http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Colombia , Santa Marta , Taganga en-us Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:43:45 +0000 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:43:45 +0000 Aaaahh Taganga... On a pas fait grand chose lbas mais quel bonheur de pouvoir se reposer sur les plages des Caraibes Taganga est aussi trs rput pour la plonge et offre des prix plus que raisonnables.Enfin aprs 2 jours on commencait s'ennuyer alors on a dcid de poursuivre nos diplomes de plonge sous marine. Nous avions dj notre PADI open water le 1er niveau en plonge. 2me ta http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-451037.html So after a long and gruelling journey over the border from Venezuela which included paying numurous officials off and queing for long periods in the raging heat we finally arrived in Taganga. Taganga is a little fishing village around 5 Km outside the town of Santa Marta. It is very popular for diving and just chilling out on the Carribean. We were particularly excited as it was our first trip to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-451000.html Not much seemed to change at first glance in Colombia once in Macao we bought a couple of tickets for Santa Marta Deb wasnt feeling well at this stage and it didnt help when we realised that there was five nice modern buses lined up we had managed to but tickets for the old disheveled bus. The bus was full of peoples belongings and boxes of goods. We managed to find seats albeit at a strange http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-427958.html After a few days in Cartagena we were ready to go to a slower paced part of the country and take it easy for a while. The problem with Cartagena is that while it is on the coast it's beaches are kind of nasty and that leaves one with just a lot of hot and humid town without the chance to really cool off. Enter Taganga a beach village about 4 hours East along the coast.The first thing I noticed http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-411973.html Again a bit of a lapse in time between entries. Once again due partly to the fact that the bloody parasites came back with a vengenace and wiped me out for a few days and also cos we have been running around up and through Colombia seeing as much as we can in just 2 weeks.I have absolutely loved Colombia It is so fantastic. Actually I think Bogota and Medellin are Plastic Fantastic Colombia http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-411654.html Hola mi amigosIm just loving the diving here. Its outstanding. Vida Marina Sea Life. The visability the other day was over 60ft thats about 20m for the Europeans.Im becoming a standing joke on the boatevery day just after weve left the shop the tanks are filled on the boat Ive finally got everyone in the boat the achors away all the divers students are kitted up their gear http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-400352.html The night life in Taganga is quite good consists of lots of wee bars restaurants a club called El Garage itrsquos open busy WednesdaySaturday itrsquos stinking hot there even though itrsquos completely out doors. Afterwards everyone usually goes to the beach for the afterparty which is cool in a hot sweaty kind of way especially when therersquos a 24 hour bottle shop round http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-398554.html Linda I decided wersquod check out a few dive places after much consideration deliberation we went for a couple of dives with Vida Marina httpwww.buceovidamarina.comhomebig.html just because there was a nice wee Scottish lassie Jill working as a Dive Master there the Colombian chappie Santiago yes another one who owned the place had an honest smile some of the best SCUBA gear http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-398515.html I received a little miffed comment from a Colombian blog reader about the ldquodrug cartels bandits kidnappersrdquo description in a previous bloghellip..so apologies to all Colombians who are in denial about their history their current state of affairs their potential future. No offence was intended. There are no terrorists no one I know in this particular hostel has been robbed on http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-398504.html Daily trips to the beach coves around Santa Marta where you can explore and walk along the clifftops and maybe find israeli backpackers sunbathing nude. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-389350.html Ser dokke at eg klarte aa faa alle mine fire spraak inn i overskriftaHei paa dokke No er vi i Santiago Chile. Vi fekk ein turbulent start paa oppholdet her daa eg vart tatt for smugling i sikkerthetskontrollen paa flyplassen. Eg tullar ikkje. Det er faktisk heilt sant. Men eg skal fortelle om det i neste reisebrev. No maa eg foerst konsentrere meg om Colombia og Venezuela. Eg trur eg tryg http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-385079.html Just north of Cartagena along the coast is the lovely beach town of Santa Marta. Smaller than Cartagena but nicer beaches including the hippy style town of Taganga to the north.Our first night in Santa Marta was pretty quiet still pretty humid we walked around town had a quick dip and bought some food for our following day at the beach. Had a few beers at the hostel which was run by a nice http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-365494.html To wake up on Christmas morning with three fans whirring in your room and sunshine bursting through the balcony window was something of a rarity and a treat. Stepping out onto the balcony avoiding nudging the sleeping person in the hammock I looked across the tiny fishing town of Taganga and realised Christmas was going to be different this year. As well as the already searing heat the beach wa http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-359366.html meine lieben somit auch eigentlich schon ne weile in columbien.. visum visum und auch schon einiges erlebt... hat einfach keinen bock mehr zu schreiben.. aber heut ist alles anders.. denn heut regnet es also was ist passiert.. war da so in nem ollen naturpark.. war schoen.. gar fetzig.. da ich mich uberschnurren liess an einer sightseeing beach tour teilzunehmen... idioten auf jedenfall k http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-291375.html Warning This blog is about me doing nothing for a couple of days on the Colombian Carribean. After a pretty tiring 18 hour drive from Bogota we arrived in Santa Marta to be greeted by heat and humidity. With the temperature in the mid 30s and humidity pretty high the dusty city of Santa Marta was a bit of a shock after coming from Bogota in the mountains and off the air conditioned bus. At l http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-287318.html After a slow start Darragh Sharyn and I made it to the bus station and onto a bus that was apparantly going directly to Santa Marta about 4 hours north of Cartagena. It didn't take long for all of us to get comfortable and enjoy the chance to do nothing for 4 hours on the bus. Only a couple of hours later though we pull into a large town and were told bluntly to get off the bus and change to a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-221336.html Howdy everyoneI am in Taganga right now it is a small town outside of Santa Marta at the northern tips of Columbia.I figure I should do a short update since I havent updated for a long time...well a lot of things have happened I would love to feed you on every single little one of them but it would take me days to put it into writing. I promise though that at a later date I will do a detai http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-218801.html Taganga is a drowsy and someimes very noisy fishing town east of Santa Marta that attracts scuba divers snorklers and young hippies. Juice carts abound.... semicircular restaurants vie for your custom and anyone who has something to sell will find you. Fishermen bring in a fresh catch daily. Many old barques lie picturesquely along the beach. Where I ate one day I was remembered the next mainly http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-204691.html We managed to find our way to Taganga a small fishing viallage that is taken over by holidaymakers and tourists. Rather like when we lived in Taupo you left home during the holiday season because it went crazy.Our transport included a taxi to the bus station the taxi driver had no idea what our Spanish meant and he finally figured out our hand gestures and the odd word in the dictionary. We t http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-178489.html TaganganbspSouth America raquonbspColombia raquonbspSanta Marta raquonbspTaganga By MickBJune 12th 2007. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/Taganga/blog-168564.html