Los Haitises All One: Kayaking, Hiking, Boat, and Swimming

Description

Los Haitises All In One is an Escape from the city to immerse yourself between the historical and capital of Los Haitises Sabana de la Mar. Come with us and enjoy the fresh waters of one of the unexplored beaches of Los Haitises National Park, where San Lorenzo Bay is located.

The place is accessible by boat, surrounded by rainforest and mangrove forests. While you are navigating to Los Haitises you will get in contact with nature and the unforgettable landscape of this park. This tour will be a mix of kayaking, boating, visiting one cave, and swimming in one of the most important national parks in the country, here is the majority of the Biodiversity of the island, and the second largest mangrove forest with more than 98 km2.

Our local and expert staff will make sure you really get to know the Taino’s culture, their history in Los Haitises, and their connection with nature. This tour is in ecotourism mode where the community gets to play a very important role, they are guides, Capitan boats, and drivers.

This Excursion starts from a meeting point you must confirm with our travel Agents or your Tour Guide before heading to any location. Once you meet your guide you’ll have a debrief of the tour and everything related to your day.

When everyone is ready we will head to the first location which is the Los Haitises Trail where you will have a 30-minute hike, during the hike we`ll see different species of endemic plants and birds.

After hiking we get back to the boat and ride to Playita Las Almejas where natural pools are, while we navigate through the mangrove forest and coat of San Lorenzo Bay we will share with you stories about Los Haitises, Geology and go over the mangroves species with having around San Lorenzo Bay.

As we arrive get your swimsuit ready to go on your kayak and paddle to the Cave of the line with your tour guide, the rest of the staff will wait for you until you finish the first part of the activity.

During this part of your trip, you will be able to go around the Old Las Perlas Port which is one of the first structures built by Europeans in the area, about 1876, and this was connected with a train line that was the transportation for the coffee, bananas and everything this group of European was farming in what is today Los Haitises.

In the cave you will visit there are more than 1200 pictographs painted by the Tainos, this was a way to express themselves, and today this art tells us stories we never thought we would find nowadays. On the way back from that área we will show you a few species of mangroves and talk about the importance of the mangrove forest for the ecology as an ecosystem.

When we finish kayaking and swimming then we will have a break to have some local lunch. After lunch and some swimming at Los Haitises National Park we head back to meeting point, excursion ends in the same place as it started.