Former Landfill Tour: From a Garbage Dump to an Oasis in Medellin
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This is by far the most amazing urban experience in Medellin, you will love it!
How often do you have the chance to visit a neighborhood that not long ago was a landfill with people living in and around?
Doing this tour you get to visit the Moravia neighborhood which experienced a big transformation from what was the city’s main landfill between 1977 and 1984 a place that was informally occupied by displaced families who improvisedly built their homes in the neighborhood to find a place in the city.
You are about to have the most memorable urban experience in Medellin as well as you are helping to make this small piece of the world a better place.
Moravia Barrio Tour Itinerary:
After picking you up we will head to Moravia, a 20-minute drive from El Poblado. Once there, it all starts with a warm greeting from our local guides Karen and Sandra.
After the introduction, we begin with an in-depth telling of the neighborhood’s history and transformation as we look at where the landfill used to be and compare it with some pictures of how it used to look in the past. Tour participants can witness what an incredible change has taken place!
We continue to visit a Moravia old-time resident’s house, and in her words she will tell us amazing stories about her experience when she was a kid and how was her life living so close to a garbage disposal site, how this benefited her and her family as well as the whole community around the landfill.
Unlike what most of people would think, they were actually lived happy lives and earned enough to sustain their families by collecting trash in the landfill. We’ll be able to understand all of that from her own real stories.
Creative Experience in our Moravia Barrio Tour:
After talking to Marina, we will be ready to start our creative experience. Since this is a private tour you can choose which activity you want to do from four options:
- Artisanal Paper: Learn how to make artisanal paper with recycled paper and create beautiful pieces of paper that you can use as decoration 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 car tire into different pieces of art.
- Urban Garden: In this experience you will 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 you will drink a delicious and cold green vegetable juice made with some of the products grown in the garden.
- Dance Show: You will attend a dance 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 transform your old car tires into something new.
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 to present you with a complete picture of life in the neighborhood.
During this walking tour we get to know the neighborhood well, we 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. With just paying the fee for this tour you are already contributing to the school focused on inculcate 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 Moravia Barrio Tour in Medellin, but there’s more still to learn, and photos don’t do the experience justice. You’ll see for yourself when you join us!
Ready for the urban experience of a lifetime? Just fill out the booking form and take the Moravia Barrio Tour in Medellin with us.
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| Trips you make with us | Discount you get |
| 2nd trip | 5% |
| 3 or more trips | 10% |
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Nickolas Del Pego –
I had the pleasure of Sara and Sandra providing a tour of Moravia. Sandra’s daughter, Alejandra, and mother, pictured above, gave their first hand accounts of how their town had transformed from the local dump to a growing and vibrant part of the city. It was a great way to learn about the people, their ability to overcome struggles, and their adaptability. I’m always amazed at how the people of Colombia find a way to take what they have and turn it into something more. This tour is a fantastic way to learn and participate in a local community and to get a feel for what the people of Colombia and Medellin are about. Best, Nick