The Charles Lindbergh House and Museum in Little Falls, Minnesota, celebrates aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974). It’s located just outside downtown.
The absolute best thing we did in Ibagué was visit the San Jorge Botanical Garden (Jardín Botánico San Jorge). It’s an impeccably maintained and incredibly beautiful botanical garden with three trails.
Fort San Lorenzo (Fuerte San Lorenzo) is one of the most important sites in Panamanian history. It sits on a small promontory near the mouth of the Chagres River (Río Chagres). It’s a UNESCO World Heritage site along with the fortifications at Portobelo.
If you’re looking for an escape from the city and want to get back to nature, head to Ancón Hill (Cerro Ancón)! It’s one of the best nature parks within Panama City.
On my way to visit the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal, my taxi driver told me how life in Panama seems to be dominated by the canal.
For over 2000 years, the native Muisca people performed a ritual in a small circular mountain lake located north of what is now Bogotá. In this ritual, the newly crowned Muisca tribal chief covered himself in gold dust and took a raft to the center of Lake Guatavita (Laguna de Guatavita). He then offered treasures made of gold to the gods by dumping them into the lake.
Cuicocha Lake (Laguna Cuicocha) is a large lake that sits inside a volcanic crater. It’s part of the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve (Reserva Ecológica Cotacachi-Cayapas).
The Equator monument at La Mitad del Mundo isn’t the only thing to see in San Antonio de Pichincha. There are some very interesting Inca ruins, the crater of an inhabited volcano, and another Equator museum which claims to be the true location of the Equator. You can do some of them on a guided tour booked at La Mitad del Mundo or it’s possible to do all of them alone.
Covering 519 km² of area of Colombia’s western Andes Mountains is Tatamá National Park (Parque Nacional Natural Tatamá). This lesser-known park is spread out over the departments of Risaralda, Chocó, and Valle del Cauca and is one of the more inaccessible national parks in the country.