Santa Marta & Tayrona National Park
Tayrona
This stunning marine and coastal park offers many great trails and nature walks and on a visit here you will find yourself hiking through the jungle and also on the coast before perhaps stopping at a pristine white beach for a break and for a swim. The enormous variety of flora and fauna on offer here, as well as its rich culture make it a must on any traveller’s list whilst in
Also, relatively nearby (and Foreign office advice permitting) you will also be rewarded if you go and find the Cuidad Perdida (The Lost City) which is high up in the mountains - is an ancient centre of a once upon a time great Tayrona culture. It was one of the largest pre-Colombian towns discovered in the
As well as full day visits to the lost city and to the wonderful beaches, you may also be interested in walking to Pueblito, which during the Tayrona period was an important centre for trading between the communities of the Sierra and those who lived by the sea. Although only one family live here now, there is plenty of evidence remaining from those who used to live here, for example, you can see the canal system, the aqueduct, a series of stone bridges and stairs which made their way down to the sea.
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