River tubing and a ride on la brujita, the motorized rail bike, deep in the jungle.
A private day trip swapping Cali's urban bustle for the rural town of San Cipriano, reached only by la brujita — a motorized bike that runs on old railroad tracks — followed by river tubing in the jungle's clear waters.
This is a private day trip with the undivided attention of your own guide throughout. San Cipriano is only reachable by la brujita, a genuinely unusual way to enter the rainforest, and the day includes real time floating and swimming in the river.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Round-trip pickup from your Cali hotel.
Ride the motorized bike on railroad tracks that's the only way into San Cipriano.
Float down San Cipriano's clear jungle river in an inner tube.
Take in the Pacific rainforest surroundings of this remote village.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private day trip swapping Cali's urban bustle for the rural town of San Cipriano, reached only by la brujita — a motorized bike that runs on old railroad tracks — followed by river tubing in the jungle's clear waters. This is a private day trip with the undivided attention of your own guide throughout. San Cipriano is only reachable by la brujita, a genuinely unusual way to enter the rainforest, and the day includes real time floating and swimming in the river.
San Cipriano sits deep in Colombia's Pacific rainforest region, in one of the rainiest corners of the country, and for most of its history the only way in was on foot along an old rail line. That changed decades ago when a local inventor rigged up simple wooden platforms on small steel wheels that could be rolled along the abandoned tracks — pushed along with a long pole, punted boat-style, with a pair of flip-flops doing double duty as the brake. Villagers nicknamed these contraptions "brujitas," or little witches, after the long broomstick-like poles used to drive them.
The brujita got its motor roughly a decade later, when someone had the idea of bolting a motorcycle onto the wooden cart: the bike's front wheel sits on the cart itself while its rear wheel runs directly on the rail, pushing the whole platform — benches, passengers, and all — down the line at a genuinely unusual clip. A standard brujita seats around five people, with a longer "stretch" version built to carry more. The rail bed itself is a leftover of the old freight line that once connected Cali to the Pacific port of Buenaventura; once regular freight service wound down, residents kept the tracks alive by turning them into San Cipriano's main road.
The village these tracks lead to lies within the broader Chocó bioregion on the Pacific slope of the Andes — one of the most biologically rich and consistently wet corridors on the continent — which is exactly why its river runs so clear even as rainforest closes in on both banks. Floating that stretch of water by inner tube, with the jungle canopy overhead and no road noise anywhere nearby, is as much a product of San Cipriano's isolation as the brujita ride required to get there in the first place.
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