#tayrona

[lionofchaeronea]

Ocarina (ceramic grayware; 11.4 cm [4.4 in] high x 9.2 cm [3.6 in] wide x 4.4 cm [1.7 in] thick) in the shape of a standing zoomorphic figure wearing a crescent headdress, by an artist of the Tairona people. The Tairona (also spelled Tayrona) lived in the La Guajira and Magdalena provinces of present-day Colombia until the arrival of the Spanish, who nearly wiped them out in their hunger for gold; the survivors withdrew to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. Their present-day descendants, the Kogi people, still use ocarinas like this one today.

Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

[moooon148]

[cuberflower]

Bahía Concha, Santa Marta

[woodsfae]

My partner wrote this poem for me on my birthday and it makes me so soft every time I read it.

the white mule walking by himself beside the plantain fields on a long road  purposeful rendered jovial by his gait in my mind  as we passed on the bus I’d of liked to meet him to step outside of our bodies into a common sunset

or the thunderstorm filling carrera 9 with water that came up over the knee

in tayrona the bird song stopping us like a spell  frozen in what  must have been a long conversation  between flutes and birds

and then the howlers clambering through the trees overhead  slowly  living  beautiful 

the people here say this is the heart of the world and you hear the singing in the gait of the mule in hum of the water from the birds from the trees the huff of the howler monkeys so far from sight you have  no way to know they are not ghosts deep in the trees and your heart steps outside again beats in step with the world again

[snaiderrojas]

[backonefish]

To mark the end of my trip to Colombia, here are some of my fave photos of the country

[nomellamojavier1]

Brisa en el Tayrona. . . . . . . . . . . . 📸 Galaxy A52 #VSCO #Vscocam #Igers #PicOfTheDay #Colombia #IgColombia #Tayrona #TBT #Traveler #Backpackers #Landscape #Nature #Beach #Sealife #GalaxyA52 (en Playa 7 Olas-Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5MwmuvrpM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[camilojoc]