Blogs from Ciudad Perdida, Santa Marta, Colombia, South America - page 4

English version below. Le lien vers les videos est en dessous du text. Videos link at the bottom of the text. Le dimanche on a pris un minibus pour aller a Taganga. Ce petit village dans la baie n'est pas exceptionnel mais tres touristique : nombreux centres de plongee, point de depart pour le trek de la ciudad perdida ou le parc tayrona. Le trek de la ciudad perdida etait vraiment super, 5 jours de marche entre les forets, et rivieres, piscines naturelles, les rencontres avec les indigenes qui vivent dans ce parc. Des apres midi pluvieuses a jouer aux cartes. Le groupe etait tres sympa. Un super moment. Le reste en photos et videos. Sorry but im a bit lazy. In a nut shell 6 days walking through the Sierra nevada a mountain range right ... read more

The Lost City of the local Tayrona people, situated deep in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, dates back around fifteen hundred years, but was only discovered as recently as 1975. Due to its isolated location, remotely located in the highest coastal mountain range in the world, the only way to get there is on a 5 or 6 day guided hike (or by helicopter if you have a lot of money to spend). All the agencies offering the tour are obliged to offer the same price, namely 500,000 Colombian Pesos (around £166). The prices are going up to 600,000 next month so I definitely went at the right time. I booked for the day after I arrived in Santa Marta, and was ready the following morning not quite sure what to expect. Our group consisted of ... read more

Despite my lack of money and VISA cards, I managed to get on the trek to Ciudad Perdida (the Lost City), thanks to a good travelling friend who acted as "sugar daddy", so much that I had to take him as hostage, as you can see in the pics ;o) Actually, about ten years ago this was a place full of guerillas, but it has been cleaned up and now you can every now and then see some militaries patrolling the grounds. The trek to Ciudad Perdida goes over five days in a tremendous landscape of some kind of jungle up to an altitude of 1300m. In short, the history of The Lost City was built and used by the Tayronas (indigenous people) and dates back to the 7th century. The civilization was destroyed by the ... read more

We left Hotel Miramar and travelled to Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in a converted jeep. After a good couple of hours or more we were dropped off by the jeep and were fed a decent lunch at the local ‘restaurant’, which seemed to be the last line of civilisation in the jungle. While we were getting acquainted with the guys who would be our fellow trekkers for the next five days, we were all wondering where the driver (whom we presumed was the guide) had gone. There were two Colombians in the front of the jeep. The driver who looked young fit and healthy. The passenger, complete with a barrel as a belly looked old, obese and unfit. As we sat looking around thinking ‘where did the driver go?’ We probably overlooked the ... read more

Good morning blog readers! Yes I know it's Monday morning about 8:30 for you guys, but honestly we do forget what day it is and it is purely a coincidence that we post our blogs on Sunday, honest. Well, perhaps not this one!!! This blog takes us from Venezuela, which we didn't like, to Santa Marta and the Lost City in Colombia, which was excellent. Hope you enjoy the trip! As usual, immigration at airports takes quite some time and our bags had seen a few laps of the conveyor by the time we arrived. We were soon approached by “changey money” vendors, which is not surprising and is unfortunately a must in Venezuela. Johnny became an immediate “friend” (or so he thought) and led us through the airport to the tourist information booth where a ... read more