Colombia (February-March 2018): Short hikes around Minca
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Minca is a village located 600m above the port city of Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast. The village itself is not particularly attractive, but it is surrounded by beautiful dense forests and coffee plantations with quiet trails and dust roads suitable for hiking. Most of the photos below were taken while hiking along these trails.
View over Santa Marta from Minca.
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Tiny avocados loved by birds.
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Hummingbirds.
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Couple of Tucans.
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Old stone trails (cleared out by local people) probably built by the same Tayrona people who built nearby Ciudad Perdida (Lost City) hundreds of years before Machu Pichu. These trails suggest that the entire region may have been covered by a network of trails connecting villages and cities (including the one referred today as Ciudad Perdida) and that much archeological work remains to be done.
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