Colombia!

Colombia
4/26/2009

I´ve gotta admit, Colombians have style. Getting into a taxi cab, the driver sipping a infinitely small cup of dark black colombian coffee(the first group of south americans who actually drink drip coffe, not instant), nice colombian guitar music in the background, and general cool attitude, Colombian have shown themselves to me within my first week here to be the most outgoing and warm hearted people we have met.

Landing in Bogotá after about a day´s worth of delays, and a free night in the airports Ramada, we were totally stoked to be in Colombia. From what we had heard, all the traveller who were here before us told us that Colombia is a must see, and that as long as you are careful, the country is not much more dangerous then Peru. Once in Bogota, we headed to the bus station and caught the first ride to the Caribbean coast, in the direction of Santa Marta, about 4 hours NE of Cartagena. The drive was beautiful, so much rainforest, greenery and banana orchards. I was in heaven after the 48 days of Peruvian deserts. Once in Santa Marta, we took a taxi to nearby, Taganga, a tropical beach neighborhood with a very strong beach lovers vibe. Taganga is beautiful, and filled with bathingsuit clad travellers, and many Colombians. We met up with Cristiana(if you can remember, she was our host at the very begining of the trip, in Rio de Janeiro) And spent the day drinking fresh squeesed juice, laying on the beach, and swapping travelling stories. The sunsets here are beautiful, but not quite matching the ones in Pisco, Peru.

We all hike over to Playa Blanca, the next beach over, and spent the day in the sun. The water here is slightly chilly, due to all the fresh water input. We watch the local kids fish without a fishing pole, only bait and line, and they caught 4 fish, big ones too! They plan on selling them at the market.

So far we are having such an awesome time here in Taganga, and soon we will split up with cristiana, and head to Parque National Tayrona! It is a National park, in a huge tropical rainforest! Awesome!