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ciudad perdida (the lost city!)

A travel blog entry by aaronvdb

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... also restricted until 2005. there are so many military officers here now it�s crazy. even along the road leading to the ciudad perdida there were so many military checkpoints. amazing, amazing time... could easily write more, but know i�ve written way ...

The Lost City and The Lost Underwear

A travel blog entry by ashifreeshma

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... as the Turcol office in Santa Marta, but the bonus is that you get a free T-shirt with the inscription..."estuve en Cuidad Perdida, Colombia" which is pretty cool. Taganga is also a much nicer place to spend your time than the big city of Santa ...

Ciudad Perdida - Flussdurchquerung f�r Profis

A travel blog entry by haeschendoktor

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... . Sie boten ihm allerdings einen Job an, n�mlich teilzunehmen an der offiziellen Expedition, die schlie�lich 1975 die Ciudad Perdida 'entdecken' sollte. Die Leitung der Expedition und der nacholgenden Ausgrabungen hatte sieben Jahre lang besagter ...

The found city

A travel blog entry by jled

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... are considered sacred. "On September 15, 2003, ELN kidnapped 8 foreign tourists that were visiting Ciudad Perdida, demanding government investigation of human rights abuses in exchange for their hostages. ELN released the last of ...

Lost City trek - Day 3

A travel blog entry by vamosbenhoran

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After a decent nights sleep in a bed with mattress we have a relaxed morning as there is only a smallish walk to the next camp today. Now that we are further inland the quality of breakfast has decreased a bit and we�re offered just heavily salted ...

Welcome to the jungle..

A travel blog entry by hjalmar

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... p� et hostel i Santa Marta og meldte meg p� jungeltur sammen med tyske Andreas. Turens m�l var the lost city of the tyronas, eller Ciudad Perdida, som ble oppdaget s� sent som i 1975, og har til da v�rt skjult av tett jungel. Byen var fra �r 700 ...

Staircase to Heaven - Die "Verlorene Stadt"

A travel blog entry by doscompletos

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... mich wohl geirrt..!" Ob die in den kommenden sechs Tagen nochmal mit Karin reden w�rde? Die ersten beiden Tage Richtung "Ciudad Perdida" verliefen ziemlich fies bergauf, aber relativ entspannt. Wir wanderten vier bis f�nf Stunden t�glich, die ...

Ciudad Perdida

A travel blog entry by itsbob21

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Began the six day trek through the sweltering jungle to enter the ruins of the Tayrona's ancient capitol that they abandoned shortly after the conquistadors arrived. It was never discovered by the Spaniards however as the people moved away and died out ...

Ciudad Perdida - Lost City Jungle Trek

A travel blog entry by kaz_and_tim

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... been waiting for. Another early start saw us walk along the river bank, gently climbing to the steps at the bottom of the Cuidad Perdida. There are supposed to be 1,200 of them but I don't think anyone was counting... They were very small and difficult to ...

The Lost City

A travel blog entry by gemma_doogal

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DAY1 - We got picked up from our hostel at 9 am in a really old four wheel drive jeep. The first hour of our journey was on a tarmac road, which passed through about five army checkpoints. The second hour was on a dirt road, for which I sat in the back ...

Lost City trek

A travel blog entry by witek

Great trek, although it's not quite the paradise Chapada Diamantina was for ...

6 day trek to the Lost City

A travel blog entry by clintonb

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... The vegetaton was dense and beautiful jungle. Its difficult to imagine how remote we would be in 4 days time when we reach Ciudad Perdida. We regulary went over waterfalls and walked alongside 100m drop offs along the way to our first came. We ...

Lost City trek - Ciudad Perdida!!

A travel blog entry by vamosbenhoran

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... of the site and its setting set it apart from Machu Picchu. I think Machu Picchu is probably my favourite of the two but Ciudad Perdida is not far behind. We are lucky that it is still hard to get here and only a handful of tourists get to ...

La Cit� Perdue... nous l'avons trouv�e!

A travel blog entry by ariane_atw

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La Ciudad Perdida est un impressionnant site archeologique constitu� de nombreuses terrasses � flanc de montagne. Situ�e dans la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, elle �tait probablement le centre politique et �conomique du peuple Tayrona dans la ...

The Lost City

A travel blog entry by christianfeu

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The journey to the Lost City and back

A travel blog entry by sarandphil

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... nbsp; Day four and today was the day to make the 5 river crossings before climbing the 1200 steps through the jungle to Cuidad Perdida. We were not dissapointed it was really beautiful and there was only another group who had been doing the same as us, a ...

Why bring a raincoat to a rainforest?

A travel blog entry by m-and-mp

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We booked a 5-day jungle trek to La Ciudad Perdida (the Lost City) at our hostel in Santa Marta. Five days, how hard can that be? We did the Kilimanjaro right! Well, the first day started with a stiff 3 hour uphill ...

