The Best Places to Elope in Santa Marta and Tayrona
Where the highest coastal mountains on earth pour jungle straight into the Caribbean: boulder-strewn beaches, palm coves, and the oldest surviving city in Colombia. Wild, ancient, and utterly unlike Cartagena.
You think of a Colombian Caribbean elopement as colonial Cartagena.
Down the coast, the jungle-clad mountains pour straight into the sea in a national park like nowhere else.
Santa Marta and Tayrona are the wild, ancient answer to Cartagena, where the highest coastal mountains on earth meet the Caribbean.
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Tayrona is where the jungle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta drops to the Caribbean: golden beaches strewn with giant granite boulders, palm-fringed coves like Cabo San Juan, and dense rainforest full of wildlife. It is one of the most dramatic meetings of jungle and sea in the Americas.
Tayrona National Park
Tayrona is where the jungle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta drops to the Caribbean: golden beaches strewn with giant granite boulders, palm-fringed coves like Cabo San Juan, and dense rainforest full of wildlife. It is one of the most dramatic meetings of jungle and sea in the Americas.
Santa Marta and the Sierra
Santa Marta is the oldest surviving city in Colombia, a laid-back colonial port beneath the mountains, and the Sierra Nevada rises from the coast to snow-capped peaks, home to indigenous communities descended from the ancient Tayrona. It is history, jungle, and sea in one place.
The right spot depends on the wildness you want. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, coordinate the ceremony and the park access, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Tayrona is the wildest Caribbean elopement in Colombia.
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