コロンビアDepartamento del MagdalenaSanta MartaVista NieveCerro Quemado11°6’24” N 74°3’1” W
5月10日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Minca is a town at 600m in the foothills of the Santa Marta mountains (highest peak snow capped at 5575m). The town itself is a bit edgy with the police station literally next door to one of the manyもっと詳しく
5月5日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
So we moved 5 hours along the Colombian coast to the Tayrona National Park where we have been diving again. The village is fairly basic (no hard roads, no mains water) but the people are friendly andもっと詳しく
コロンビアDepartamento de BolívarCartagenaEl CabreroPlaza San Diego10°25’34” N 75°32’46” W 5月3日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
A new continent seemed a good opportunity to learn more about local food. So today I (Helen) took a cooking class in Cartagena. Colombian food doesn’t have the same profile as Mexican or Peruvianもっと詳しく
旅行者
Very much looking forward to seeing you when you are home, but also looking forward to enjoying your South American cuisine x
Michael and Helen Cook We have had LOTS of rice and beans (and plantains). Each country has these as stapes, along with lots of lovely fruit.
コロンビアDepartamento de BolívarCartagenaMangaBotas Viejas10°25’19” N 75°32’24” W 5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Cartegena was a dominant trading town particularly a place where gold was collected from elsewhere before being exported.
This quickly attracted pirates (of the Caribbean). Interesting piratesもっと詳しく
コロンビアDepartamento de BolívarCartagenaGetsemaníParque Centenario10°25’18” N 75°32’47” W 5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Previously a very poor part of the city Getsemani (after the biblical location) hosted a street art convention in 2017 and suddenly became a place of interest to visit. Rapidly artists and hipsterもっと詳しく
旅行者
Looks amazingly colourful and full of sunshine. Scotland is going to feel a bit drab by comparison. X
コロンビアDepartamento de BolívarCartagenaEl CabreroPlaza San Diego10°25’44” N 75°32’55” W 5月1日, コロンビア ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
We are now in Cartagena in northern Colombia.
Established by the Spanish in 16th century this was the city where gold was gathered before being exported to Spain. It had to be very fortified toもっと詳しく
5月1日, コロンビア ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
We celebrated our last night in Central America with a meal out at a nice restaurant, this is also just over half way in our adventure.
Today we headed to the airport and flew to Colombia and Southもっと詳しく
パナマProvincia de PanamáDistrito de PanamáCalidonia8°58’2” N 79°31’55” W
パナマProvincia de PanamáDistrito ArraijánMirafloresPanama Canal8°59’52” N 79°35’30” W
4月25日, パナマ ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
I was a child when my interest in the Panama Canal was first peaked. “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama” - my Dad taught me that and the fact it is a Palindrome (can be read forward orもっと詳しく
パナマProvincia de Bocas del ToroSolarte9°19’27” N 82°13’34” W
4月23日, パナマ ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Bocas has a lot of wrecks to dive. First no there are no bodies in any of these wrecks! Most of them were planned wrecks for diving.
We dived to a sailboat called Godewind with all the rigging andもっと詳しく
旅行者 Haven’t commented much and I’m weeks behind. But what a fabulous adventure you are having. Fantastic posts. Amazing pictures. Very inspiring.
Michael and Helen Cook Yes we are having a great adventure.
旅行者 Amazing bird colours.
Michael and Helen Cook They do, hope you are well
旅行者 More fabulous photos. The humming birds are beautiful.