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]

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Whilst in Ecuador I floated the idea that Adam could come with me to Colombia seeing as he didn't have much planned up until his flight from Quito to Peru, so I said why not kill the time with me and see a bit of Colombia to boot. The US government strongly advises its citizens against visiting Colombia as does ours, but for some reason us Brits just tend to take far less notice of any officials or politicians than they do. So while I was painting pictures of lovely people and countryside two Belgians arrived and told us that the [View Full Entry]

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Hola de nuevo, pues de Bogota nos bajamos a San Agustin, que es un lugar precioso y enigmatico ya que es aqui donde a principios del siglo encontraron unas explanadas llenas de tumbas y estatuas de piedra labradas, que son los guardianes de las tumbas. Lo enigmatico del lugar es que apenas se conoce nada de la cultura que construyo este lugar de enterramiento y estas estatuas que en algunos casos tienen mas de 3000 años de antiguedad. De San Agustin hemos bajado de nuevo a Ecuador, donde pasaremos la navidad en un balneario en Quito y luego volveremos a [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone ....this is Laurel blogging... a first .... After Ty´s birthday and Halloween in the city we flew Southwest from Bogota at 2500 M to the village of Popyan at a slighty warmer 1740 M. Our plan : to visit 2 of the 3 archaeological sites of Colombia. (A Documentary Moment) Colombia is the only overland gateway to South America & is assumed to have been the route travelled by the continents first human inhabitants coming from N. & Central America.....now we gringos continue to come from the north. The archaelogical sites of Colombia arent particulary well known - small [View Full Entry]

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San Agustin - Cali - Medellin - Bogota - Santa Marta (Taganga) Colombia is awesome! The landscape is stunning, the people are so friendly and well, they just seem to have a bit of everything! We started our trip in colombia convincing the bus people to sell us a ticket to travel the lesser known route to San Agustin (ie. the local route!). It was basically driving in a bus along a very fine ridge that was situated very high along a mountain side in the colombian rainforest. An awesome view, however a little frightening at times, like when the bus [View Full Entry]

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The story so far..... I will simply say that Colombia is a must do for any travellers in SA, forget the crap you read on dangers etc, it no worse than any other country. A lot of this negative hipe seems to come from US media, which firstly being US media, will have little impartiality and is also intended to deter US citizens from visiting the country. This is definitely obvious, compared with the amount of USAers in Equador, and is a welcome change! So anyway, after a night or 2 in Popayan, a beautiful colonial era town, with the unfortuneate [View Full Entry]

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San Agustin is the self-proclaimed Archeological City of Colombia and indeed it is home to some very impressive pre-Columbian tombs and statues, but in this case it was getting to San Agustin where the real excitement lay. On Wednesday morning Mark and I left the safety of the brand new Scottish-run hostel in the tranquil colonial town of Popayan for a rough adventure to in search of pre-colonial history. The next 7 hours was a hair-raising, heart-racing, bowel-loosening adventure on what can safely be described as the worst road i have ever travelled on. I mean i have travelled on earth [View Full Entry]

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We caught a taxi to the bus station just on the outskirts of Popayan to go to San Agustin. We had no trouble getting a ticket for the 11 am bus. However when the bus arrived, it was full and with no language we did not know what was going on. I asked the conductor twice and there was alot of hand waving a words and still we did not know what was going on. Lots of other people were trying to get on as well. Eventually another bus came along and promptly filled that up. The bus trip was 120 [View Full Entry]

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Into the Unknown: Monoliths and Miracles South America » Colombia » San Agustin By TheTouringTexan November 12th 2006 Andrew Stone Husmann After determining that safe passage was reasonably attainable, I headed into the primarily guerrilla controlled southeast of Colombia to see the giant statues of San Augustin. The statues, reminiscent of Easter Island, range in size from a few feet to over 25, and are a mystery, as no one knows who built them, or why. British archaelogists who discovered them only 90 years ago determined that the indigenous people there are not descended from those who built them. They also took about 700 [View Full Entry]

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1st August- 3rd August Finally crossing into Columbia had come too soon! strange to realise that i have been travelling for 5 months already! my longest travels so far! It was the journey from hell!!! Quito- border (Tulcan): 6 hours border crossing (1 bus, 2 taxis): 2 hours Ipiales- Papayan (8 hours) waited 4 hours for connecting bus papayan- San Augustin (8 hours)- on the worst bus ride ever! bumpy as hell, and having to sit in the aisle as seats were sold out!!! arrrggghhh!!!! San Augustin was nothing special as a town, but lay as a base to discover the [View Full Entry]

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