Central- & Southamerica

This weekend I spent on the peninsula Baru with the family from Colorado and my Swiss friend from the Spanish school. Playa Tranquila is just over an hour away from Cartagena. After cooking lessons on Friday, a minivan picked us up at the school. The reception in front of the entrance to Playa Blanca (the name of the entire beach) was, like Laura the women from Colorado said, a bit "wild". There were so many people, vendors and you were approached from all sides. Finally, after 15 minutes of walking, we reached our accommodation directly on the beach (about 10 metres to the water). The accommodation was very simple, but compared to the other accommodation on this beach, one of the cosy ones. By the way, we got the tip for this place from one of our Spanish teachers :-) The accommodation was simple and a bit adventurous, but more about that later ;) The water was crystal clear and the very warm. We spent the afternoon swimming, snorkelling and in the deckchair. It was nice to relax a bit and we needed it. Unfortunately, during the night, a heavy thunderstorm came up and I woke up in the middle of the night because the roof had a leak right above my head and water was dripping on me. So we had to move the bed. After 5 minutes it dripped again, this time on my hand. Finally, we had to move the bed to the front half of the room. Unfortunately, due to this stormy night, we all had not slept so well, but in return the next morning we were surprised with a lovely rainbow. Already at 7am we took a first swim in the sea and did some stretching exercises. The second day was spent on the beach again. It was very pleasant until about 11am because there were very few people and boats. After that, the people started to arrive. Luckily, we were at Playa Tranquila, where it was fairly pleasant with people. But it was a bit crazy with all the boats and jet skis. On our return to the minivan, which picked us up at half past three, we saw a huge crowd that almost took our breath away. It was unbelievable how many people were in one place! The driver told us that there would be even more on Sunday. It was a nice short trip, but I definitely prefer the island of Tintipan and I don't think I would return to this beach as it was just very wild. To sum up, a very nice, adventorous weekend with many impressions.Read more