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I want to share with my fellow bloggers of lonely planet my feelings about the new discover y and exploration of one of the most hidden areas but also one of the most interesting and fascinating one in South American continent. And I want to share not only to probe its existence but also to encourage you to help me to keep exploring it and discovering all together. It is near Bogota, as close as 86 kilometers and an hour and a half, yet far away, as far as it has been hidden and forgotten and banned for decades. It is Viotá, so called this way by the first inhabitants, meaning land of crosses between muiscas and Caribbean panches canivals.
Until recently, it was inaccessible by the state structures, much less by traders and even more inaccessible by visitors and tourists. Viota, starts opening its past, its splendor, and wants to make available to their new conquerors. Its fertile and abundant land, with majestic landscapes, hundreds of archaeological sites, waterfalls, haciendas of the Colombian golden age, with marble floors exported from Europe itself, with glamorous sources, paradisiacal gardens and so. You can view its coffee farms, where flavor and aroma show the best Colombian coffee as is unique and where the view never ends. Bird watching even unsorted, orchids everywhere, ready to flood a botanical garden just of them, and you know that the most important and striking, its inhabitants.
The viotunos are special, severely punished by centuries of conflict, have always survived. They welcome new peaceful explorers with a unique warmth, intimate, harmonious. It is hard to find one viotuno that has not experienced horrendous experiences of violence, kidnapping, extortion, exile, and so, their faces reflect more than anywhere else how difficult life is , human suffering. But there are, opening their arms, their doors and hearts to those who want in peace joying in them back to life.

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Wow! Thanks for sharing! This sounds really amazing and I've been looking someplace interesting to explore this puente for my blog (AndreAbroad.com). I'll have to organize something!
Do you know anything about staying there? Or is it better suited for a day trip from Bogota?
Thanks!

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yes,actually, we are planning to go with few friends the 12-13 november, will you be in bogota? if soo this is my number and whassap +57 3176406716. call me, we can stay in a beautiful hacienda cafetera and you dont need to pay transportation, we can take you.

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