special assistance must be accompanied by an able-bodied.

Enjoy an immensely scenic driving tour of Cartagena with stops along the way for a closer look at the landmarks. While traveling through the affluent Manga neighborhood, you will see an abundance of historical Republican-style mansions. Still, few views rival the one you will be afforded from atop La Popa, the city’s highest point and the site of the 17th-century convent Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de la Popa. You will also pause at San Felipe de Barajas fort, an even older architectural treasure, before continuing on to the walled Old Town. It offers a wonderfully atmospheric setting to walk or roll, depending on your capabilities. Old Town is full of leafy plazas, including one named for Simon Bolivar, the revered leader that liberated Latin America from Spanish rule. You will also have the chance to explore the colonial San Pedro Claver Church and browse the shops now housed in a collection of former military dungeons.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Admire Cartagena’s most historically important attractions while driving through town.
• Take in the sweeping views from atop La Popa, Cartagena’s highest point.
• Walk or roll through the colonial Old Town and shop in a series of former dungeons.

HELPFUL HINTS

• Dress in weather-appropriate clothing.