Blogs from Parque Nacional Tayrona, Santa Marta, Colombia, South America - page 4

English version below. Le lien vers les videos est en dessous du text. Videos link at the bottom of the text. Nous sommes rentres de la Ciudad perdida le samedi apres midi. Nous etions finalement bien creves a la fin de 5 jours de trek. On a fait un resto avec la plupart du groupe mais la soiree n'a pas traine car le lit se faisait sentir pour la plupart. Le lendemain on a tout de meme eu le courage de partir pour le parc Tayrona. Apres 3 bus nous devions commencer de marcher. Ce n'etait pas long, mais qu'est ce que c'etait dur apres ce fameux trek ! Mais les paysages etaient superbes. Les plages propres et sauvages, la vegetation tropicale, l'eau claire. Nous sommes arrives le soir vers 18h au campement. C'etait le seul ... read more

The Ciudad Perdida decision is made! But I'm not going to tell you until the end of the post. Partly because the decision was partly made as a result of the events of this post, and partly because I want to inject some level of suspense into this blog :) (Of course, you could just scroll to the bottom, but you wouldn't do that, would you?) As I write, I'm sitting in the hostel, it's a hot, sunny day. But the wind is strong - so strong that it's pushing the plastic chairs around (and towards) the pool as though some poltergeist activity were at play. My last post was Wednesday evening. When I left off I was (unsurprisingly) in the bar. I wandered into Taganga to find something to eat. The sea front was was ... read more

Woke up with a bad stomach but only lasted the morning. Back to the beach to relax, swim and read. Got a good picture of an iguana on a rock a few feet away. Peter (the Brit) got a call from London that a large earthquake had just hit Chile. Thought about catching a boat back to Taganga with Peter and his two friends but it never showed up. Boat usually arrives around noon and leaves about 3. The ride back is a bit rough but not as bad as from Taganga to Tayrona. The ranger called them on his cell and they said they would come out if we rented the whole boat for 340,000. Normally, you can bargain them down to 25,000 pp if they are heading back. We decided not to do it ... read more

Looking for rest and relaxation after the arduous Ciudad Perdida trip, I headed east of Santa Marta to the Tayrona National Park. The transportation provided by the hostel to get there turned out to be a 1970s Renault which had been converted to LPG; going up the steep hills towards the park entrance we were overtaken by lorries and the rear bumper kept scraping the ground as we were overloaded with 5 people and luggage. After paying the hefty 34,000 just to get in the park (around £12), we were dropped off at the village resort of Canaverales, but from here there were clear signposts to Arecifes, the next village along the coast, for where I headed. After a 45 minute walk along a pleasant jungle track, I wandered onto the vast beach at Arecifes, with ... read more

I just spent an hour or so writing an extremely descriptive and fascinating blog about the Parque Nacional Tayrona which is now nowhere to be found. sigh... Here are the pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69192286@N00/sets/72157622632318992/ And the few pix (there are about 6) I took in Cartagena and the one at the volcanic mudbath nearby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69192286@N00/sets/72157622536435395/ Otherwise, I´m well. Quite well in fact! Heading to the Sacred Valley near Cusco tomorrow and then Machu Picchu the day after. Besos, amigos! Morganne... read more