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Episode 200: The Lost City of El Dorado *IS LIVE*! Image 01: A golden raft depicting the Zipa Ritual was found in a Colombian cave. The artifact dates back to the 1300s and serves as evidence of Muisca tradition. Image 02: Lake Guatavita was sacred to the Muisca people. As per tradition, the chief of the Muisca people would paint himself in gold dust and bathe in the lake. Afterwards, gold and jeweled artifacts were also tossed into the lake to honor the sun deity. Image 03: Gold plated sculptures known as Tunjos that have been found in Lake Guatavita. Image 04: Depiction of what a Muisca Zipa would look like during the golden ritual. Image 05: Countless explorers have tried to pull out treasure from Lake Guatavita, but only a few pieces have been found. Here we see some of the gold recovered at El Museo del Oro. Image 06-07: Images of Percey Fawcett, British explorer who mysteriously went missing while searching for the Lost City of Z in the Amazon. Image 08: LiDAR imaging taken in 2019 has revealed previously lost garden cities in the Amazon. What do you guys think? Is Lake Guatavita full of gold? Is El Dorado real?

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American Holocaust — David E. Stannard

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Uncover The Mystery Behind Lake Guatavita – Colombia

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Lake Guatavita in Colombia. It’s truly a breathtaking sight and the climb there is amazing.

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Laguna de Guatavita. First climbing for an hour or so to witness this beautiful view. There is a theory that this view was caused by a meteorite but nobody is quite sure.

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Golden God on golden pond. (Emerald Museum, Colombia)

[uncovercolombia]

A suggested Tour in Bogota for 3 or 4 days

A suggested Tour in Bogota for 3 or 4 days

Three to four days in Bogota gives you just enough time to see the most emblematic and traditional sights of the city. Today, we’d like to tell you about our suggested tour itinerary for this amount of time.

Day 1:

On your first day tour in Bogota, you can visit the Museo de Oro (Gold Museum) and the Museo de la Esmeralda (Emerald Museum). After admiring the incredible collection of Colombian…

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All That Glisters

  To the British Museum the other day to see the Beyond El Dorado exhibition (http://www.britishmu…

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Just outside of Bogota, a trip to the mysterious Lake Guatavita reveals epic views of the Colombian countryside.

Some travel to Guatavita to commune with the gods. Others to hunt for gold. We were happy to settle for a little peace of quiet.

Learn more about Lake Guatavita » 

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Today, Le Boyf and I went in search of El Dorado. We obviously didn’t find the actual mythical city of gold, but we did find Lake Guatavita, the history of which formed the basis of the legend.

According to historical accounts, the Muisca (native colombians) held regular ceremonies at the lake, which involved the offering of gold objects to the gods (essentially throwing A LOT of gold into the lake) and having their chief (named El Dorado … you see where I am going with this) covered from head to toe in gold dust, before jumping into the water in an act of cleansing.

By the time the Spanish arrived on Colombian soil, the lake had a wealth of treasure on its bottom! No doubt stories of the like circulated through tribes, and along the way the Spaniards spun them into a legend of a lost city made entirely of gold, and ruled by a golden king of the same name … El Dorado.

The lake is mostly empty of gold now, but it did reap a pretty big hoard! Most of the thousands of objects in Bogota’s Gold Museum were found in its depths!

The climb to the top took us a pretty long time, and seeing as we ended up at 3000m above sea level, I did fall prey to some light altitude sickness. On the way back to the City, we stopped off in a strange and rather menacing looking Cafe in the nearby town, which reaped some AMAZING coconut sweet breads! We bought, and devoured, 6 for the equivalent price of about 35p. They were unbelievable. I want to bake a giant one, and burrow into it, creating a large house complex to reside in forever (or at least until I’d eaten the whole thing). Needless to say, the altitude sickness didn’t spread to my appetite!

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British Museum : Family Summer Activities & Beyond El Dorado exhibition

Beyond El Dorado power and gold in ancient Colombia

Organised with Museo del Oro

17 October 2013…

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Laguna de Guatavita, Colombia

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Lake Guatavita, Colombia

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Interesting Facts about Colombia: Part III

Previously, I’ve share interesting facts about Colombiaconcerning indigenous groups and flowers.…

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