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Santa Marta, Pereira and Salento

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 I had a tight iteanary and managed to spent very little time in these cities . But these are worth exploring for couple of days Salento Salento was my first stop before starting the trek in Los Nevados national park. It is nice little colourful town . I reached here after a long bus journey from Medellin . Reached at late evening and there was a fisco at the hotel , they given me a wrong key and I was pretty much locked out. Walked around the town center…

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Trekking in Salento Area

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 Valle de Cocora to Finca La Argentina Length: 9.9km Alt. start: 2,400m Alt. end: 3,400m Departure: 8am Lunch: El Bosque I met my guide at Salento around 8:00 am to be ready to leave by 8:30 am and hop on a Willys Jeep for the 12km drive to Valle de Cocora where our Trek starts. Valle de Cocora is a natural cloud forest and home of the Colombian national tree Palma de Cera. This giant wax palm tree, the tallest in the world growing up to 65 meters, was near extinction…

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Bogota

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 Bogota was my last stop in Columbia before flying out. My flight from Santa Marta arrived mid morning . I had to pay little extra for early check in . Latter in the afternoon I booked a city tour to cycle around Bogota and learl some of the fascinating history. We rode bike to traditional food markets, a coffee factory, the bullfighting stadium, the Central Cemetery, the historical center and through Bogota's many plazas, parks, and neighborhoods.                    …

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Medellin & Guatape

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 I arrived Medelline pretty late in the evening . The hotel was modest but comfortable . Took a taxi and reached at the hotel and went to sleep. Next morning I had booked the trip to Guatape. Guatape is one of those post card perfect place which is hard to miss. We stopped at a small town enroute and had our breakfast then we were dropped at El Penol with some free time and option to climb the rock. It has 740 steps and $6 ticket per…

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Read more about the article Lost City Trek – LA CIUDAD PERDIDA

Lost City Trek – LA CIUDAD PERDIDA

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴   Day 1 I was picked up from my hotel and was driven to the company office to pay up the dues and after that it was long and bumpy ride to starting point of El Mamey town . This drive took about 3.5 hours. We then had our lunch at El Mamey. From El Mamey hiking starts , it was about 4 - 5 hour hiking to Adam Camp . The evening was spent in chit-chatting with group . There was a good dinner in the evening and…

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