Faces are carved into the rocks, La Chaquira, above the Rio Magdalena, San Agustin, Huila, Colombia, South America
Tourism in Columbia, apart from Cartagena, has been picking up slowly over the last few years, with the vast majority being domestic tourists finally daring to leave their cities and venture into rural areas.
In San Agustin, Columbia’s main archeological site we came across the following statistics. In 2008, a total of 13.543 visitors visited the more remote site of Altos de los Idolos, of which were 11.680 Colombians (85%) and 1.683 (!!!) foreigners. The biggest numbers are German (279), French (178) & USA (173), with only 34 Austrian (ranking 13th).
The proportion here is very much in favor of foreigners, because to reach Altos de los Idolos you need to rent a jeep for 150.000 Pesos for up to 5 people and Columbians usually shun this expense. Although we found out that local tourists always pay less, no matter what, renting a “caballo”, a jeep, even in restaurants they sometimes get a discount…
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