San Agustìn

I spent three days in this wonderful place, beautiful nature, very friendly people, little tourists, and many many stone statues. I stayed at hotel Cambi, run by a very friendly family, the first day I did the jeep tours, which took us to see a couple of waterfalls, and a few archeological sites, the two interesting onces are located on top of two hills, like most hills around, they are covered with green grass and sparsely distributed trees, many statues have have been excavated from tombs, and put infront of the tombs for display. The next day I did the hourse riding tour, which took as to other sites closer to the town, with more statues and carved stones, but it was a really nice day, perfect weather for a horse ride around the beautiful country side, it was my first ever hourse ride, but I had no problems, and I get better and better at it, learning how to bounce in rythem with the horse, we had a guide (Juan) with us this time, and he cleared up some things that I was wandering about the day before. The third day I went to the Archeological park, which contained even more statues, did I say already that there are many statues around here, all from the pre Hespanic times, by the way.

I tried a fish here called "Mujarra", it looks and tastes like a fish that we have in my country, we call it "Musht", anyway it is a very tastey fresh water fish. The hand crafted souveniers are very impressive here, too bad I have a rule against buying that kind of stuff, because I would have to carry it for a while in my backpack. To sum it up, San Agustìn is a very nice and tranquil town, the only thing it lacks is the tourist crowds, which just makes it an even more fascinating place.

Tomottow I am heading to Tierra Adentro another archeological site, in the middle of nowhere.