Graffiti Tour - A Social Impact Tour

Exploring the neighborhood of Eqipto is a graffiti tour like non-other. Accompanied by our bilingual guide you’ll start this adventure with an introduction to two local guides that will show you around this zone some considerer too dangerous to enter.

You’ll stroll these streets learning the history of the people illustrated in these impressive graffiti murals. along with this, you'll also hear the stories of this small pocket of land, where cousins, nieces, nephews, brothers, and sisters fight and sometimes die for crossing the wrong street.

This is a tour where you will learn the good, the bad, the ugly, and 100% the truth of what real life is like for people with lower resources in Colombia. The two local guides will not just tell you the story of how four warring brothers divided this neighborhood amongst themselves, but they’ll also open up their homes, for you to understand the truly minimal resources they have to not just survive but also raise their children.

You’ll also learn how a small group of entrepreneurs from within this neighborhood have an idea to use tourism to climb out of the pits and the re-occurring circle which leads the children of this neighborhood to prison and/or early death.

As well as this, you’ll also discover a foundation created with the goal of helping people discover life outside of crime. A foundation including three separate, but equally important schools. The first is for children, which also provides two meals a day they would not receive at home. The second and third schools were created for the adults of this zone. A place where they will learn the skills needed to create products that can be sold to feed their families as an alternative to their previous lives of crime. In the woman’s school, they are taught how to weave with traditional methods, producing ponchos, mats, hats, and bracelets, amongst other products. And at the school for men, they craft the wood into small pieces of furniture, tools, and small souvenirs for travelers.

For many travelers, this is a life-changing experience where you truly understand how fortunate you are, and how many people have an extremely difficult life with their only sin being born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

What's included?

• Pickup and Drop-off from your accommodation
• Transport in private air-conditioned vehicle
• Entrance fees
• Bilingual Tour Guide

Exclusions

• Lunch, Meals, and drinks not mentioned in the plan
• Experiences and transportation not mentioned in the plan
• Personal expenses and tips

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