Visitors who are not experienced rock climbers can follow a steep man-made path that takes them to the top.
VOA: special.2009.07.20
After negotiating their way down a series of steps carved into the steeprock face, explorers of the Blue Lake Grotto are faced with a deceptively deep pool of limpid blue-green water.
Though the camp was less than 2 miles away, getting there involved hiking up more than 2, 000 feet while traversing a jumble of steeprock and ice chutes, all of which required careful handwork.
Hidden in the jungle for more than a thousand years and only accessible by a 44km trek through inhospitable terrain, visiting Ciudad Perdida gives travellers the chance to live out their Indiana Jones fantasies as they battle rock scrambles, steep ascents and numerous waterfalls along the way.