Meeting: Bogota airport
Airport:   Bogota      
Transfer: Bogota   

Pick-up / Drop-off is included from El Dorado Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento International Airport, in Bogotá. Transfers from hotels in Bogotá are also possible for an extra fee (please inquire).

Tack:		McClellan saddles known in the eastern Llanos as tortoises and some cowboy chairs produced in Colombian factories will be used and available
Horses:		Colombian Creole horses, some with quarter-mile crosses, all the horses are born and bred in the savannas of the Llanos, fed with the native pastures
Pace:		Based on the experience -Walking 80%, trail and jog 15%, canter 5%. | Walk | Trot | Canter |
Level:		(2 to 4 out of 5)    Low Intermediate
Weight:		Max 200 lbs
Riders:		Min 4 riders	Max 15 riders

THE HATO BARLEY
A cattle ranch located between the towns of Tauramena and Maní, two hours from the city of Yopal, the capital of Casanare. For its savannas more than 350 horses gallop in semi-wild state, some of them are mounted once or twice a year for the work of the llanos. This place has an extensive livestock of more than six thousand heads of cattle.

In the horseback riding tours you can have the experience of going deep into the forests, passing through the wetlands, riding through the floodplain savannas, the canals and estuaries. We will find more then nine thousand hectares of the hato, observing white-tailed deer, chigüiros, alligators, picures, wild pigs and more than 200 species of birds - many of them easy to observe. In its lagoons artisanal fishing is done catching the “curito" fish which is rich in proteins and vitamins.

In this location throughout the year is ideal for walking and taking pictures of the fauna and beautiful landscapes in our photographic safari plans.

Also notable in this location is the Anaconda Guio (Eunectes murinus) which pairs in the month of March, felines, such as the puma or American lion, foxes, palm bears, among many other species.

Only twice a year you can participate in the called work of the llano, you can do it in the middle and end of the months of May and November. The dates are normally scheduled when the water comes in and out of the hato, this happens when summer season changes to rainy season or vice versa; the savannas are either flooded or dried, this is the reason the date varies in the different hatos.

The livestock is picked up by the cowboys daily and taken to the corral where they work with the cattle day by day. Some days they work with between six hundred and eight hundred head of cattle depending on how many hey collected in the extensive savannas. In the Hato Barley there is “Cimarrones” cattle-- these are wild cattle that have no iron because they hide in the bushes and have never gone through a corral.


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