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San Agustin Slideshow
San Agustin
Travel Blogs from San Agustin, Colombia
The Trip That Could´ve Been
This is a top pick! ... to be frisked... I just thought everyone, including women and children, was considered suspect in Colombia. The really amazing thing about San Agustin is that 90% of the statues are still underground. Apparently, the government must ...
The Motorcycle Diaries.
This is a top pick! ... felt when he was riding around South America with Che on their noisy 1939 Norton 500cc. Except I am here in Colombia with Anibal, a local from San Agustin. I am a passenger on his Kawasaki KB 125cc. We are driving up and down and left and right, on bumpy ...
Highland Hijinx
This is a top pick! ... for the bus back to Popayan, FOR 5 HOURS!!! Punctuality isn't a priority in the highlands. The next morning we headed out to San Agustin known as the Valley of the statues, where hundreds of rough hewn stone figures of men, animals and gods are dotted ...
Bus Travels And An Amazing Archeological Site.
This is a top pick! ... is a good couple of kilometers out of town with about 500 meters up a very steep hill. We walked, but would recommend taking a taxi, at least initially with packs or luggage. Footnote: San Agustin Archaeoligical Park is UNESCO World Heritage ...
Ancient Civilazations
This is a top pick! ... is known. Peter, Imar and Anna (all English) have all been bumping into me as I have traveled Colombia so we all wound up doing Saint Agustin together. The first day we took a jeep tour to check out some waterfalls, huge ...
Relaxing and Horseback Riding in San Agustin…
We took a 6 hour bus ride, rough roads and all, but a spectacular ride from Popayan to San Agustin. A jeep met us at the bus drop off point (the side of the road) and took us into town and eventually to our hostel. Our hostel, Casa del Sol Naciente, ...
Going home to County Colombia!
After our time in the market town of Otavalo our next stop was San Agustin, Colombia. 3 & ½ months in to our trip and we have found ourselves with ten days or so left to spare due to a cancelled jungle trip & leaving Peru a week ...
Horsing around in Colombia
... it" we uttered several times throughout the ride. Luckily, as it was consuming 3 days of our precious time in Colombia, it was. The region around San Agustin is well known (a case of "world famous" in Colombia, perhaps) for its pre-Columbian, pre-incan ...
carvings in stones...
headed to the small, but super friendly and lovely town of san agustin. it´s famous for it´s unusual ruins and temples and stone carvings. i met a cool couple from peru and mexico at the small, nice and very cheap hostel i stayed at. hit up the main ...
Fabian the guid for tierradentro is wonderful
... is very small. we went with a british student named dan whom we met at our hostel in popayan. we got to the ¨cruz de san andres¨ at around 430 in the afternoon. the bus dropped us off where there is a crossroads (hence the ¨cruz¨) and we ...
Colombians are so darn nice
... had an English-Spanish dictionary on the desk) and walked me to the nearest cajero automático (ATM). I paid for tomorrow's tour of San Agustin and surrounding areas in a jeep (about $15 for the whole day with guide) and her husband swung by on his ...
The middle of nowhere
So stayed in Popayan a couple of days before heading off to San Agustin. The bus ride was a nightmare, 6 hours of country lanes. I sat up front with the driver who looked like a young Al Pacino in his Scarface days. Eveything was going fine until we came ...
Anthropological diversion
We are running short on Colombia time, so we opted to visit Tierradentro instead of San Agustin after being influenced by the message board in our hostel in Popayan. The notes stated that not only is Tierradentro closer, it is relatively less touristy ...
Hot and Cold on the Statues
After the big sell on the jeep tour or horse tour by the agencies and not accepting the special price just for me of 25000 we decide just to head to the park of statues (must have another name can´t remember it though). However today i have no ...
San Agustin
... is similar to (but not as good as) a passionfruit. After that we catch a colectivo up to the main archeological site here in San Agustin. As soon as we arrive its a lot different to the ones we saw yesterday as there are actually other people ...
The Jeep Tour of San Agustín
... was a lot of fun. After my day at the Internet cafe today, we plan on doing the horseback tour of San Agustín and also the archeological park tomorrow. Hope eveyrone is doing well! Enjoy the big bang tonight and other fireworks ...
Andean Condor!
Last night I stayed at the Reserva Nacional Natural Puracé where the wind howled with a vengeance and the temperature was ffffrfrfrfrrrreeeezing! Brrrrrrrr... popsicle sticks! :) I woke up this morning at 5:15 with the intent to hike a bit to ...
the mysterious stone statues of San Agustin
... , Sarah and Simon. With our batteries suitably re-charged, we set out the following day to do what we'd travelled to San Agustin for: to see South America's biggest group of megalithic stone statues. Over 300 statues, tombs, bits of pottery, gold and ...
Colombia Photos- photos-photos!
Colombia is so gorgeous- San Agustin is perhaps the most beautiful place I have seen in South America thus far. The town is so small (population 2000) and the people are so friendly. I am in love!!! Here are loads of photos from ...
San Agustin
... go a distance of just over 100 k´s it took us nearly seven hours before we flagged down a pickup to take us to San Agustin town. In town we found a place to crash and the next day ventured out to see the famed archaeological statues of the ...
San Agustin
From Popayan I took the bus on to San Agustin, one of my favourite places in Colombia. In 2005 I stayed here for6 days and could have stayed longer. The place is blessed with many things - incredible natural beauty, from beautiful valleys to stunning ...
Popayan to San Agustin
... smooth paved road. Our bus drops us off at an intersection but there is a guy in a jeep waiting to take us the final 5km to San Agustin. He says he is from the Tourist Office and he takes us in there when we arrive in town. He´s full of ...
San Agustin
The bus ride to San Augustin was a lot smoother than the one to Bogota although it was proibably just as long. San Augustin is famous for some ancient stone statues so we decided to take a horse back tour of them. Never having been on a horse before ...
San Agustin
... Caribbean Coast is calling my name and it is a LONG road to Cartagena- so I will leave tomorrow morning. btw- San Agustin is best known in Colombian for the stone statues that are found throughout their lush mountains, dramatic canyons all ...
Indiginous Ruins in a Cowboy Town
... cool, if not a little strange. I'm not sure what they were all about, but they were the impetus for the visit to San Augustin. Anyways, I liked the ruins. But the best part about San Augustin was the horse to person ratio. In San ...
