Day trip to the Rosario Islands

We were up at 6am to get ready for our pre-booked trip to the Rosario Islands. It had rained heavily overnight and there were thick clouds blocking the sunrise. The forecast was for a hot but very cloudy day.

We had to be at the meeting point in the centre of Cartagena by 7.50am, so we started trying to get an Uber soon after 6.30am. We finally got one at 7.15am, so it's a good job we started early!

The driver dropped us off at around 7.40, enough time to grab a coffee before we met Anna and Alejandro, our guides for the day. We paid for our entrance tickets to the Rosario Islands National Park and then went to wait for our speedboat.

There were 36 of us in the group, including a Welsh girl and a Scottish couple who we got talking to early on. About half the group had booked the more relaxed 'leisure' tour. The others had booked the 'party' tour. We were all going on the same boat, so some people were bound to be disappointed! As it turned out, the first four stops of the day were chilled and suited us fine. It was only the last stop that was a 'party stop' with loud music and fun and games in the pool!

We left Cartagena at around 8.45 for the 20-minute speedboat ride to Namaste, our first stop. Here, there was an opportunity to have breakfast, so we shared a plate of Huevos Pericos and had another coffee. The hour we were there passed quickly.

The photos attached to this footprint 👣 are of Namaste and the boat ride to get there.Read more