Oliver's Homepage Pictures from Colombia.... Part 10 (Las Lajas and Ipiales (Narino) and the Páramo in the Park of Chingaza (Cundinamarca)) These are pictures from our trip to Narino (Southern Colombia) and to the Park of Chingaza (Cundinamarca) in January and February 2002

The church of Las Lajas (province of Narino)

The church of las lajas has been built on a bridge. Its altar is made of the rock itself.

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Kids skate down the road - dangerous!

Carnival in Ibarra (Narino)

carnival procession in Ipiales, 5 kms off the  ecuadorian border.

The Páramo in the Park of Chingaza

The Park of Chingaza is an almost deserted mesa, 3500m above sea-level, only a few kilometers away from the capital of Bogota.

Up here you can find the frailejones with its donkey-ear like soft leaves.

The lagoons were sacred to the indians and home of various gods and creatures.

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