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Free booking and cancellationFree payment tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free
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Hi 👋 I'm Juan, Cali local, born and raised here. Tourism is: something I love to do, something I am good at, and something I can make a job out of. That's why I have found a vocation in it. My tours keep growing, expanding, innovating, always a project-under-construction. They're never finished as I keep improving them with the experience every traveller brings. I speak superb english, native spanish, fluent portuguese, and some french. Thanks for considering me to show you my hometown. Welcome to Cali!
Back in the first half of the 1900's cuban music was getting super popular in the US as vacationers went to and from the island and would spread the word about their caribbean rythms. Guajira, Chachachá, Danzón, Cuban Son, Son Montuno, Guaracha, Pachanga, Mambo, Rumba, Bolero... are only some of the myriad of rythms that existed (and exist) in Cuba in the beggining of the century. Americans were having a feast with the island, enjoying all it's beauties, until...
The 1960's come with the cuban revolution, the Castro brothers, the USSR, communism, cold war, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the embargo.
And suddenly... nobody wants (or can) anything to do with the island.
With the influx of cubans and general latin immigration to the US of the middle of the century, many of them to cities like New York, some of them musicians, and as an answer to big bands and Jazz bands of the time, they mix all those cuban rythms (already popular in all the continent) and re-brand them under the name:
¡SALSA!
Which in spanish literally means: sauce. And just like what is is in food: a mix of all unique ingredients, all different to each other, that together make something much bigger than they would accomplish on their own...
Want to know more?
This is my propposal to discover SALSA in my hometown, for many, Salsa capital of the world. How and why is salsa so important here? Where to dance it? How to dance it? How to PLAY it? A multisensorial tour with music, history, steps, instruments and of course...
🕺 SALSA 💃
Outside the Subway Sandwich Store. I usually wear my pink CALI CULTURAL TOURS cap.
Plaza in honor to an iconic salsa band with some of the biggest hits in our culture.
Iconic place in Cali to understand what salsa means to the city.
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).
