El Dorado "City of Gold"
There are many legends about lost cities in the world, each with its own unique feature. This one really speaks out, I mean how many cities are there in the world that are made of gold?!😮😖 You may have heard about El Dorado, the city that is made of gold. So let's delve into this a bit more. The legend goes that some hundreds of years ago, specifically the 16 th Century in South America, Colombia. There was this man named El Dorado-the king of the Musica tribe. The story goes that this man was so wealthy he started covering himself in gold dust, jump into Lake Guatavita, then surface clean. A bunch of jewelry would be thrown with him in the lake as well, as an offering to the gods according to them. Somehow the word got to the Spanish people, and so the myth was born. The Spanish tried finding this city of gold, in which they found some gold in Lake Guatavita, but apparently it wasn't enough for them so they kept looking. For the next centuries, people from A...