The Lost City trek had been high on my list of must dos in Colombia ever since I heard about it a few months before. A four day trek in the Sierra Nevada mountains to discover an ancient abandoned city that disappeared into the jungle around the time of the Spanish conquest sounded a bit of me. The Lost City was rediscovered in 1972 and is so deep in the Sierra Nevada mountains it can only be reached by foot, or by helicopter we found out on day 3. The ironic thing is the indigenous people knew it was there all along. The city was built by the Tayronas back in 800 AD and its thought between 4000 and 12,000 people in La Ciudad Perdida. Only some of the city has been excavated as the indigenous people do not want anymore deforestation that would be required to expose more of the city. The hike: The hike is a total of 70 km over 4 days. They say its a total distance of 48 km but that has been measured as the crow fly’s so we measured it and it is just over 70 km of hiking. It…