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Private Tour - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Living to tell the tale

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Destination: Cartagena, Cartagena District, Colombia
Duration: 4 hours
Price: $150.00
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Interactive Tour about  the work and life of the Colombian Nobel Prize, with which you will be able to know the most important sections on the life of the writer, to know the main works of Magical Realism and to know stories that will welcome you to the Macondo's Land where you can listen, read and feel anecdotes that could be your own. Cartagena de Indias magic colonial city, place full of tales of pirates, battles, loves and fantasies, will host this immersive adventure through streets, squares, parks buildings and scenes where every corner has a story to tell, accompanied by an expert Guide in the work of Macondo, we will trace the route that will lead us to understand who would be one of the most important writers of universal literature of the 20th century.

Our Tour lasts approximately 4 hours where you choose the time of departure between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm, Unlike other usual tours, our tour starts from your hotel and then go through some places that the writer Gabriel García Marques includes in his novels, reports and stories where we will see the main characteristics of the life of Gabo and we will locate the bibliographical references of writings like: "One Hundred Yeas of Solitude", "The Autumn of the Patriarch", "The General in his Labyrinth", "Living To Tell Of Tell", "Of the Love and other Demons", "Love in the time of the Cholera" etc. We will walk through the Old City, and we will cross the Cartagena Extramural that will take us to know neighborhoods like: Manga, Pie de la Popa and Gethsemane, During the whole tour we will see the sunrise and sunset of Gabo's life, from its beginnings, its misfortunes, to its successes and achievements, we will see both unreal and imaginary places as important historical places as the university where he studied, the places where he worked And to the place where  now lie their remains, Inclusions: Transportation with air conditioning, professional bilingual guide, snack and tickets to travel monuments