The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta has been described as the world’s most important concentration of endangered wildlife on the planet. It's also home to one of South America's most extraordinary archaeological sites, called the Ciudad Perdida (“Lost City”), essentially Colombia’s Machu Picchu. Believed to date back to the ninth century (making them 650 years older than the legendary citadel of the Incas), they're undeniably scenic and fascinating, but also much harder to reach - a grueling five- to six-day hike from the start of the trail east of Tayrona at El Mamey to Teyona, as the locals call the former settlement, a series of small plazas and over 160 terraces cut into the mountainside, with new ones still being uncovered from dense jungle. It's a trek recommendable only with an experienced guide.
Read more in our post Colombia´s Terrific Tayrona National Park and ´Lost City´.
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