San Basilio de Palenque, UNESCO World Immaterial Heritage
Palenque was the first officially free town in the Americas. Boats loaded with Africans sailed the waters of Colombia's Magdalena River and, when one of them was shipwrecked, Domingo Benjos Biohó siezed the moment and escaped, along with several of his peers.
* Breakfast at Lodging
* Today we make the journey in our charter bus to Palenque.
* Learn how Bantú African languages and practices survived for over 400 years in a little far off town, 1 hour away from Cartagena (plus urban traffic).
*Enjoy typical food, (delicious lunch), music and get a language class of Lengua Palenquera which is only spoken by these over 3.000 people.