http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Colombia , San Agustin en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:08:52 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:08:52 BST 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 http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-297269.html 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 o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-264816.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-229340.html Hi Everyone ....this is Laurel blogging... a first ....After Tys 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 MomentColombia is the only overland gateway to South America is assumed to have been the route travelled by the continen http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-218274.html San Agustin Cali Medellin Bogota Santa Marta TagangaColombia 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 ridg http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-206974.html 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 th http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-200863.html San Agustin is the selfproclaimed Archeological City of Colombia and indeed it is home to some very impressive preColumbian 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 Scottishrun hostel in the tranquil colonial town of Popayan for a rough adventure to in search of precolonial h http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-198076.html 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 g http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-174254.html Into the Unknown Monoliths and MiraclesnbspSouth America raquonbspColombia raquonbspSan Agustin By TheTouringTexanNovember 12th 2006Andrew 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 fr http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-140334.html 1st August 3rd AugustFinally 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 http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-79326.html If you believe my guide book then San Agustin and Tierradentro are one of the most important archaeological sites in South America. Well they better be because the bus ride to San Agustin consisted of over 4 hours being shaken in a minibus as the road to the town is still not paved. Tierradentro is another 7 hours of which 2 are again on dirt road and on the way back there are about 2 more hours o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-59668.html If you believe my guide book then San Agustin and Tierradentro are one of the most important archaeological sites in South America. Well they better be because the bus ride to San Agustin consisted of over 4 hours being shaken in a minibus as the road to the town is still not paved. Tierradentro is another 7 hours of which 2 are again on dirt road and on the way back there are about 2 more hours o http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/San-Agustin/blog-52781.html