Tatacoa desert

After chilling a bit in the hammocks ay our hostel and buying water, we rented bikes to go for a hike in the desert. Even the wind was hot, so we were quite dead once we arrived at the starting point if the trail. We first went for the Xilopalos trail, which led through a riverbed and a very narrow canyon. We than biked to the gray desert, where we walked around and saw some moon landscape amd crazy formations. At the end of the trail there was a swimming pool, where we cooled down and enjoyed the sunset.

On the next day we went to the red desert, which had a 'labyrinth' of the formations, some crazy rocks, humming birds and cacti. After lunch we had a horse ride through the desert, and saw the sunset. Our 'guide' was a 13 years old boy (we didn't know about it, only when he showed up with three horses), who had learnt to ride a horse at the age of 3. He was born in the desert, and went to school in the nearest village. He showed his school on the map, and once he figured out that we had internet, he asked for YouTube and he put some Colombian music, and really enjoyed having internet.

We were both quite done after the riding, and decided that it wasn't for us. Luckily the sky cleared by night and we went to an observatory, where we had an amazing starry sky. We saw the milky way, several constellations, and even Saturn and it's ring.

On our last day we took a jeep to the nearest town, where we took a ferry over the Magdalena river. At the other side, a guy offered us to take us to the bus stop by motorcycle. As it was quite far away, we agreed. So the three of us (and 4 backpacks) sat on the motorbike and we drove over very shitty bridges and ramps, narrow paths, but eventually we arrived safely. It was one of the most adventurous rides we had in the whole country. The guy was super funny, he was trying to do some good marketing for his service, he showed us some pictures he made with other people, he even made videos with some funny effects, and asked us to send him our pictures from the ride.Read more