The city of El Dorado gold

This city's airport is El Dorado Airport. Why? Because it has the legendary story of the golden man. When the Spanish conquistadors explored this region and discovered the ritual where the local tribe would choose a new chief who would cover himself in gold dust and dip into the nearby lake. People would throw good offerings into the lake. When that was discovered the Spanish made the tribe empty the lake by hand to recover the gold that they could to take it back to Spain. What could be recovered is housed in a vault inside the museum of gold.

We also walked down to the very popular Plaza de Bolivar which is circled around by the cathedral, Capitol building, Congress and Justice building.Read more