Los Nevados National Park lies in Colombia's Cordillera Central mountain range, around 150km south of the city of Medellin. It rises to just over 5,000m and is surrounded by páramo, the high-altitude grassland characterised by damp, windy conditions, tall paja grass and unusual plant species.
This video follows a trek on the western side of the range from Cabana Potosi to Finca Berlin, past the picturesque lakeside campsite at Laguna Otun.
At higher altitudes the landscape was grassland filled with thickets of frailejones, a plant that from a distance looks like an army on a hillside. A short descent to lower altitudes took us through a small forest of polylepis, a tree with multiple layers of peeling bark. There were also signs of volcanic activity.
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Music by Analog By Nature (dig.ccmixter.org/files/cdk/53755)
12 июн 2020
