Into the Heart of COLOMBIA by 4X4 | An Overland Adventure Film

INTO THE HEART OF COLOMBIA BY 4X4

Driving the Pan American highway actually involves rarely being on the Pan American highway and intentionally going out of your way to see unique, different and exciting things. Sometimes in the middle of beautiful cities, as the tallest cathedral in Colombia.

Quickly overstimulated by the bustling streets of Manizales during a Holiday we’re heading back across Colombias central Andean Mountains. We have a destination pinned on our map, yet campsites or public land are all but non-existent here, that’s going to make things interesting as the sun sets. For now, we’ve got beautiful scenery around us.

We’re in the region called Eye Cafetero, also known as the coffee axis. This region produces the majority of Colombian Coffee. The farm we’re at uses the traditional method of growing, which combines many different medicinal plants, fruit trees and vegetables along with the coffee. This creates a natural ecosystem of defence for the coffee, as opposed to commercial monoculture plantations which have to use pesticides and fertilizers. These old machines are used to strip the shell of the beans, and the second one separates the high quality coffee for export, from the beans they sell to the supermarket.

These Colombian mountain routes are equally exhausting as they are interesting and entertaining. It may all us all day to travel 50 or 100 kms, but the views are amazing, as long as we don’t have to turn around for some reason…

This area is called Tochecito or Finca La Carbonara and these are the tallest Wax Palms in the world. This area concentrates 80% of the world’s wax palms estimated at 600,000. They’re threatened by cattle ranching in the area as the seeds that fall to the ground are mistaken for grass. It’s striking to see palms trees of this size up here at 3000 meters in elevation.

We’re hoping to camp at the top of Cerro Machin. The last time we drove into the crater of a volcano we got stuck for hours in its clay. This time we would face a different terrain hurdle.

Cerro machine is a stratovolcano that’s part of a larger system of volcanos in this region. Since 2010 its seismic activity has steadily increased and is closely monitored. In decades prior it’s been responsible for several evacuations. Now it hosts a small laguna and a farm. I can’t imagine living inside a volcano plug, but camping in it is certainly memorable.

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