Travel Blog | About TravelBlog | World Facts | Travel Wallpaper | Travel Forum | Travel Insurance | Services | Cameras

San Agustin Travel Blogs

Background: Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swaths of the countryside are under guerrilla influence, the movement lacks the military strength or popular support necessary to overthrow the government. An anti-insurgent army of paramilitaries has grown to several thousand strong in recent years, challenging the insurgents for control of territory and the drug trade, and also the government's ability to exert its dominion over rural areas. While Bogota steps up efforts to reassert government control throughout the country, neighboring countries worry about the violence spilling over their borders.




Links: San Agustin Travel Blogs (21) | San Agustin Travel Photos | Map of San Agustin | Colombia Travel Forum | Hotels in San Agustin | Hostels in San Agustin | Cheap flights to San Agustin | San Agustin Map | Colombia Facts | Map of Colombia

Colombia

Colombia Location



Hostels in Colombia
Latest San Agustin Blog Entries
San Agustin Photos











« back 1 10 20 next »
San Agustin
San Agustin
Museo Arquelogico
Left Popayan early, Johnny the French dude is the last addition to our group of now 5. At the bus station we got swarmed by bus conductors wanting our fare, they were pushing and shoving each other, we went to the bus company that gave us the cheapest fare(16,000 pesos). We had a quick breakfast then hopped on to the collectivo van. Scenic windy road trip to rough gravel roads all of us but Johnny were at the back of the van and we felt every dibs on that freakin road. 3 1/2 hours later we got to the junction where [View Full Entry]

Viajerong Pinoy - GIL BRIONES | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
850 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 79 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 22nd 2009 | 115 Views | [diary=446184]

San Agustin
San Agustin
San Agustin

Hola again!!!! ok...so this is just a second part of our trip! We flew from Cartagena to Neiva and from there we went straight to San Augustin...I went there for the second time and still love it! the nature is just amazing...and of course we were lucky, cause we found this "Casa de Nelly" - imagine cabañas sorrounded with a botanical garden, animals and friendly people (like always in Colombia)...it was just perfect. First we planned to stay there for 2 days, but at the end we spent there 5days :) An why exactly did we go there on the first [View Full Entry]

Slovenian girl - Jana P | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
444 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 61 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 16th 2009 | 383 Views | [diary=444992]

San Augustin (9)
Salento, Cocora valley, the highest wax palm trees
little hummingbird :)

We have entered the Huila region of Colombia and have spent the last few days in Pitalito and San Agustin. We ended up in Pitalito because we would have had to wait for 9 hours to take a bus to San Agustin, and arrived in Pitalito at 1 o´clock in the morning on a bus full of the most sketchy people I have ever seen. We woke a cab driver waiting at the bus terminal who was sleeping in a cab with his wife. They took us to a bright, clean, wonderful hotel in Pitalito. Our plan was to leave the [View Full Entry]

Qymb - Kim and Dani | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
236 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 21 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 9th 2009 | 132 Views | [diary=416628]

Pitalito II
San Agustin
Dani and Lucas in Colombian Cowboy getup

Kolumbia to jak dotychczas w naszej podrozy moj ulubiony kraj. Po brudnym motlochu Ameryki Centralnej, tutaj spotkalo nas przyjemne zaskoczenie porzadkiem i absolutnie rozbrajajaco przyjazni ludzie. Nie da sie uchwycic na zdjeciach naturalnosci z jaka podchodza do nas Kolumbijczycy, jacy sa uprzejmi i pomocni. Trudno tez oddac zielonosc krajobrazu Kolumbii, bo gdzie sie nie spojrzy wokol wznosza sie absolutnie zadrzewione stoki gorskie, potoki i wodospady. A Bogota, to tez juz nie jakastam brudna stolica Ameryki Centralnej. To wielkie miasto pelna geba, tetniace nocnym zyciem, ze scena muz [View Full Entry]

nomuchaagua - No Mucha Agua | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
140 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 44 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: June 22nd 2009 | 55 Views | [diary=410580]

