General Information
- Category: All day tours
- Modality: Landing tours
- Duration: 9 hrs
- Departure time: 08.00 hrs
- Tour guide: Yes
- Children are allowed: Yes
- Languages spoken: Spanish, English and French
Program Details
Jeep Safari "Nature Tour to La Gran Piedra-Baconao"
Baconao is located at an altitude of 1 meter above sea level. It is a place of significant beauty where you can enjoy the contrast between the water and the surrounding mountains. Its flora includes various types of mountain forests, as well as coastal forests, gallery forests, pine forests and dry forests. In the Baconao Reserve there are some 1,800 identified plant species.
La Gran Piedra, an enormous volcanic breccia rock, 51 meters long and 25 to 30 meters wide, with an estimated weight of 63,000 tons, is located on top of a mountain at 1,225 meters above sea level. Natural viewpoint from where the Sierra Maestra can be observed.
The legends of its origin include versions that attribute its formation to the impact of a meteorite that fell millions of years ago in the aforementioned eastern territory, although the most truthful is the one that considers its birth due to the explosion of an underwater volcano. It is currently considered a National Monument.
Details of your trip:
- Departure by jeep from the Hotel at 8:30 hrs.
- Panoramic drive along the Baconao road.
- You will enjoy the 14km ascent to La Gran Piedra.
- Visit to the Bird of Paradise Garden.
- Ascent to La Gran Piedra viewpoint. You will have to climb 459 steps enjoying the different types of ferns, listening to the birds singing and always accompanied by the Calysto Sybilla butterfly.
- Visit the museum La Isabelica.
- Enjoy a Creole lunch.
- Return by Jeep to the hotels.
TIPS: • Light clothing, confortables shoes, swimwear, sunglasses, cap, solar protection and photographic camera.
• Minimum pax for the tour: 3 Pax.
• This tour operates with a minimum of passengers. Holiadventure will reconfirm 48 hours before the departure of your tour. If the provider decides to cancel, for not meeting the minimum required amount of passengers, Holiadventure will offer an alternative tour or fully refund cost of your trip.
• The collected may be delayed up to 15 minutes depending on the number of hotels and punctuality of customers. Customer should be informed on sales desk to avoid disagreements.
• The Jeep must be shared with other tourist (4 pax / jeep).
• Those who wish to drive must bring the driving licence.
• The jeeps have Standard Transmission.