Minca

We spontaneously decided to add Minca to our list of stops in Colombia (not only but also because Milenas brother, who was in Colombia not long ago, pointed it out as one of his highlights - danke Silvio!). Minca is located in a small valley a bit higher up in the mountains and well known for nearby waterfalls, bird watching, cacao tours and great views to the surrounding djungles. We found a really gorgeous hostel just a 10 minute (steep uphill 🫠) walk of the small village, including a vegetarian restaurant, a bar with a view terrace, and a triple room in the middle of the forest with one front overlooking the djungle 🥰 As Minca is a very popular backpacker destination and as we arrived on a friday, we even got to enjoy a very good life DJ at the bar terrace while drinking our beer and watching the sun go down over the djungle hills of Minca - definitely among our favorite moments during our travels! ❤️
We also did a tiny trek to see the two most famous waterfalls and even swam in the (pretty cold) pool of one of them, but none of the two waterfalls was able to reverse our opinion that we just don‘t care for waterfalls - unless they are Rheinfall-size at least 🤷🏻‍♀️
So, we conclude that Minca was a full success which not even the thousands of tiny, nasty and very hungry mosquitos could spoil (they were even worse than in Koh Rong Sanloem in Cambodia 😒). Let‘s cross fingers that a nasty pattern of red and bloody patches is the only thing these sh*tty little things gave us 🤞🏼 (update from August 11: seems like it was the only thing 😉).Read more