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Post Up in… 75006
Post Up in… 75006
Cacti protrude from blood-red soil sculpted over millions of years beneath the unforgiving glare of the midday sun. A nest– an anomaly here – stands among the arid, flat landscape. It’s the work of Frank Corredor, a Colombian architect, who first came to the Tatacoa Desert more than 10 years ago. His vision was to build a refuge, far away from the bright lights and loud noises of the city. So he built Bethel Bio Hotel. “I didn’t choose Tatacoa,” Frank recalls. “Tatacoa chose me.” Despite the cacti, red sands and dusty earth, Tatacoa, in the department of Huila in southwest of Colombia, is not a desert. It’s a dry tropical forest; one of the few remaining forests in the world and one of Earth’s most threatened ecosystems.