Nature, right in your Face!!

Santa Marta was our next choice and we used the beautiful Hostel „La briza loca“ as our base. It had a little pool in the middle of the yard and a stunning roof terrace from which we watched enormous weather lightning in awe.

The following day we went over to Taganga, a city widely known for amazing diving and its laid back atmosphere, to find a nice Dive Shop with which I could do my Advanced Open Water Diver and Chris and Gin do their diving license. In the end the shop we ran into first „Calipso“ sealed the deal by their super friendly staff and simply the best value for money.

It was an amazing 4 days and we took some reeeaaly sick underwater pictures. Little sample right here:

Right after our diving days we explored the mountain area around Santa Marta and visited a beautiful waterfall after an hour of walking through s massive rainforrest.

The next day we headed towards For the time the sun was out we had a blast in the water and enjoyed living, untill later the lack of sun let us freeze quite a bit on the way down.

Right the next day we started off for a 2 day trip into Tayrona National Park. Unfortunately we didn´t really think that through because there are a lot of hills and only uneven soil which can become a bitch when you got your 20kg backpack with you. After a 90 min. walk on the first day, we had already experienced some trouble when walking through knee-deep water and alot of mud. The night we spend in hammocks close to the beach and enjoyed the nature all around us. The next day we moved to another place which allowed visitors to swim and optically was a strong improvement towards the first place. Here Chris and I worked about 2hours to strip and open coconuts that were lying around everywhere. Really tiring but also a good feeling to be able to get the job done yourself. :D

On the 3rd day we wanted to see „El Publito“ on our way out and again had a rough time with our backpacks especially because El Publito was high on a mountaintop und even with good walking shoes the ascent took us about 2 hours, and the descent another 3 hours.

Back on the street we rested first and then waved down a bus to take us back to Santa Marta. Next stop: Bogotá!!!