Ride Colombia like a cowgirl, not a tourist. From December 2-5, 2025 join The Cowgirl Hacienda Retreat. Four days of real ranch life, cattle, and trail dust that tells its own story. Only five saddles left and the Early Bird rate rides off on November 1.
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Forget guided trail loops and crowded photo ops. The Cowgirl Experience is the real thing: four days of living, working, and riding with Colombian vaqueros on active cattle ranches.
Each sunrise begins with the smell of strong coffee and leather. By afternoon, you’re driving cattle through open fields, crossing rivers, or exploring beneath sun kissed skies. Evenings end with laughter, food, and the kind of silence only horses and mountains know.
This isn’t about checking a box on a bucket list.
It’s about remembering who you are when the dust rises and the noise fades.
Every ride has meaning, every mile has a story.
✅ Real ranch work — not a tourist loop
✅ Local horsemen and vaqueros as your guides
✅ Rustic, authentic hacienda lodging
✅ Only 6 riders per trip — small, safe, personal
✅ All meals, horses, and gear included
You land in Pereira. Bilingual guides meet you at arrivals and handle the drive to the ranch.
By afternoon you ride. Open pasture. Cattle moving. Buffalo watching. Your horse sure under you. Evening brings a fire, a hot meal, and the soft breath of horses outside your window.
Met at the airport. In the saddle by afternoon. Firelight and horses by night.
Coffee steams. Leather creaks. You choose the day’s direction with your guides.
Maybe sugarcane fields and long loping stretches. Maybe the pasture crew needs hands.
You count cattle, hold a line, keep the herd together. The land decides the story.
Coffee, choices, real work. You ride with purpose.
Sun up. A cow needs doctoring. You ride to her with the vaqueros and learn why sound stock matters.
Or the call is for a gather across rolling hills. Dust rises. Horse and rider move as one. You finish tired and proud. Supper tastes better after work like this.
Doctor, gather, drive. Honest work and a clean kind of tired.
One last ride to feel the rhythm again. Hoofbeats. Wind in the grass.
Breakfast is shared. Goodbyes feel like see-you-laters.
Guides take you back to Pereira Airport. You carry home more than photos.
Final ride. Warm send-off. Airport transfer included.

Early Bird Price:
💰 $1,299 per rider
(Includes horses, tack, bilingual guides, meals, ranch lodging, and airport transfers from Pereira [PEI].)
Group Size:
6 riders maximum.
Not Included:
Flights, travel insurance, alcohol, or personal expenses.
Four days. Six saddles. One story you’ll never forget.
Ride, work, and live alongside real Colombian vaqueros on working ranches.
The trip was fantastic! It was such an awesome adventure. If you want to ride with somebody fun, ride with Mark and Jessie at Cross Country Equine.
I fucking LOVED it!!!
It was worth every penny.
I’ve ridden in a dozen countries. Nothing felt this real. We weren’t tourists. We were part of the crew.
You don’t just ride here. You work, laugh, and live with the vaqueros. I left with new friends and a new sense of who I am.
he horses were steady, the food incredible, and the connection with Colombia’s people… unforgettable.
Four days. Six riders. One story you’ll carry forever.
Early Bird pricing ends November 1 at 11:59 PM Pacific — then the gate closes.
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