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Lost in the lost city

Posted by AndyPandy | 5th December 2007

One of most talked about places to visit in South America is the Machu Pichu ruins in Peru, but of a city of the same scale with only a fraction of the visitors (and it is believed to have been founded about 800 A.D., some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu) exists just a 3 day trek into the Siera Nevada jungle in northern Colombia. Rather inventively named Cuidad Perdida - the lost city as it was only discovered in 1972 when a gang of local treasure looters stumbled across the steps.
The hike itself involves some pretty hard climbs up mountainous valleys, but the views on the way and the thought of jumping into the river at the end of each day keep you going.

Luckily we had good weather unlike other groups who were up to their knees in mud and sliding back down the hills as fast as they were climbing them.
After about 5 hours of walking a day you arrive at the surprisingly developed refuge (where someone had ac

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