The Global Meaningful Travel Map

Medellín: Moravia, Urban Recovery and Capoeira

Experience a transformed landfill turned flower garden, vibrant community projects, and Capoeira, fostering resilience and cultural connection.

OUR EXPERIENCES
Check out this video, created through a partnership between Tourism Cares, Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy and Collective Impulse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9HdIq12jQ

Visit a neighborhood, Moravia, that transformed from being Medellín's landfill into the city's biggest flower garden. This resilient place is home to impressive social projects that improve the quality of life for local residents. Your local guide will introduce you to the neighborhood. You’ll see El Morro, the landfill that is being transformed into a flower garden. You will learn about the process of environmental recovery and how the inhabitants of the neighborhood have built a new life here. Then you will visit the Moravia greenhouse, where a project led by women from the neighborhood called Coojardicom grows and sells plants from the region. Discover other parts of this neighborhood, interacting with locals, learning stories of resistance, and seeing urban art, community gardens and other cultural projects. In the neighborhood called Tropical Oasis, you will be received by the leaders of Mangle, a community project that uses Capoeira, a martial art originating in Brazil, as a form of expression and catharsis for the youth of the neighborhood who have grown up in the midst of poverty and violence. You will learn to connect your body with music, dance, joy and play with others.

ABOUT US
Impulse Travel - We create, operate and promote tours that allow travelers to discover the country from an authentic and local perspective through connecting with people. We are a team of creators, connectors and storytellers on a continuous journey of discovery. Our company develops around people: travelers, locals and the team that brings them closer. We believe that travel has the power to transform lives - our experiences facilitate meaningful interactions between travelers and locals, fostering empathy. Travelers are inspired, locals are empowered, and their projects find financial support, which is key to going forward.

OUR IMPACT
Impulse Travel partnered with Tourism Cares on a Meaningful Travel Summit with Colombia in November, 2021 and operated as our DMC for the program, bringing our attendees to a handful of local experiences represented on this Map. They were also recipients of a grant from Tourism Cares and Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy. ProColombia partnered with Tourism Cares on a Meaningful Travel Map in advance of the Tourism Cares with Colombia Meaningful Travel Summit in November, 2021. The pins on the Colombia Map represent community tourism experiences around the country, offered by receptive operators who design their tours for local impact, economic benefit for communities, and to reflect the richness of the experiences you can have traveling throughout Colombia. Their work, and the organizations they support, diffuse the economic benefits of tourism and support sustainable tourism growth in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Turismo Comunitario Map can be found on the ProColombia website: https://colombia.travel/en/tourism-cares

DETAILS
Please note: these community tourism experiences are offered by in-country operators. We marked the Map with the approximate location of the community experience.

To learn more, visit: https://colombia.travel/en/tourism-cares/moravia-urban-recovery-and-capoeira

Or email: info@impulsetravel.co

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