This spellbinding lost city in Colombia is centuries older than Machu Picchu and almost completely crowd-free

[Judi Lynn]

1. More views of Ciudad Perdida, Colombia:

Lost City Trek, Colombia Guide – Visiting Ciudad Perdida and the Sierra Nevada

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A guide to everything you need to know to complete the Lost City Trek in Colombia and how to get to the Ciudad Perdida archaeological site.

La Ciudad Perdida (Spanish for ‘Lost City’) is an ancient archaeological site perched within northern Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountain region, built by the Tayrona people and dating to approximately 800 AD – older than Machu Picchu.

Long forgotten, nature covered it for centuries, but with the help of archaeologists and the blessing of local indigenous people who today protect their ancestral site, around 10% of it has been uncovered and made open for those who make the pilgrimage here on the Lost City trek.

Getting there was an expedition into the world’s second-largest biodiversity system and a passage through the heartland of Colombia’s oldest indigenous communities.

One-third of the 30,000 square kilometres of the UNESCO reserved biosphere of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is a National Park open for exploration, where a path has been roughly carved through the wilderness to lead you to a hidden city and the central axis of a lost civilisation.

More:
https://www.bordersofadventure.com/lost-city-trek-colombia-ciudad-perdida/





More photos of Colombia's Lost City:

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