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Frosted Flakes: Landslides

The scene from yesterday’s landslide in Colombia’s Purace National Natural Park | Nathaniel Perlow: Corn Nation

The travels through Colombia continue. In the last two weeks, I have traveled to the Colombian cities of Jerico, Jardin, Salento, Cali, and Popayan over the course of a couple weeks. I’ve danced salsa in the salsa capital of the world, hiked in the Colombia Andes, observed the world’s tallest palm trees and seen a waterfall in a cave.

However, the most interesting day might have been yesterday. I was riding in a minibus from Popayan to San Agustin (my next destination) when suddenly we came upon a huge traffic jam in the middle of nowhere (but technically inside the boundaries of a national park). We soon discovered that an early morning landslide completely blocked the road.

I ended up talking with some of the drivers at the scene of the landslide who said they had been stuck there since 6:00 am (we arrived at the scene around 2:30 pm). Rain started to come down a bit. We were high up in the mountains so the weather was chilly and the visibility was low due to the fog.

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