Is The Lost City Trek Safe? My Thoughts & Experience

There is no doubt about this, the flight of the lost city in Colombia is amazing and attention. It’s one of the best things to do in the country!

But is it safe? Yes, the brief answer is that the height is generally safe. The main danger is an ankle twisting or something of this type. I recently bounced myself and I have a great experience.

However, getting away from the danger was one of my main interests before going, because Colombia has no great safety record and there is still a lot of guerrilla warfare in the country.

In this blog post, I will address all these concerns and share some higher advice to stay safe on the trip.

The background: the lost city trip

This article focuses only on safety advice and the like.

If you are looking for more general details about the lost city trip and how to do this, write a complete guide for that here.

Safety in the trip: What do you know

• violence

Colombia has a high crime rate and tourists are not immune to this, although the situation has improved a little in recent years.

In 2003, Eight international tourists were kidnapped Under the threat of weapons from The Lost City Trail by gangs from the ELN group. They claimed that they did this to protest against human rights violations of the paramilitary forces in the region.

The tourists were finally released after being held in the forest hosts for 101 days, but the corridor was closed for two years due to the accident.

The good news is that there have been no other problems since the corridor was reopened in 2005. It has been a good safety record for more than 20 years so far.

There is also an army in the region now, and the trip has become a major source of income for the locals, so disturbing tourists will be inverse results for all concerned.

With this in mind, I was not very worried about the gangs on the trip, and as soon as we got to the forest, I stopped thinking about everything completely.

The lost city!

• Theft

I have not heard of anyone with things stolen in the camps on this trip, but they are an arrangement to sleep in the sleep pattern, so be smart.

Each camp will have about 20-40 people who sleep every night, and if you lose anything, flight companies will not be responsible.

You can hide your phone and criticize it under your pill, or below the bed if you want to be very careful. Just do not forget that when you leave the camp the next day.

• Conditions of trail

One of the main risks of this height is just the terrain. It is very rocky and muddy, so there are a lot of opportunities for slipping, journey or fall.

With 4 days of constant walking in this type of environment, it will be very easy to distort your ankle at some point on the trip.

Our guide told us to happen to people a lot. He even saw one of the street verafts broken the ankle, and one of them was paralyzed after diving his head first in shallow water.

One of the most severe trail sections

However, if you are keen and see your step, you will do my best. Don’t worry.

No one was in our collection at all, and none of the other groups we had also had any problems.

In general, the corridor is not very slope enough to be dangerous in terms of huge drops or anything like that. Climbing rocks will not be with exposure or anything.

This does not mean that there are no slopes on the road, but it can be seen easily and avoid it easily.

All river expressions have bridges now

• Food safety

The situation has improved with the safety of food and water a lot, but unfortunately, some people still go through the missing city journey.

Campus workers do a very good job with hygiene and prepare meals, but it is difficult to keep clean and completely safe when cooking in the distant jungle camp.

We talked to another park on the road and said that three members of their group were very ill with diarrhea and met, and it had to be implemented on the mules.

Fortunately, no one has happened to anyone in our group, but if you want to be additional safe, there are many places to buy drinking water bottles along the corridor, or you can bring your water purification tablets.

To be fair, all the foods we had eaten were great, and there was drinking water that was filtered in every camp that we stayed.

We had no problems with the disease on our journey, but the possibility is still.

Dry our clothes in a camp

An indigenous village we saw along the way

• Animals

The Sierra Nevada Mountains are home to many types of animals, including Jaguar, Tabirus, Tokan, and Status Monkeys.

Unfortunately, we were lucky, and we barely saw any animals on our journey, but this does not mean that they are not present.

It is rare to see a snake or a toxic spider on the trip, but it cannot be conceived, so it has taken reasonable precautions for that.

Be careful as you go, especially if you go out of the corridor or wander outside the camp at night.

Give your shoes a good vibration every morning to ensure that there are no creatures in them.

Green green mountains

Bugs

This is the height of the forest, so of course there are errors. I did not find them terrible.

There is some risk of diseases such as yellow fever of mosquitoes in this field, but rare cases. I am not familiar with any yellow fever contracting with a tourist here. Just know it is a possibility.

You do not need a YF vaccine to do the height. I was only happy to be in a state, but most people go without it. No one else was vaccinated in our group, and none of us had any problems.

Certainly bring some errors to use them every day while walking for long distances. The mosquitoes will try to bite when sitting for rest or eating a snack.

At night, all family in the camps contain mosquitoes to protect you when sleeping, so you don’t have to worry about it.

The family is protected by mosquitoes

More evidence of Colombia’s travel

Thanks for the search! I hope you have found these safety advice useful for visiting the lost city in Colombia.

Don’t forget to check my full guide for the lost city trip before you go!