Photo 2
Photo 3
Photo 4

Day 733 (01.04.09) San Augustin is famed for it's archaeological sites where carved stone statues sit outside large grand tombs topped with huge slabs of stone. It takes a bottom-bruising 7 hours on a slow and bumpy bus to get here from Popayan and having woken up this morning feeling just about recovered from the previous day's journey we were ready to go out and explore. There are several sites around the area that can be visited by horse or jeep tours but you can also get to the Parque Arqueologico on the local bus which takes in a few sites. [View Full Entry]

mark and chrissie - Mark and Chrissie Hayward | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
286 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 19 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: April 28th 2009 | 232 Views | [diary=393772]

San Augustin
San Augustin
San Augustin

San Augustin was never on my initial itiniary but the fun thing about travelling and specifically travelling on your own is that you can make it up as you go along! I´d been having a really great time with Ilse and Miriam (who I meant in Salento) I decided I would catch an overnight bus with them to San Augustin and then fly from Popayan to Cartagena rather than do 2 overnight buses to Cartagena going back through Medellin. Ok so I am giving up on doing the sight seeing thing in Medellin but I hear there is not that much [View Full Entry]

Nikki77 - Red77 | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
547 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 9 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: March 4th 2009 | 169 Views | [diary=376253]

Photo 3
Who knows what these all are
Photo 5

This blog contains a short story about a very strange set of events that happened on our first night in San Agustin that managed to rattle Me, Jim and Jerry well into the night! It was nothing to do with the town or its people, it was more about our own fears enhanced by the world media and American gangster movies on Colombia. BACKGROUND ------------- Travelling through the South of Colombia and close to areas well known for FARC rebel activity managed to make me feel slightly nervous. You spend a lot of time on buses looking at all the weapons [View Full Entry]

Daz_Crawford - Darren | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
1707 Words | 5 Comment(s) | 8 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 27th 2008 | 272 Views | [diary=347957]

Colombian Army
Following Shake Down
Streets Of San Agustin

Statue
Statue
Bosque de las Estatuas, Parque Arqueologico
The RG's description of a 12 hour bus ride to reach San Agustin, punctuated by military and guerrilla roadblocks at which one might be relieved of money or other valuables, was as out of date as much of the information circulating about travel in Colombia. As I waited at Popayan bus station for my 6AM departure, I chanced upon the deaths/injuries board showing a tally for each of the transport companies and was pleased to see zeroes in all columns for Cootranshuila. 6.75 hours later, most of which was spent on a fairly horrendous pot-holed gravel road - though the green [View Full Entry]

Jabe - John McCabe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
758 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 41 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: November 21st 2008 | 394 Views | [diary=343289]

Leaves
Plant
Baby snack

Shaman, spiritual header
Shaman, spiritual header
An amazonian shaman in an spiritual workshop with Ayahuasca
GAIA - Spiritual Workshop for internal healing This workshop has been prepared for you as a spiritual experience, encountering the most valuable of indigenous cultures of South America's Amazonian Foothills: The ceremonial Ayahuasca in an environment guided by the wisdom of indigenous, surrounded of one of the most beautiful and archaeological places representing south americas: The Archaeological Park of San Agustin. (Declared by Unesco world heritage, 1995) We invite you to enjoy this beautiful opportunity for seven (7) days of adventure, indigenous ceremonies, encouraging a meeting w [View Full Entry]

traveller spirit - Johana Linares Forero | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
483 Words | 1 Comment(s) | 3 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: October 4th 2008 | 127 Views | [diary=330784]

Shaman offering Ayahuasca
The Maloka at San Agustin

San Agustin A small town way out in the middle of nowhere. We are here to check out some ancient burial grounds. San Agustin attracted a mysterious group of people who came here to bury their dead (3300 BC). They left behind hundreds of freestanding monumental statues carved in stone next to the tombs of tribal elders. It is a very beautiful area rolling hills, rivers and gorges. The first day we rented horses to go check out some of the tombs through out the country side. The second day we got a Jeep and a guide to take us out [View Full Entry]

Timbuk2 - Tim & Meagan Becker | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
145 Words | 0 Comment(s) | 74 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 14th 2008 | 232 Views | [diary=297269]

In a Tomb.
Big Bug!!!
Our transportation for a day.


« back 1 10 20 next »