Blogs from Taganga, Santa Marta, Colombia, South America - page 3

Smoke from somewhere up in the village rises to meet the clouds that are beginning to roll over the tree-laden but somehow perpetually chocolate orange coloured mountains that surround me - as though autumn has somehow found its permanant home in a tiny part of this ever lush green country. Forgive me - my poetic license must be approaching expiry by now! I suppose that the inability to interract sufficiently in the predominant language of the area pushes me into crevices of metaphor that would otherwise remain, rightfully, undiscovered. It's 1708 and I'm sitting in the bar of the hostel, listening to music that doesn't really fit the surroundings, electricity cables point my eyes towards the small bay that is Taganga. The humidity of the area is like nothing that I've ever known before. It's odd ... read more

Aaaahh Taganga... On a pas fait grand chose là-bas, mais quel bonheur de pouvoir se reposer sur les plages des Caraibes!! Taganga est aussi très réputé pour la plongée et offre des prix plus que raisonnables. Enfin, après 2 jours, on commencait à s'ennuyer alors on a décidé de poursuivre nos diplomes de plongée sous marine. Nous avions déjà notre PADI open water (le 1er niveau en plongée). 2ème étape, c'est l'Advanced open water: la formation incluait 7 plongées dont une de nuit. C'était la 1ere fois qu'on replongeait depuis 1 an et nous voila partis à 27 mètres de profondeur dans une épave avec une très mauvaise visibilité! Heureusement, plonger c'est comme le vélo, ça ne s'oublie pas! On a passé 3 jours a plonger 2 fois chaque jour, on a vu plein de poissons ... read more

Not much seemed to change at first glance in Colombia, once in Macao we bought a couple of tickets for Santa Marta, Deb wasn´t feeling well at this stage and it didn´t 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 angle that wouldn´t change) and on our way. We were stopped a couple of times at military checkpoints (I think the state of our bus may have arose some suspicion). We were even hauled off and the men searched at one stage. Once in Santa Marta after 18 hours in total and Deb not feeling well, we put her to ... read more

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 is not only famous for itś drug cartels, guerillas and coffee. Itś the plastic surgery capital of South America and Stacey and I were quite amazed at the girls in the cities with the big plastic titties. And plastic bums! Almost every chica has implants in her breasts or butts and a hot little Colombian dude hanging off her arm. And ... read more

Linda & I decided we’d check out a few dive places & after much consideration & deliberation we went for a couple of dives with Vida Marina (http://www.buceovidamarina.com/home_big.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 I'd seen so far.....in South America! In any event it's all worked out swimmingly, & most of the people I know here have had a damn fine time with Vida Marina so all is good. Loving the DIVING, the studying of Dave Master theory is average, but diving every day is for me, what it's all about. GO VIDA MARINA!!! ... read more