San Agustin, Colombia Travel Blogs

The Trip That Could´ve Been
Mar 7, 2007 (14 photos)

... 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 first& ...

The Motorcycle Diaries.
Feb 8, 2005 (20 photos)

... 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 and ...

Highland Hijinx
Jun 15, 2005 (47 photos)

... 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 ...

Ancient Civilazations
Aug 29, 2007 (35 photos)

... 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 gorges ...

Going home to County Colombia!
May 21, 2009

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 earlier ...

Horsing around in Colombia
Nov 2, 2009 (22 photos)

... 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 ...

Fabian the guid for tierradentro is wonderful
Aug 23, 2006 (6 photos)

... , 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 hiked the ...

Colombians are so darn nice
Jul 2, 2008

... 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
Jan 22, 2006 (5 photos)

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
May 5, 2009 (4 photos)

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 than ...

Hot and Cold on the Statues
Jul 21, 2009

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 energy ...

San Agustin
Jun 24, 2007 (17 photos)

got up real early hoping to catch the 8am bus to san agustin (a UNESCO world heritage site and home to the largest group of pre-columbian religious monuments and megalithic sculptures on the continent). we got to the terminal 5 minutes late and had to wait ...

San Agustin
Sep 13, 2007

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The Jeep Tour of San Agustín
Jul 2, 2008

... 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 displays!

Andean Condor!
Aug 8, 2008

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 ...

San Agustin
Sep 25, 2007

San Agustin, Colombia.

Colombia Photos- photos-photos!
Aug 8, 2008 (56 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
May 31, 2008 (11 photos)

... 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 area. ...

San Agustin
Jan 21, 2009 (8 photos)

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 ...

San Agustin
Dec 1, 2007 (15 photos)

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
Aug 9, 2008 (96 photos)

... 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
Nov 16, 2007 (14 photos)

... 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 ...

san agustin
Jun 7, 2006 (16 photos)

an Achaeological site with tombstones and stone statues of people and creatures!

How many types of Transport
Jul 20, 2009

The route from tierra dentro to san augustin is not particularly complex but is still more of a arse that i need today as i am not feeling tippy toppy.  However out of san andres we grab the 7:30 collectivo (jeep come truck) to la plata (3.5 hours).& ...

San Augustine
Oct 8, 2009 (21 photos)

... here will not come close to doing it justice.  A park created to showcase the incredible statues carved by the San Augustine culture thousands and thousands of years ago.  This culture were obsessed with death and the after life and created ...

Marvelling at Pre-Colombus Colombia
Apr 22, 2007 (38 photos)

... the possibility of hiring a guide between us the following day to show us around the park. The Archeological Park in San Agustin contains over a hundred carved stone sculptures, some dating from over three thousand three hundred years ago. Little is ...

San Agustin
Apr 27, 2007

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Back to Popyan
Sep 16, 2007

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The Farm
Feb 20, 2007 (57 photos)

... the four of us went on a four-hour horseback tour of the surrounding area of San Agustin. San Agustin is known as the archaeological center of Colombia, with hundreds of sites and ruins scattered around the hillside. We saw some really interesting sites, ...

Photos from Ecuador!
Aug 8, 2008 (39 photos)

Here are loads of photos from Ecuador that I haven´t yet posted!