Blogs from Taganga, Colombia, South America - page 4

Hot, Humid, Sweaty, Rainy, with Mosquitoes and sand flies, conditions that don't make you want to go for a five day 68km hike. Notable was our apprehension based on other peoples grueling reviews, Luckily it seems that everyone who has written reviews seem to want everyone think that they had achieved the impossible, and we were met with an enjoyable beautiful, even difficult trek, but far from impossible. That is the 4 night 5 day option, we noticed groups doing it in shorter periods where having more trouble with blisters and were generally rushed, for us and everyone we spoke to the trek itself is a main highlight so why rush, thats not to say that the ruins are not amazing. We booked our tour with Expotur,who we found excellent. David the manager was nothing but ... read more

Back to civilization again, unfortunately. We had an amazing trip to the most amazing beach I have ever seen or could have imagined. Tayrona is a national park located on the north Caribbean coast. We took a bus into Santa Marta and found a connecting bus to Tayrona on Monday afternoon. Since we heard that food prices are outrageous (quite true) we brought some standard backpacker diet staples of doughy white bread, peanut butter, granola and beef jerky. All the Aussies and Kiwis give us crap until they try it in all of its deliciousness. You´re welcome, Sean. After an hour or so hike that we dominated if I might say so myself, we came to the first beach of the park, but it wasn´t good for swimming and my Colombian stalker recommended another one farther ... read more

So here we are sitting in Riohacha in part of the northern most region of Colombia, burnt, hot but smiling. Wow there has been much adventure since I last wrote in Bogota and we have travelled quite a way. We caught a bus (that was meant to be 8 hours, but was closer to 12) to Bucaramanga, not arriving until about 10pm. This was probably not the best idea, we holed up in the closest hostel we could find but our glimpse of Buca was not a great one. Perhaps we were in a seedy area but there were alot of drunk leering men and prostitutes. We were in a tiny room partitioned off from someones garage, and woke up to thumping music and car fumes rapidly filling our room. So we decided to leave a ... read more

SCORPIONS IN OUR BEDROOM!!! SCORPIONS IN OUR BEDROOM!!! Actually just one, but I think it might be one of those deadly ones. Ryan thinks I´m overreacting.... read more

Woke up to the sounds of birds, frogs and cicadas. Got ready and into town by 7 45. Taxi was waiting with 4 people already in it and Roddy coming down the street. I squeezed into the front seat with the driver and a grandmother. Peter and Roddy got into the back with mama and her daughter. The grandmother kept crossing herself as we went around the corners. When we got near town the taxi began doing the scenic route through the suburbs, dropping off and picking up items. Got to the Santa Marta "bus station" safely and disengaged ourselves from the taxi. Walked through a large market area to pick up the minibus to Taganga. Had breakfast with Roddy at one of the restaurants there. arepas con huevos (fried corn meal pockets filled with eggs, ... read more