Lost City trek - Day 1

A travel blog entry by vamosbenhoran

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We�re up at a reasonable time this morning. Normally for these tours its 5am starts and the like but thankfully for this one we are meeting at our hostel at 9am. We grab breakfast of fresh juice at a place beside us - even if food and coffee ...

Lost City trek - Day 2

A travel blog entry by vamosbenhoran

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... cocaine. Now that the area is under the control of the Colombian military production has moved to other areas. Colombia still produces half of the world�s cocaine though. A former cocaine farmer will take us through the demonstration of how ...

The Cocaine Factory

A travel blog entry by sara_minx

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... . Unfortunately now the Paramilitaries are stronger in a few urban areas, & very supportive of the drugs trade. On a more positive note,Colombia also (less famously) exports 50% of the world's emeralds, 20% of its oil, some copper, lots of coffee (2nd ...

5 dagen door de modder hiken!

A travel blog entry by martijn1978

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... Tayrona 10-14 januari 2011 Met mijn PADI op zak ging ik mijn tweede "uitdaging" tegemoet. Maandagochtend vertrok ik naar La Ciudad Perdida, oftewel The Lost City, in het Nederlands de Verloren Stad. Ik noem hier een paar varianten die allen hetzelfde ...

Jungle Boogie

A travel blog entry by supertramps

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... reasons we had to settle for tropical rainforest in the north of Colombia. We signed up for the six day trek to Ciudad Perdida (the lost city) without fully realizing what we were getting ourselves in for. It was definitely the toughest trek we have ...

From Tourist City to Lost City

A travel blog entry by rioluna

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... frame of mind, or whatever, perhaps I just didn�t get it. I didn�t, I don�t, It�s Over, Let�s move on... Ciudad Perdida Trek Magestical Beauty at Colombia�s "Lost City" Now this trek was cool! And seemingly off the tourist track (when ...

Ciudad Perdida

A travel blog entry by john.diana

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Never doing that again....

A travel blog entry by amberandryan

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... how did we get here? I'm gonna have to break it up into a few blogs to attempt to explain the last 9 days... first up... La Ciudad Perdida the lost city!! So as i mentioned before the trek consists of a 6 day 52 km hike straight up and down a mountainside ...

Bananas, cocaine, Marxists and death squads oh my!

A travel blog entry by chimichenga

... the company claimed they made the payments under threat and not to repress the company�s local workers here in northern Colombia. While the paramilitaries have for years demanded protection money from drivers, prostitutes, store ...

La Ciudad Perdida

A travel blog entry by hastaluego

... het kamp werd er voor ons gekookt en konden we uitrusten voor de volgende dag. Op dag 4 kwamen we aan bij la ciudad perdida.... prachtige platforms waar ooit veel goud was opgeborgen en waar de hutjes op stonden van de Tairona bevolking... Daarna ...

Ciudad Perdida II

A travel blog entry by chimichenga

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... ; I awoke with an even worse pain in my left knee as we departed Camp 2 and headed out on our final ascent to Ciudad Perdida. We�d be crossing several streams and have to make a few crossings over the Buritaca River that runs through the jungle ...

"You�re going to learn a lot about Colombia."

A travel blog entry by chimichenga

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... and besmirched, never dreading something so simple as walking in all my life. The beauty and mysticism of Ciudad Perdida and its surroundings were nothing short of breathtaking, but all was soon forgotten once the 20K ...

Ending our trekking adventures on a big high

A travel blog entry by watties

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Anyone who is into rain, mud, smelly clothes, more rain, insects bites and camping on archaeological sites we highly recommend this trek. Magic tours were amazing when we rang them at 7am to let them know that we could not make it as Bernie had half a ...

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ciudad perdida (the lost city!)

The Lost City and The Lost Underwear

Ciudad Perdida - Flussdurchquerung f�r Profis

The found city

Lost City trek - Day 3

Welcome to the jungle..

Staircase to Heaven - Die "Verlorene Stadt"

Ciudad Perdida

Ciudad Perdida - Lost City Jungle Trek

The Lost City

Lost City trek

6 day trek to the Lost City

Lost City trek - Ciudad Perdida!!

La Cit� Perdue... nous l'avons trouv�e!

The Lost City

The journey to the Lost City and back

Why bring a raincoat to a rainforest?

Lost City trek - Day 1

Lost City trek - Day 2

The Cocaine Factory

5 dagen door de modder hiken!

Jungle Boogie

From Tourist City to Lost City

Ciudad Perdida

Never doing that again....

Bananas, cocaine, Marxists and death squads oh my!

La Ciudad Perdida

Ciudad Perdida II

"You�re going to learn a lot about Colombia."

Ending our trekking adventures on a big high