Need help from anyone heading to Columbia

Hi to anyone who is planning a trip to Colombia. We have just returned and it was our favourite country in SA, happy to give any advice. Although a slight mishap when we were there; I left my phone at a hostel.

This is where the help comes in. The hostel have acknowledge that they have found the phone but they won't post it back to me in the UK no matter how much money i offer, as they have trouble with sending packages out of the country. They have however, said they would hold onto it until someone can retrieve it. Now, its by no means a good phone but its purely the content on it that I simply can't live without and am devastated i don't have it or backed up what was on it.

I am looking for someone who is heading to the Santa Marta/Taganga area of Columbia who can collect the phone and if from the UK, bring it back with you or take it to your home country where it might be easier to post from there. I can't stress how upset i am about this and would be so grateful if somebody could help me. Of course I would pay. Please please please let me know if your travel plans involve this area.

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Hello,

Thanks for your precious time and nice suggestion. I have been in Colombia for about 2 months while traveling in the USA for 10 months total. It was my favorite country by far! Like Rocco, I also think that Brittany hasn't been there, or at least not recently, as President Uribe made the country a lot safer for tourists the last few years. When I was there, there were some guerrilla problems in Choco and Putumayo, which are rural and poor areas without any touristy things. As long as you don't wander off into less-known areas, Colombia is much safer than Venezuela for example. Colombians speak the easiest Spanish in the world: no hard-to-understand accents and not as fast as in Spain. And I confirm that people in Colombia are really friendly. After, Colombia I went to Venezuela and I was not able to stay there longer than 2.5 weeks.

Thanks a lot again
Bery Smith
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