“A day as a tourist guide”

Tourist guide: Wow!!! It´s a really hot weather day, It Will be really nice to get some clients to go
to some iced cap mountain

Tourist Tom: Good morning, sir, I’m looking for touristic services

Tourist guide: good morning to you, sir. Please take a seat and tell me exactly what do you want?

Tourist Tom: Thank you, very much, Colombians are so kind people

Tourist guide: off course, Would you like some water or something another drink?

Tourist Tom: Water is perfect for this weather, Thanks.

Tourist TALI: Hi

Tourist guide: Hello, how can i help you?

Tourist Tali: Thank you. Do you know who is selling tickets to “Murillo hot springs ”?

Tourist Tom: Excuse me, miss. I´m exactly going to that place. It´s amazing!!

Tourist guide: How it´s a possible!! Please come inside, and take a seat and take a cup of water.
And i Will explain you all the details.

Tourist tali: Oh my god!!! It´s incredible!

Tourist guide: Nice to meet you both, my name is Camilo. I’m from Bogotá but I’m living near to
the most beautiful place of Tolima, right now, I´m a guide tourist certified at SENA. In my company
“high mountain Colombia” has many years of experience bringing an excellent service in the
altruistic roots of this region.

Tourist tali: Thank you, very much for your personal information, I want to present too, so… My
name is Tali Aisha, I´m from Canada. I live alone. I don´t have a husband. I work as a teacher in my
country and every vacation I have travel to a different part of the world.

Tourist Tom: Thanks Martin, nice to meet you too, my name is Tom Holand and I´m British. I´m
employee of the U.K national bank I have traveling around the world, learning from different
cultures, histories and especially landscapes

Tourist guide: You´re very welcome to these lands. I´m happy to receive people some from far
countries.

Tourist tali: I love to visit the different cultures and especially museums to learn about his
costumers and idiosyncrasy. but I also like to know nature in its preserved state.

Tourist Tom: It´s unbelievable. You´re saying the same i think!!!

Tourist guide: Well, “Termales de Murillo” is just one hundred (100) kilometers from here. That´s
like two hours by bus. Please look this catalog with a special prices’ packs and itineraries. I
recommend the “sifon tour”, which includes places like a “Waterfall El sifon”, paramo and an
impressive viewpoint where you can see the "nevado del ruiz volcano".

Tourist Tom: there are many species of frailejones, such as the song by ernesto perez . Give me
more information about the tour, I'm interested

Tourist guide: All right!! We will leave very early from Bogotá to the Municipality of Murillo in
Tolima, along the way we will visit the municipality of Armero, where we will find a great historical
event of natural disasters that claimed the lives of many people and that to this day has been
remembered and blessed. We will observe houses under the ground, bank bunkers, tombs and
statues and plaques of gratitude. While we have breakfast, we can observe that there are local
artisans who in their plastic works recover the life of this town, then we will continue on our way
and once we reach Murillo, we will We will accommodate in the hotel and we will be able to take
photos of their beautiful houses.

please take this recommendation list and read it while we traveling. the elements that you don´t
have in this moment. You can buy them in the next step. 3:30

Tourist Tom: That´s very good!! I need to buy …(many or much) water bottle

Tourist tali: It´s really amazing how this small town was where this terrible natural disaster ended
and which has since been known as historical heritage.

Aushhh I can't imagine how many difficulties the inhabitants went through to try to survive or see
their family die.

Tourist Tom: I think too, I read the story of this event and i don't like to remember it.

Tourist guide: let´s go to the restaurant and We will have lunch and take a 2-hour walk to visit El
Silencio Waterfall and El Escondite Lagoon. We will return to the town to rest and prepare for our
great adventure.

Tourist Tom: I enjoy hiking while I see landscapes, is there bird watching?

Tourist tali: can I swim in the waterfall? I would like to take many photos there; I saw on Facebook
that it is a very large waterfall.

Tourist guide: Yes, there are many species of birds there, but the ones endemic to Tolima are
Anthocephala berlepschi, Atlapetes flaviceps and Oxypogon stubelii. And Tali, you can enter the
waterfall, but I recommend you not, because it is quite cold and the photos are blurred by the
wind.

Tourist tali: I'll take the risk!!!

Tourist guide: well…Very early we will have breakfast to leave by 4x4 car towards the Termales de
la Cabaña. Before enjoying the hot springs, we will visit the “los 7 Colores waterfall” and “Corazón
lagoon”. This path requires 2 hours of trekking, but I want to know beforehand, if you feel willing
to do moderate physical activity and endure sudden changes in weather, since sometimes it
usually rains a lot or there is a danger of falling. Does anyone have a disease or is taking any
medication?
Tourist Tom: no

Tourist tali: no, I have been training for more than 3 months

Tourist guide: ok, however, I will take a first aid kit.

Before to start this experience, we will take ten minutes to learn about how to use the trekking
equipment, these are the elements to use for a safe trekking and a better experience. This is the
lamp… first you have to verified if the lamp is enough charge of the batteries, please check in the
top if the bottom is on or off. This is a GPS, check the bottom of the advice if the red bottom is on
or off and the check in the screen your location, find the paths and follow the route. This is the
radio, please check the bottom and when you want to talk, you push this talk bottom. This is the
flashlight, check the bottom. And others like knife, route map, camera with spare batteries, multi-
purpose tool kit. I hope you have read during the course of the trip the recommendations on anti-
fluid clothing, high-top boots, coat, hat, gloves, balaclava, and sunscreen.

Tourist Tom: Of course, I brought spare clothes in case I get too wet and a towel, I kept it in a bag,
along with my snacks, although I also brought some shorts to bathe in the hot springs.

Tourist guide: let´s take the 4x4 car again to murillo, I hope you will enjoy that beautiful place, It´s
for rest and relaxing.

Tourist tali: ohhhh wow just what I need after this hard work.