Three decades ago, the Lost City of the Tayrona people, a Machu Picchu-sized pre-Colombian archaeological site set on a high rainforest-swathed ridge in Colombia’s wild Sierra Nevada mountains ...

This spellbinding lost city in Colombia is centuries older than Machu Picchu and almost completely crowd-free. Thirty years after he scaled the wild Sierra Nevada mountains to reach Ciudad Perdida ...

My family and I had traveled to Colombia to hike over 37 miles and 3,600 feet of elevation to reach this "Lost City.” I first heard about Ciudad Perdida from a friend who had done this trek 2 ...

Finding the Lost City From the end of the 1980s, archaeological work at the site was interrupted by violence linked to drug-trafficking and the consequences of Colombia’s civil war. Work, and ...

The Lost City, believed to have been built between 700 and 800 A.D., was once the bustling heart of the Tairona people, a sophisticated civilization that thrived long before the Spanish conquest.