Colombia - Colombia travel

More than 6,400 civilians were killed by the military and falsely passed off as enemy combatants between 2002 and 2008,.

Museum Bogotá's most famous museum and one of the most fascinating in South America, the Gold Museum contains more than 55,000 pieces of gold and other materials from all of Colombia's major pre-Hispanic cultures.

The southwest, near Popayán, boasts some wonderful scenery as well as the monumental stone statues and burial chambers of the forgotten cultures of San Agustín and Tierradentro.

Largely intended to eradicate the growing of coca, Plan Colombia funded crop spraying on a large scale.