Hammocks and Blackouts

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Colombias flagPublished: February 11th 2007South America » Colombia » Santa Marta
February 10th 2007

Nothing like lying back in your hammock reading your book while overlooking the night lights of the small fishing village Taganga, and then a complete electricity blackout. The four of us just rocked back and forth, helped by the strong winds and had some sporadic conversation, everything is understated in Techos Azures (where we are staying), nothing too stressful, our main worry is getting a nice hammock or space on the beach to see the sunset!
I fell asleep in my hammock but as wake up was nearly falling out I decided to hit my bed instead.
Taganga is beautiful and worth the 20 hour plus bus journey from Bogota, even though they claim it's only 16! The bus was fabulous, we were so well impressed. That was until the air con came on so strong that it felt like we were living in the Antarctic, and no pleas of how cold it was would move the bus driver to turn it off. Along with that they refused to put up the volume when the movie was in English, and then turned off the English subtitles when it was a Spanish dubbed movie!


Karoline
Travelling around the world, first went to India for a big culture shock and some interesting sights and smells. After some yoga course in India we hit China for some Kung Fu and old world history. Did the nature side in Oz swimming with whale sharks, some treks in Karijini and diving on the Great Barrier. Also have partied our way from Melbourne and down the East Coast to be ready for Christmas and New Year's in Sydney. Became very sporty in New Zealand new fave hobbies are now zorbing and skydiving, we shall see what South America brings along with the Inca Trail and Carnival!!... full info
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