This Graffiti tour & Former Landfill bundle-tour is in our opinion the best urban experience you can have in Medellin.

The first part is to visit the most touristy area in Medellin, the comuna 13, to learn about the confrontation between guerrillas, paramitary groups and the legal forces where we learn all about it through the street art.

This beautiful experience is even more enjoyable with all the information we provide during each graffiti and landmarks of the neighborhood.

And then our second stop is the former Landfill neighborhood that is called Moravia and it’s still a pretty virgin tourist-wise location so you can still have a much more genuine and authentic experience.

We’ll be accompanied by a couple of local guides that will be telling us all the history and stories of its evolution, as well as we will be interacting to the people involved in the social transformation.

If this is an experience you could be interested in then please keep reading our detailed tour description and we are sure you will like it even more.

Stop 1: Graffiti tour in Comuna 13

Our Graffiti Tour in Medellin in Comuna 13 is definitely a must do activity when you come to Medellin

The violent past, the beautiful present and the promising future of this district makes it a magical place and an unforgettable experience.

The street art throughout the whole neighborhood makes it more mind blowing knowing that most of them have a special meaning related to its history.

You get inside in one of those neighborhoods in Comuna 13, the most dangerous Comuna in Medellin only 18 years ago.

Outdoor Escalators in our Graffiti Tour in Medellin:

Comuna 13 is the place where the first non-touristy outdoor electrical escalators in the world were installed.

The escalators were opened in December of 2011 with a cost of 3,5 million dollars and was built to save more than 350 stairs in a very steep hill.

Besides the escalators that became one the biggest touristic attractions in Medellin, Comuna 13 is also one of the biggest street art district in Latin America.

More than 15 meaningful graffitis to learn about

Half of the neighborhood displays meaningful graffiti and you get the chance to learn all their meanings at this incredible Graffiti Tour in Medellin.

Throughout the walk in Comuna 13 we invite you to try the traditional ice cream from this area as well as to have an amazing single origin coffee.

And who knows if we are lucky we might find some of the artists responsible for this pieces of art.

In our walk you visit the view point, the new pathway full of graffiti and the slide built to honor a tragedy occurred in Comuna 13.

There is a particular monument that was built to honor all the children of Comuna 13 and we’ll use it to revive our inner children and have some fun.

We spend around 2.5 or 3 hours in Comuna 13 and then we continue to our fascinating second stop.

Stop 2: Former Landfill neighborhood

Different to what most of people could think they were actually having a good life and decent incomes living out of all the things that the trucks were dumping and we’ll be able to understand all of that from her own real stories.

Creative Experience in our Moravia Barrio Tour:

After talking with Marina we are now ready to start our creative experience, since this is a private tour you get to choose which activity you want to do, we have 4 options available to choose from:

• Artisanal Paper: Learn how to make artisanal paper with used paper and create beautiful pieces of paper that you can decorate for different occasions

• Transforming tires in art: with the guidance of an expert you will design a very unique plant pot using your creativity and imagination. Also, you will learn the steps to transform a tire into different pieces of art.

• Urban Garden: in this experience you get to learn how to plant different vegetables, fruits and herbal plants in limited spaces, you learn and participate in making a very efficient compost with the house organic waste and we drink a delicious and cold green juice made with some of the products grown in the garden.

• Dance Show: You will witness a private show of folkloric Colombian rhythms and if you are up to the challenge then why not get on your feet and learn how to dance with the performers.

All of these activities are super fun, very educational and the idea is that you can practice them at home, grow your own indoor plants, make your own beautiful paper, and transforming your old tire into something else.

Walking tour around Moravia

After this activity we start a stroll around the landmarks of the neighborhood accompanied and guided directly by our local guides.

We will make around 6 stops around the neighborhood, each of them very meaningful and coherent with the overall idea of this beautiful experience.

During this walking tour we get to know the neighborhood very well, we’ll see the schools, the first part built of the neighborhood and we’ll visit a cool map made with floor tiles by the students of the one of the schools.

Tourism with social purpose

One of the most fascinating characteristics of Moravia is the commitment of its social leaders to generate a type of tourism with social purpose since with just paying the fee of this tour you are already contributing to the school focused on inculcate the art to children of the community.

One of the main goals we had when we started MedellinDayTrips was to have the biggest and most positive impact in the communities we work with and that’s why this tour is so special since we can really see how the people are benefiting.

We’ve already given you a detailed description of our Graffiti tour & Former Landfill, but there’s more still to learn, and photos don’t do the experience justice, you’ll see for yourself when you join us!

In case you want to do each experience separatedly you can you just have to book the Graffiti or Former Landfill.

Ready for the urban experience of a lifetime? Just fill out the booking form and take theGraffiti tour & Former Landfill in Medellin with us.

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Please do not forget we give you a multi-trip discount as following:

Trips you make with us	Discount you get
2nd trip	5%
3 or more trips	10%

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