Sunday, August 12, 2012

Gold Museum

Later we went to the gold museum. It has the biggest collection of gold artifacts in the world! It was interesting to see gold that the people in Colombia used to wear. Something that was very common was to wear nose rings. Some of them were huge! There were also different types. One kind branched off from their nose and had beads dangling.

There is this legend called El Dorado. The legend is that the people had a lot of gold. They believed in different gods. They believed that a person that was a god was wearing a lot of gold, and when he jumped into lake Guatavita all the gold fell to the bottom. People would go diving, and try to get gold. No gold was ever found down there.

There was also a make shift market outside of the museum, but we didn't get anything to buy from there.

Anna Buist

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