Your Vive La Salsa team meets you at the airport and gets you settled into your Colombian-owned hotel. Once everyone is checked in to the hotel, you'll receive your official Vive La Salsa welcome gift.

For those ready to explore, we suggest you explore San Antonio. ​

Arrivals will happen all day, so take the time to relax, we have a lot on board for you in the coming week. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

We start the morning with breakfast and a visit to the Museo de la Salsa, a labour of love that tells the full story of how this city fell in love with a genre. After lunch, you'll take a Salsa Caleña class with world-class instructors before the night takes over.

This evening we head to El Mulato Cabaret for Agua'e'Lulo night and we're not just going, we have VIP Palco seats. Appetisers and drinks are included. 

Get a hearty breakfast before we dive into one of the most memorable mornings of the trip: a hands-on Afro Percussion Music Workshop paired with a Viche tasting, the ancestral distilled spirit of Colombia's Pacific Coast, made by Afro-Colombian communities for centuries. You won't just be taught the rhythm, you will learn what it carries.​After lunch, we move into an Afro-Pacifc Dance class that brings everything together.

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Then tonight it begins. We enter the  Petronio Álvarez Pacific Music Festival on Opening Night.​ After the festival, we suggest an early night. We have an adventurous day tomorrow!​

Visit to the Museo Pioneros de la Salsa Caleña before lunch. In the afternoon, a Salsa class to keep your feet sharp.

Tonight we return to Petronio for the full festival experience, with music, dancing and food vendors. 

Straigt from the festifal to the streets! Calle del Sabor, where the streets of Cali come alive with dancers , music and procussion. If you have not been convinced about Cali yet, this is the night that changes people.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Breakfast before we spend the morning up the mountain at Cristo Rey, the iconic hilltop statue with a panoramic view over the entire city of Cali. We'll stop for lunch along the way.  In the afternoon, we explore the beautiful neighbourhood of San Antonio and you have a free afternoon to spend at your own pace.

Tonight is our Farewell Dinner together. Then one final return to Petronio for the Closing Night and the grand finale artist. 

​​​​​Welcome Lunch, the moment the group truly becomes a group. By the end of this meal, strangers are already becoming friends.​​​​

After breakfast, our partner guide Dee, leads us on a City Tour through the neighbourhoods, radio stations, and cultural landmarks that gave Cali its soul. We visit the Museo de Jairo Valera and stop for lunch of Colombian Pacific cuisine.

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Tonight we head to the legendary La Topa Tolundra for a salsa social.

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We leave very early with breakfast en route to the Pacific port city and hometown of your daily guide Dee, Buenaventura.  We board a small boat and head into open water, where every August, humpback whales migrate through these channels. There are no crowds here, no tourist convoys. Just your group on the Pacific as one of the largest creatures on earth surfaces beside the boat.

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Lunch is on the coast of Colombia, fresh seafood, ocean air, nowhere else you need to be. We make our way back to Cali as the sun goes down.​​​​​​

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​A Salsa class in the afternoon to keep your body moving 

Back to Petronio for the International Artists night, when the stage opens to performers from around the world. 

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We close the night with an optional salsa social (we're in Cali, we sleep when we get on the plane home). ​​​​

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Departures and airport drop-offs throughout the day.

Cali has a way of getting into people. Don't be surprised if you're already planning to come back before the plane takes off.​

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As they say "Cali es Cali, lo demás es loma"

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