Actually 55,000 pieces of pre-Columbian gold belonging to the Calima, Musica, Nariño, Quimbaya, Zenú, Tairona, San Agustín, Tierradentro and Tolima civilizations. You can see them all, for a mere $3,000COP at the Museo de Oro (Gold Musuem).
There are all-sorts of gold from, offerings to the gods to clothing. One can really see why the legend of El Dorado grew.
Looks like a Pink Floyd album cover, doesn't it?
Map of indigenous groups in Colombia.
The wasp cut off our tail, the tail that people once had. We all had a tail. The wasp cut off the tail of the frog and ours too. That is how we became human beings. Eventually the wasp got tired of cutting so much. From that moment on the humans that still had a tail became long-tailed monkeys.
Uitoto, Vaupés (A Colombian state located on the border with Brazil in the Amazon)
Tobacco was once people. It liked stories; when it heard people speak at home, it got close to the wall and listened. That is why Mother Earth always had tobacco grow around houses, near the walls. There it could listen. Also, Mother Earth made sure that tobacco was consumed with coca, so that all of the stories could be heard.
Kogui, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Mountain range on Caribbean coast, not too far from Venezuela)
I can't wait to go back to the museum to soak it all in. There's a lot of cool stuff to see there.
Saludos desde Bogotá
