San Agustin Archaelogical Park featured in today's Bing frontpage!

[Marcela Colombia Travel Blog]

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Hi All! This is a short last minute post... I was reviewing my
Colombia Travel Blog's traffic charts and I realized that the most
sought after keyword today is "San Agustin Archaeological Park" and
the Top Hidden Colombia Destinations entry the most popular one,
which is strange, because what I usually get is tons of hits on the
topics of "safety in Colombia", Cartagena, Medellin, "Travel to
Colombia", etc...

Intrigued by that fact, I researched a little more and discovered
that today's Microsoft's search engine ( Bing) frontpage featured a
beautiful picture of one of San Agustin Archaeological Park's
statues! This is so amazing! One of the most well keeped secrets of
Colombia in an extremely high traffic page!!!! , as I have said before
the San Agustin Archaeological park is an amazing collection of
hundreds of impressive precolumbian head stones in a huge natural
area of southern Colombia , bigger than - for instance - the Machu
Picchu national park in Peru.

So I thought I'd take the opportunitty to give you some more details
on San Agustin archaeological park:

How to get to San Agustin Archaeological Park

The closest mayor town is Neiva south of Colombia. From Bogota you can
fly with Aires for about US$40 and get there in about 1 hour or, take
a bus from Bogota’s bus terminal and enjoy the 326 ks and 6 hours of
beautiful scenery. Once there, you need to take another bus, but this
time going to Pitalito (212 ks) and once there take a local bus (US
$0,5) or a taxi (US$3) to San Agustin. The bus from Bogota to Neiva
costs about US$15 and from Pitalito to San Agustin another US$10.
Entrance fees are: free for kids under, from 7 to 17 years old is COL
$5.000 (US$3) and COL$10.000 (US$6) for adults.

What to bring

It takes about 3 hours to complete the park circuit, so I recommend to
take with you:

- A day pack
- Plenty of water
- Sun screen and a hat
- Walking shoes and light clothes, the average temperature there is 18
centigrades.

What’s there

Apart from the main park – San Agustin – there are two more
archaeological sites closed by called Alto Lavapatas y el Bosque de
las Estatuas which you can also visit paying a little bit extra; and a
second one called Tierradentro located very closed to a town called La
Plata 126 ks from Neiva.

But that's not all… from Neiva you can also visit the amazing Tatacoa
desert too!

Abrazos,

Marcela
http://colombia-travel-marcela.blogspot.com/