After exploring the Lost City, the return trek offers time to reflect on the experience. Many travelers begin and end their journey in Santa Marta, a coastal city full of charm and relaxation.

Santa Marta, a Colombian city once plagued by violence, is increasingly friendly to new businesses and visitors. In nearby Taganga, tourists take to the beach.

Hidden deep in the jungle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia sits Ciudad Perdida, the “Lost City.” Built by the Tairona people more than 1,000 years ago, the ...

Near the northern coastal city of Santa Marta, the more substantial Ciudad Perdida (Lost City) is about a two-hour drive and four-day in-and-out hike to reach the ruins.

By some estimates, the mountain range surrounding Ciudad Perdida — the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta — is home to around 60,000 Indigenous people, along with 350,000 campesinos, or rural farmers.

The Lost City consists of a series of 169 terraces carved into the mountainside, ... We set out after lunch from the village of El Mamey, a two-hour drive from the city of Santa Marta.

It is my first day in the tropical rain forests of northeast Colombia and, along with about a dozen other hikers, I am on the trail to La Ciudad Perdida, or the Lost City. The pre-Colombian city ...

In the Santa Marta mountains of Colombia, an experienced bird-watcher unexpectedly spotted a Santa Marta sabrewing hummingbird. This was only the second time the critically endangered hummingbird ...

Hidden deep in the jungle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia sits Ciudad Perdida, the “Lost City.” Built by the Tairona people more than 1,000 years ago, the ...