National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro, Colombia - UNESCO World Heritage Site

 Place: National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro, Colombia

Weather: Partly sunny, 61/79F.

Route: From Bogata 475 km south on 68, 45, and 37.

Significance: Our first pre-Columbian site that we'll visit in South America. The site is best known for large underground (tierradentro) tombs, which are decorated similarly to the homes of the period - showing the connection between the above ground living and the below ground dead.  The structures were carved out of a volcanic tuff between 600-900 CE.

Website: UNESCO World Heritage Site

Images:

Pillars with human faces adorn one of the large chambers (from whc.unesco.org)

Entrance into one of the tombs (from whc.unesco.org)