San Augustin - E

San Augustin

Von Popayan nach San Augustin

SAN AGUSTIN

San Agustin is recognized as the Arqueological Capital in Colombia, this is a quiet place, you can go there from Pitalito (40 min) or from Popayan (4.30 h) by bus.

We got the second one because we came from Ecuador and Ipiales. The road was built in the middle of a National Park (mas informaciòn del parque aquì), there is no concrete there and if you are lucky, you can see the landscape, we enjoyed the beauty of this humid jungle but we were not able to photograph because our driver went too fast.

In San Agustin you will find a really quiet and clean village, there are two tourist offices, some hotels and hostels and depending on the time you arrive, people will be offering different tours, like jeep tours to show important scenery, horses to ride to different places where you will see many different statues of many different types, some of them look like animals some like humans or a mixture of both.  It is a special place, the statues are 3000-6000 years old. It is not necessary to be an archaeologist to feel the energy and enjoy the history of these magnificent statues.

The tours by jeep go to the river Maddalena, to family operated sugarcane factory, to the biggest waterfall in the surounding and to smaller archaeological parks you cannot reach by foot easily.

Taganga - E

TAGANGA

To reach Taganga you will need to arrive in Santa Marta, the big city and then you will travel by bus or car for 40 minutes, then you will arrive in Taganga. Taganga is a neighborhood of Santa Marta.

In Santa Marta you can take a bus from the market and  you will arrive in Taganga, it is one of the neighbouring towns of Santa Marta and it has a village ambience.

From here you can organize tours: diving, tramping and other activities. Tairona park is very popular and worth a visit.

The village has only a main street where you can find restaurants, tourism agencies and on the street lot of handycrafts.

there are different possibilities of where you can stay, small hotels, hostels for backpackers, luxury hotels, camping sites or if you enjoy sleeping under the stars you can hire a hammock and still be able to use the bathroom and the kitchen facilities,  We got a cheap hostel with a bathroom a fan and the possibility to use the kitchen.

In Taganga you can find people from all over the world at any time, for this reason you won’t have problems communicating because there will be a pot pouri of languages being spoken.

Night time in Taganga is very interesting, there are bars and restaurants with shows and street artists thoughout the whole week.