Iguaque Lake

According to Muisca legend, this is the birthplace of mankind, where the goddess Bachué emerged with a baby boy. When he grew up, they had children that populated the earth, and they then turned into serpents and returned to the lake. No fishing, swimming, or rock throwing allowed.

Villa de Leyva and Iguaque Lake

June 29th 2016
Flying from Medellín to Bogotá took 31 minutes, as opposed to 9 hours by bus. The next morning I took a 3-hour minibus (it should have only been 2; we drove around Bogotá for an hour trying to find more passengers) to Tunja (which looked like an interesting small city with hiking options in the hills), and then another hour to Villa de Leyva, touted as one of the prettiest towns in Colombia. I ... read more

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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... ... read more

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