Highlights:
- Explore the ruins of an ancient Prehispanic City known as the Lost City Teyuna, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, declared by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve of Man and Humanity.
- Enjoy a fantastic 5 days trekking through the forest in the world’s highest mountain on the shores of the sea.
Tour details:
- Duration of the trip: 5 days. Keep in mind that you have to arrive to Santa Marta the day before to the expedition and that you surely want to stay another day in the Santa Marta town, we can recommend a hotel.
If you are a VERY FIT you could do it in 4 days; If you are JUST FIT, you can do it in 5 days. Check here our 4-day program just for very fit people, people who have done it in 4 days have arrived very tired and some with knee injuries.
- Level of effort: “VOLCANO” (4 on a scale of 1 to 5) See Levels…
- Comfort level: between 2 and 3 on a scale of 1 to 5. See Levels… It is a remote territory with very basic tourist facilities: cabins and hammocks, communal bathrooms, camping-style food, prepared by our cooks in the camps. We will spend 4 nights in cabins or hammocks in mountain camps.
- Trekking time: Up to 7 hours crossing the jungle
- Distance: 9 to 18 km each day
- Ecosystem: Rain forest
- Climate:hot, extremely humid, with a temperature between 25 ° C and 35 ° C and a relative humidity between 80% and 90%. The rainy season is between May and November of each year.
- Elevation above sea level: 100 – 1.122 meters above sea level (m.a.s.l)
- Location: Lost City It rises between 900 and 1,200 meters high, on the foothills of Cerro Correa, in the northern part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the Department of Magdalena, on the right bank of the Buritaca River
The Archaeological Park Teyuna, also known as “Lost City”, home of the Tayrona people, the most monumental pre-Columbian civilization of the country, is located in this sierra.
This magnificent sierra, with its snow-covered summits, is the tallest coastal mountain in the world. It also has the two highest peaks in Colombia.
At present, nearly 30.000 Indians from the Kogi, Arhuaco, Kakuamo and Wiwa cultures live here. The Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta was declared by Unesco as a Reserve of Biosphere, Man and Humankind in 1979.
Ciudad Perdida (Spanish for “Lost City”) is the archaeological site of an ancient city. It is believed to have been founded about 800 AD, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu. This location is also known as Buritaca and the Native Americans call it Teyuna.
Ciudad Perdida was discovered in 1972, when a group of local treasure looters found a series of stone steps rising up the mountainside and followed them to an abandoned city which they named “Green Hell” or “Wide Set”. When gold figurines and ceramic urns from this city began to appear in the local black market, authorities revealed the site in 1975.
Ciudad Perdida consists of a series of 169 terraces carved into the mountainside, a net of tiled roads and several small circular plazas. The entrance can only be accessed by a climb up some 1,200 stone steps through dense jungle.
