So this is my last photo from the ‘Ciudad Perdida’ trek, the rain kept coming down hard and the rivers swelled even more making the crossings harder and harder.

My camera broke (Canon G10) very dissapointed, I’ve only had it just over a year, apparently a really big problem with canon compacts the lens gets stuck out and fails to retract (should have gone with the Panasonic - LX5).

On the biggest river crossing one guy got swept away, fortunately dragged out of the river further downstream by another member of our group. As the water kept rising we were pulled across the river in a steel frame cage.

The last day of the trek involved lots of very deep wet mud, well over my boots at times - a beer had never tasted so good as at this finish line!

Rather bedraggled photo of myself in the ‘Lost City’ - shame the weather wasn’t any better for photos, however the cloud/mist certainly made the city seem more remote/lost.

Lost City in the Mist

There are 169 terraces, upon which houses used to stand, it is believed to have once housed 2000 to 8000 people, the terraces also act as a burrial ground which the grave robbers pillaged upon its discovery on 1972.

I think there were 18 river crossings in total, time for very wet feet, on day three the weather changed… apparently this region has 4000mm of rain a year, it showed. Clothes wouldn’t even dry overnight, horrible having to put wet clothes on in the morning! However felt surprisingly good, our group were great, really nice guys!

So the first two days were pretty easy going, only the heat took its toll on the long slogs uphill. First propper treck in my Alt Berg Jungle boots, wearing in well!

Our first night was spent in Hammocks, I slept far better than expected! Food was pretty good aswell…

The Ciudad Perdida (“Lost City”) was not discovered by the western world until 1972, the trek takes 5 days (4 nights) walking through the Jungle over mountains and along the Buritaca river in the Sierra Nevada National Park.

Dry river bed in Dogon… Before the rain…