Lost City Treck

Trip Start Dec 14, 2007
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Trip End Nov 25, 2008


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Saturday, October 11, 2008

In Taganga we organised a six day treck to Cuidad Perdida (the Lost City). This was a really cool expierience. The Lost City is an archiological site deep in the mountanous jungle behind Taganga. We got a really good deal on the treck because the season was just ending, only about $150 per person. The weather was rainy, but predictable. It was clear every morning, and rained every day at about 1pm. This was okay because we would usually be done hiking by then. The accomadation was in hammocks at a farm house and set camps. The food was really good and it was carried by donkey not us. The guild also managed to score us and extra donkey to carry our bags most of the way up, so that was nice aswell.

The first day we rode for a couple hours in a jeep up into to a small town where we had lunch and then hiked for about 4 hours to our fist stop. We had a pretty steep climb up over a ridge common landscape
common landscape
 . The rain got us, because it was in the afternoon, and we got pretty muddy. Our first night we spend in hammocks around the pourch of a farm house.

Day two, we only hiked for about three hours, up and over another ridge to our second camp. The second camp was in a really nice area over looking a river. At night there were about a million fireflies in the fields around us.

Day three we had to hike a lot further. there was a long climb up a ridge and then up a vally with multipul river crossings. Finnaly we had to climb about 2000 steps from the river to the lost city. We also had to carry our stuff because the donkeys could not go up this part of the trail. It was a tough day, but not back breaking. It started raining just as we got to the Lost City itself. That night the weather cleared up and there was a full moon over the ruins.

We spend all of day four at the Lost City. It is a really cool site. There are hundered of retaining walls, platforms, and raised circles where the tyrona indians build their huts, there are stairs and stone paved trails between them. we toured a section of them that was rebuilt. The Colombian army keeps a small military presence at the site add another tucan to the tally
add another tucan to the tally
 . There are about twenty soldiers that are at the Lost City, and apparently about 60 more in positions in the surounding mountians. They are here mostly to give tourists peace of mind and keep a look out for cocoa fields that might try to spring up. All paramilitaries have been clear from the area a few years ago.

Day five we hiked all the way from the lost city to the farm house where we spend the first night. It was our longest day, but not too much harder because it was mostly downhill.

Day six, we hiked the last bit out, and then got a jeep back to Taganga.

This trip was really cool. We went with Magic Tours, and I would highly recomend them. The service, food, and accomadation were all great.
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