Blogs from Nuquí, Choco, Colombia, South America

It has been many months since we left the shores of the most beautiful Carib-Colombian village Capurgana, our bottoms bouncing from our hard plastic seats as the speedboat surged out across the Gulf of Uraba back to Turbo. With every thwack of the hull on water, shock jarred up our spines. We’d taken this journey two weeks previously but that time the boat captain had put enough diesel in the tanks…this time, after nearly two hours of bouncing, we were marooned just 10 minutes from the coastline as we waited for another boat to deliver us our fuel. Fortunately reinforcements came just as the disgruntled murmurings of the tightly packed passengers rose to fever pitch. We were then thrust back suddenly into the chaos of mainland Colombian city life, but none of this could deprive our ... read more

A este monte de 150 metros sobre el nivel del mar, se llega después de dos horas de exigente caminata, por el medio de la selva, en una zona pantanosa y muy húmeda. Hay momentos en que toca ascender bastante, así que dos horas yendo y dos horas regresando puede resultar bastante exigente, pero vale la pena. En todo caso, si no estás muy bien de estado físico, será mejor no ir. TIP DE VIAJE: Si se te olvida llevar las botas “machitas” en el Hotel El Cantil te las prestan. Sin el uso de estas botas no pienses en hacer esta caminata. La pasarías fatal.... read more