Travel Blog Photos from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (97)
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... route no longer being used was due to guerrilla activity back then (taking food from the group etc). This region of the Sierra Nevada (highest coastal mountain in the world at 5,775m and 26 miles from the beach) is now controlled by the paramilitary ...
... grain of truth buried in there somewhere. In 1525 the Spanish landed at what is now the city of Santa Marta, their first landing in what is now Colombia. They encountered indigenous people - the Tayrona - whom they noted had a lot of gold ...
These pictures are from my trek into the Colombian jungle to visit Cuidad Perdida. Along the trail I ventured into the Kogui village of Mutamyi, where a majority of these photos came from. Cuidad Perdida was discovered in 1975 by a father and son in ...
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