Place: Chiribiquete National Park, Colombia
Weather: ?
Route: Visit allowed by flyover only.
Significance: This is the first place we haven't been able to visit on the ground. Chiribiquete is in Colombia's southeastern rainforest. There are beautiful table top mountains, but it is best known as a place where there are still uncontacted peoples living - which is why it is so heavily protected from outside visitors. There are 60 rock shelters with paintings on them - some from as long as 20,000 years ago. It is thought that uncontacted peoples still view these paintings are sacred and visit them regularly. The main object of their worship is the jaguar. As with most rainforests, the biodiversity here is incredible. Although it would be great to be able to see Chiribiquete, it is refreshing that there are some areas so remote and well protected that they remain beyond the grasp of the modern tourism industry.
Images:
An example of rock paintings found in Chiribiquete (from whc.unesco.org)
Table top mountain (from parquesnacionales.gov.co)
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