{"id":9226,"date":"2013-07-17T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2021-03-16T17:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:48:23","slug":"seven-more-crazy-sights-you-never-knew-youd-find-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/07\/seven-more-crazy-sights-you-never-knew-youd-find-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven *MORE* Crazy Sights You Never Knew You\u00b4d Find In Colombia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday we brought you <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/07\/seven-crazy-sights-you-never-knew-youd-find-in-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven aspects of Colombia<\/a> we personally were suprised to find when we got here. Being the lazy sods, we threw it over to you to make it a nice round ten. The ever-helpful Steph of Discovering Ice fame\u00a0rocketed right back with not one, not three, but FOUR more amazing places around these parts that\u00b4l make even the \u00a8least goggy person, well, agog. Thanks to Steph\u00b4s expertise, we thought we\u00b4d give you guys a BONUS ROUND of surprising sights, by imparting Steph\u00b4s wisdom, and three more of our own, just to show how utterly unpredictable and incredible this little old place is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Salt Cathedral, Zipaquira.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2385\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2012\/01\/bogota-forget-your-expectations-its-south-americas-most-exciting-cities\/bogota_01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2385\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2385 \" src=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bogota_01-e1436467299604.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Salt Cathedral, Zipaquira\" width=\"730\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What else would you put in a salt mine?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u00b4s kinda famous (around these parts at least), but that doesn\u00b4t stop it being completely unexpected and inexplicable. Some people would look at a hole they\u00b4d just taken a whole bunch of salt out of, and think, \u00a8hmmm&#8230; seems to be some kind of hole.\u00a8 Not the good citizens of that wonderfully-named town, Zipaquira, just outside of Bogota. No, no: <em>they<\/em> thought, \u00a8what a great place to build a cathedral.\u00a8 And so they did. Even though there\u00b4s reportedly a bigger one in Poland (how is \u00a8biggest salt cathedrals?\u00a8even a category), it\u00b4s nowhere near as pretty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Gorgona Island.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9228\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/07\/seven-more-crazy-sights-you-never-knew-you%c2%b4d-find-in-colombia\/gorgona-island-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9228\" src=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gorgona-island-3.jpg\" alt=\"Home of the Brown Booby\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gorgona-island-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/gorgona-island-3-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Home of the Brown Booby. Photo from Aviatur.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>50 kilometres out in the Pacific Ocean, Gorgona Island was cut off from the rest of the world for millenia, which explains the rich and exotic flora and fauna that has thriven here, including the Brown Booby. Its remoteness led to an impenetrable prison being built there in the 60s. After the prison was closed in the 80s, it was justly named a Natural National Park, with some of the old prison buildings converted into visitor\u00b4s centres. It still remains cut off, only accessible by boat, keeping the boobies and their companions relatively safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Santa Cruz del Islote.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9229\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/07\/seven-more-crazy-sights-you-never-knew-you%c2%b4d-find-in-colombia\/santa-cruz-del-islote-colombia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9229\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9229\" src=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Santa-Cruz-del-Islote-Colombia.jpg\" alt=\"Plenty of room, guys!\" width=\"400\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Santa-Cruz-del-Islote-Colombia.jpg 400w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Santa-Cruz-del-Islote-Colombia-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plenty of room, guys!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I bet you didn\u00b4t know that the most densely populated island in the world is a Caribbean island off the Colombian coast. Santa Cruzians just can\u00b4t get enough of the pristine surrounds, so much so that they don\u00b4t mind living cheek-by-jowl in it. Crazy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Choco.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6657\" style=\"width: 662px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/07\/seven-more-crazy-sights-you-never-knew-you%c2%b4d-find-in-colombia\/7418012516_c3d06f9fac_o-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6657\" src=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7418012516_c3d06f9fac_o1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Nuqu\u00ed. Choc\u00f3.Colombia\" width=\"662\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7418012516_c3d06f9fac_o1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7418012516_c3d06f9fac_o1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water, water, everywhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While we\u00b4re on the topic of world-beaters, the title for the Wettest Place on Earth is proudly owned by the good people of Choco. Not only blessed with plenty of the wet stuff, Choco has a proudly unique Pacific culture and nothing less than stunning environments, something that helped make their favourite children, ChocQuib Town, such an exciting group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Green Lagoon.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6201\" style=\"width: 662px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/01\/beauty-terror-vomit-the-yage-experience-pasto-and-paul-giles\/laguna-verde-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6201\" src=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/laguna-verde-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The Green Lagoon.\" width=\"662\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/laguna-verde-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/laguna-verde-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Green Lagoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The National Natural Park surrounding the <a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2013\/01\/beauty-terror-vomit-the-yage-experience-pasto-and-paul-giles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Lagoon<\/a> in Nari\u00f1o is just the Lagoon Gods showing off: \u00a8Look at the colours I know.\u00a8 There\u00b4s a Crystal Lagoon, a Black Lagoon, and, of course, the Pizza of Resistance, Laguna Verde. Colombia seems to be pretty good at creating unexpected alien landscapes, and she has excelled again here. Ethereal billows of sulphur gust past you on your hike, until you\u00b4re finally confronted with the semi-active (but safe, I\u00b4m assured) Sulphur Volcano, backdropping the Green Lagoon, with its little natural footspas and eerie emerald hue. Colombia continues to suprise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>La Guajira.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2360\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2012\/01\/video-breathtaking-footage-of-the-cabo-de-la-vela-la-guajira\/la-guajira-pilon-de-azucar-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2360\" src=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-guajira-pilon-de-azucar-4.jpg\" alt=\"Pilon de Azucar, La Guajira (Photo courtesy of off2colombia)\" width=\"800\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-guajira-pilon-de-azucar-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-guajira-pilon-de-azucar-4-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/la-guajira-pilon-de-azucar-4-768x353.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pilon de Azucar, La Guajira (Photo courtesy of off2colombia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rusty desert hills meeting the ocean, the semi-autonomous Wayuu living their own indigenous way; La Guajira is nothing like Bogota, Medellin, Cartagena, or anything you would ever expect in this country. If you\u00b4ve made it here, you\u00b4ve made it to the tip of South America, and something like the edge of the world. Something you\u00b4ll never forget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Whales.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3940\" style=\"width: 662px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/2012\/05\/vive-pazifico-travel-in-colombia-off-the-beaten-track-in-el-choco\/attachment\/383\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3940\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3940\" src=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/383-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"Breaching humpback whale in El Choco\" width=\"662\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/383-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/seecolombia.travel\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/383-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breaching humpback.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u00b4s play a word association game. What do you think of when I say Colombia? Coffee? Sure. Shakira, Fair enough. Salsa, OK, probably. Whales? Not really the first thing that comes to mind, right?<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u00b4s actually got some of the best places to watch humpback whales mucking around in the world. Get in a little boat just off Bahia Solano, in the aforementioned Choco, around this time, and you\u00b4ll get as close as you\u00b4d ever like to these giants. Unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well, yesterday we brought you seven aspects of Colombia we personally were suprised to find when we got here. Being the lazy sods, we threw it over to you to make it a nice round ten. 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