Here it is, the documentary i shot while in San Agustin, Colombia last year, 2006. With great help from guide Luis "polyglot" Salazar I put together this 6 minute video in which Luis de-mystifies some of the mysteries surrounding the statues, their origins and meanings. I hope you like it, please comment if you like this video. Thanks for watching!
10/16/2007
Documentary - The Statues of San Agustin, Colombia
Here it is, the documentary i shot while in San Agustin, Colombia last year, 2006. With great help from guide Luis "polyglot" Salazar I put together this 6 minute video in which Luis de-mystifies some of the mysteries surrounding the statues, their origins and meanings. I hope you like it, please comment if you like this video. Thanks for watching!
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very interesting video i had never heard of those statues before
I had been there 10years ago. this video remind me that times. thanks a lot.
I visited San Agustin in 2002, rented a horse and rode from site to site for two days in a row. I was stunned by a few similarities of every sculpture, the mysterious message left behind - whomever they were and wherever they went, they sure was obsessed with "something" out of this world..
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nice, thanks I think I will go there in two weeks
Yes, Luis is a great guide. I visited the area with him January 2008. He speaks many languages and is so knowledgible and is committed to his work.
Wonderful to see all of these statues again. At the time I didn't have a camera it was 1973 and San Agustin was still being studied by Reichel-Dolmatoff. San Agustin was infrequently visited and the bus trip from Medellin where I lived took four days. But the trip was one of the best trips I took in Colombia.
We walked out top the ruins from our hotel Yalconia and later took a jeep up to a collection of stautes on top of hill outside of town. The park was indeed well kept back then but rarely visited.
There was an eerie feeling in this park, the people in town that we came to know still believed in jungle spirits, beings and ghosts.
Superstitions unuqestionably.
The only foreigners living in town were hippies who enjoyed the local plants and mushrooms.The towns people were suspicious of visitors who strayed away from the hippie hotel. This area in the early 70s was still considered a dangerous area to visit.
I must say that your video and photos certainly show a clear effort on Colombia's part to promote tourism to the site. Bravo!
He's dead wrong about nose flutes they are common all around the world and their presence on a statue in Colombia has nothing to do with ancient Egyptians-that is nonsense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkWQdTwWpDs
Bonjour, san-agustin-colombia.blogspot.com!
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