KolombiyaMamatoco11°13’50” N 74°10’14” W 29 Kasım 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C
Got to Santa Marta 2 days ago. It took 4 hours to get here by bus. Driving is mental here, buses with open doors and hanging people out, beeping the horn and taking over the ambulance.
The hostel is aOkumaya devam et
KolombiyaMinca11°8’28” N 74°7’4” W 30 Kasım 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
We took a 'colectivo', a kind of shared taxi full of Colombians, up the mountain to a little town called Minca in the Sierra Nevada. The road was quite scary anyway, with it's sharp turns and steepOkumaya devam et
KolombiyaHacienda Maria Teresa11°7’43” N 74°5’48” W 1 Aralık 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Woke up at the crack of dawn for a nice local breakfast and then started a hike, an 'easier' one according to the guide book. 2 hours uphill in the hot, humid jungle later, we finally arrived at theOkumaya devam et
KolombiyaPalomino11°15’17” N 73°33’23” W 4 Aralık 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ 🌫 3 °C
Palomino is a real Caribbean beach town. Took 2 hours to get there by bus with open doors. Stayed in a camping with really friendly local people. On the first day we were just hanging on the emptyOkumaya devam et
Vera and Tom
Lunch time in a little palm thatched hut, you can see more like it in the background.
Vera and Tom
Celebrating after an epic swim across the river, so brave. Unfortunately the birds I wanted to see heard my frantic splashes and flew away.
Vera and Tom
A little strip of beach between the Palomino River on the left and the sea on the right.
KolombiyaPlaza Botero6°15’11” N 75°33’52” W 7 Aralık 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Santa Marta to Medellin was our first really long bus journey, almost 20 hours door to door. It wasn't a lot of fun but actually wasn't as terrible as it sounds. We chatted to a couple of people,Okumaya devam et
KolombiyaSan Ignacio6°15’25” N 75°34’58” W KolombiyaLa Pradera6°13’58” N 75°12’0” W
9 Aralık 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
After hearing so many good things about La Piedra and Guatape, we decided to go for them as a day trip from Medellin. The way there was fairly quick, the bus was stopped just once by police and a dogOkumaya devam et
KolombiyaGuatapé6°13’58” N 75°9’18” W 9 Aralık 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Arrived to Guatape by a little tuk-tuk, the closest town to La Piedra. Apparently that's where the Paisas (people of Medellin) come for the weekends for relaxing but we were lucky and it wasn't tooOkumaya devam et
KolombiyaManizales5°4’13” N 75°30’39” W 11 Aralık 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Manizales was rather a stop over for us on the way of Salento as it's one of the three cities which makes the coffee zone triangle. Haven't seen much of it, apparently not even that nice but theOkumaya devam et
KolombiyaSalento4°38’15” N 75°34’15” W
12 Aralık 2015, Kolombiya ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Left Manizales - one of the cities of the coffee triangle - to spend some time in the real Coffee Zone in Salento. The town is just tiny but we had some fun, walking around and drinking at night timeOkumaya devam et
Vera and Tom
Showing off some sunburn
Vera and Tom
First time I've ever had my hair cut in the street! 5000 pesos/450 ft/1 pound. Cheap even for my hair!
Vera and Tom
This is not a bat, but a butterfly. An enormous, terrifying butterfly.