Tayorna National Park, Columbia
Tayorna National Park is one of the wildest and most beautiful places of South America. The park has stretched out 58 square miles carved with the equatorial rain forest and amazing species such as dusky titi monkeys, red squirrels, collared peccaries, jaguars and 200 species of birds, ranging from Caribbean toucans to red woodpeckers.
Just beneath the mountains extend palm-fringed beaches, farmed by sea boulders and connected by footpaths through the jungle.
The jumping-off point for Tayrona is the coastal city of Santa Marta, Colombia’s oldest town, founded by the Spanish in 1525 and best known as the place where Simón Bolívar, the Latin American liberator, died. The old part of town, anchored around a charming cobblestone plaza and a centuries-old cathedral, possesses a smattering of faded old hotels and apartment buildings with marble-tiled courtyards, fountains and other flourishes.
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