From Popayan, a nice historic city in southern Colombia, I travelled east crossing the Sierra los Coconucos. To both sides of the road, vegetation was as dense as a wall.
It was very misty and the cloud forest looked pretty misterious.
No surprise that this strange landscape is inhabited by strange animals, too.
Even some of the public transport vehicles here looked unusual.
On the eastern side of the mountains, I arrived in another beautiful region, famous for its coffee ...
... but even more well-known as Colombia's main archeological site: San Agustín. The flagship remains of the ancient and mysterious culture of this place are huge stone statues and tombs.
I found some of the common household objects like pots, grinders, etc. (some of which are 3000 years old), that are on display in the site's great little museum, very interesting, too.
A few hour's drive north of San Agustín's cool, rainy and green landscape, ...
... I entered the Desierto de Tatacoa.
This tiny desert is famous for observing the stars. When I was there, the sky was cloudy however and I couldn't see many stars but instead enjoyed the beautiful changing light of sky and desert landscape.
A few hours further north, I arrived in Bogota, yet another completely different world with traffic jams, homeless people sleeping next to the main roads and modern skyrise buildings that are illuminated in different colors at night.
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