San Augustin, Colombia Travel Blogs

Highland Hijinx
Jun 15, 2005 (47 photos)

... a lovely sight. Then on to Ipiales to see the famous gothic cathdral built on a bridge over a deep gorge, amazing. Colombia has definately been our favourite country so far, the landscape is indescribably beautiful, the towns are really interesting and ...

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 ...

Das Pferd zum Wasser reiten
Jul 23, 2007

So, da bin ich wieder...muss leider am 01.07.07 raus aus Kolumbien da dann meine 60 Tage auf dem Visum um sind...werde aber wieder kommen und nich n bisserl campen glaube ich...dazu dann aber mehr...also habe ich in bogota den Bus nach hier genommen, hier ...

San Augustin
Jun 24, 2007 (6 photos)

Only pictures for now...I'll update it eventually.

San Augustin
Sep 9, 2007 (20 photos)

... Frauen oder Krokodile darstellten, sollten die Seelen der Toten beschuetzen. Da die Statuen ueber ein grosses Gebiet verteilt sind und San Augustin ausserdem wunderschoen ist, verbrachten wir drei Tage in der Region, um zu Fuss und mit dem Jeep die ...

Reiten
Jul 26, 2007

So, die pferdchen waren willig, meins mochte gottseifreud nur gallopp oder schritt, ich habe jezt lauter flohbisse am ganzem koerper und mich mal wieder rasiert :) Hehe, daniel... erm...ja, also erst gings runter in den canyon, dann ueber den rio ...

Stones, hills, statues
Jun 21, 2007 (5 photos)

... is eating up the miles easily but we thought we should have been there already. Here we are roaming around in the back country of Colombia with the odd chat with a local to make sure we are still on track. We are embarking on an adventure on roads that ...

Hungerstruck
Dec 9, 2008 (12 photos)

... credit cards in Popayan comfortably, had we changed the currency in Bogota before we left. But we didn't, so we arrived in San Augustin on a bank holiday Monday unable to change the euros and getting a very bad exchange rate for our dollars. This meant ...

San Augustin
Nov 14, 2007 (26 photos)

... was a long but pleasant bus journey from Bogota with snacks served, pillows and blankets dished out! When we finally arived in San Augustin we were tired and irritable but we went straight out in the search for uins. We walked through a nice area with ...

Hippie haven
Dec 27, 2006 (8 photos)

... thats what photos are for. And I took alot of those - I really hope some come out! Time just disappeared in San Augustín and relations with the hippies, while frosty at first, became increasingly cordial. Luckily, before I decided to renounce shoes and ...

San Augustín und Popayán
Nov 17, 2008 (17 photos)

... von einem Schweizer gefuehrt. Doch er lebt bereits seit knapp 20 Jahren dort und war mir sehr hilfreich fuer tolle Reisetipps... San Augustín ist bekannt fuer die Steinfiguren, welche uralt sind (300 v. Ch.). Man weiss jedoch nichts darueber, da niemals ...

Brief visit to San Augustin
Feb 26, 2008

After a 3 hr trip from Gartzon, I arrived in San Augustin...and checked into a cheap, shabby hotel in the centre. I hopped straight on to a bus to see the famous Parque Arqueologico, showing the sculptures and burial slabs of the San Augustin ...

San Augustin
Mar 23, 2007

San Augustin, ***, Friday 23rd-25th March, 2007. No Maccie D's or anything of the sort. San Augustin features as a highlight on many of the South American handbooks because it has a number of parks with monuments created by a mysterious pre-Colombian ...