La Carbonera and Thermal Machin Volcano

Salento

TERMINALS OF THE MACHIN VOLCANO. It begins by having breakfast at 6:00 am and we begin the tour of the National Road, explaining to the tourist, that on this road they traveled to Bogotá and Popayán, very important people of the time such as the Liberator Simón Bolívar in 1830, Scientists, military, foreign visitors such as José Celestino Mutis (1783, Botanical Expedition), the wise Francisco José de Caldas, Alejandro von Humboldt (1801), among others and other members of the patriotic and realistic troops. Over time this road and its surroundings became a rich reef of botanical and geological investigations of all kinds, also being part of the Salentina culture. We visit La Carbonera, which is an environmental interpretation farm, we continue towards the wax palm forest, where we can see thousands of the tallest palms in the world. We continue through landscapes and natural viewpoints until reaching Toche, a corregimiento stopped in time, where the population is mostly peasants and use horses and donkeys as a means of transport to transport milk, food from high slopes to the corregimiento ; We share lunch with a peasant family and finally, they relax at the Machín hot springs, which are little explored by man.