Santa Marta Travel Blogs

By day four we were set in our traveling rhythm and had all the little routines and inside jokes that are inevitably established when you travel with someone. The daily search for breakfast pastries, feeling comfortable laying your head in each other's laps to take turns napping on bus rides, find…

I am deep in the Colombian jungle, 10 minutes from where we spent the night with the Colombian military, and this guy is showing us how to make cocaine. But that probably isn't the best place to start the story. The story starts with the jungle, and the reason for going to the jungle was to hike to…

Build between the 11th and 14th centuries, rediscovered in 1975 by tomb raiders. To go you join a tour group, usually small, providing food, drinks and hammocks for the night. What a cracker trip, five days trekking through the slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, hot, humid, and ofte…

Ten days in Colombia with my kiwi friend Carol. We started in Cartagena de Indias, the most colonial city in America, then went to El Rodadero in Santa Marta for 3 days and finished ou trip relaxing in the amazing Tayrona Park.

... was not as easy as i thought. i missed the action in bogota (santa marta was rather quiet as well during that time...) and wanted to enjoy at least one or two nights of nightlife there before returning back to switzerland.i was contemplating either taking the bus (which is a REALLY long bus rid…

Santa Marta is what I consider to be, after visiting approxamitaley 3 Colombian cities, a more real version of what the country is like.  Yes Cartagena is beautiful, and it has a mud volcano in it`s outskirts, but Santa Marta is a real place where people have jobs and life …

Getting into town was pretty easy - hopped on a local minibus for 1,200 pesos (US50c/30p) which gradually got pretty cramped and spluttered its way into the city.  Its deceiving - at the bus station on the edge, it looks like you're in the middle of nowhere and you can't even see where a city …

3 days in and already rating it as one of the best places i've visited!

Taganga... Elke toerist blijft hier langer dan gepland (toffe neef Johan kwam voor een week en is hier een jaar blijven plakken). De idyllische ligging van dit dorpje, in een baai met kleine huisjes en omgeven door tropische planten op de berghellingen, is niet het enige wat de toeristen tot hier …

Santa Marta, Cabo de la vela

from Argentina to Colombia in 7 month.

A journey all around the continent, visiting some of the less travelled routes (if such routes still exist and I think them worth trying). The journey ends outside South America, the finish in western Canada.

Hola a todos! Vuelvo a Colombia después de 5 años. Voy a estar 5 semanas en Cartagena y sus alrededores y me gustaría compartir con ustedes, mis amigos, todos los pormenores de mi viaje. Emoción!!Disfrutenlo! Hi everybody! i'm going back home after 5 years of living in Europe. I'm staying 5 weeks in Cartagena. I'm also planning to do some trips around the cartageena area. I'd like to share with you everything about my visit. I can't wait until i'm in my lovely cartagena!!!Enjoy it!

  Today we woke up early, had some good arepa de huevo and headed to the Tayrona National Park. This is a must for Colombians, but I was shocked to see that most people we ran into were European. Actually, I wasn’t that shocked. Europeans are cool. We took sort of an hour hike through…

Colombia is an awesome place, but definitely not the easiest place to get a "chance", as they call it here! Hitchhiking here is a lot more difficult than we expected. We've been lucky a few times, but for the most part Colombians are not as trusting and less willing to give people a lift. Well…