Blogs from San Agustin, Colombia, South America - page 4

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 San Augustin was indeed beautiful but the road there was crap, they had to wait for 7 hours on route as there was a body on the road under investigation plus they think that's where ... read more

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 and scattered tribes left few enduring monuments - unlike the Aztecs and Incas who dominated vast regions further South. But we´d heard from Leanne that the underground Tombs and the Animist Statues of Tierrodentro & ... read more

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 draw back of having every street look the same, because thats what colonial towns do, I have set off for a place called San Agustin. This is known for artifacts of indiginous people predating the ... read more

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 km to San Agustin and the bus averaged 20 km/hour and took over 6 hours. It was a very rough road and went though beautiful alpine rain forest. We passed alot of cyclists. I said ... read more

Into the Unknown: Monoliths and Miracles South America » Colombia » San 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 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 o... read more