Taganga Travel Blogs

Ten days in Colombia with my friend, Fernando. We traveled to Cartagena, Santa Marta and Parque Tayrona.

even though i was a bit sceptical because of taganga's reputation as a backpacker hidehout i had to take a look. and i must say, i was very very impressed. the scenery is stunning! i took the packed local mini bus for the 30 minutes ride to the neighbouring bay and coming down into taganga was one …

We arrived on the overnight bus from San Gil this morning and tucked straight into breakfast at our hostel ´La Casa de Felipe´. Fantastic breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast, tea, juice, and all for $5,000 COP each. Our room is fantastic, more like a hotel and only $30,000 COP per night, which i…

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

...rising early last wednesday after a sweaty nights sleep down on the coast in Taganga, we smashed down a little breakfast and mandatory coffee whilst waiting for the tour co. to pick us up for a 6 day trip to ´Cuidad Perdida´ literal translation - City Lost.... or in english... the Lost Ci…

This so far is my favorite out of the 6 countries I have visited in South America. Excellent landscape, adventure awaits with paragliding, waterfall climbing,5+ waterrafting and jungle tracking to name a few. Welcoming people and restored Colonial towns with good food. This should be drenched in tourism but thank goodness it is not. Don't forget to ... SMILE

Hoy partimos hacia playa grande, salimos caminando desde Taganga hasta llegar al final de la playa y comenzamos a subir la montaña por un sendero que nos llevaria hasta la playa. El paisaje se agreste ya que de este lado de la sierra llueve muy poco, muchos cactus. Cuando llegamos a la sima nos e…

Tananga is a little fishing port just outside Santa Marta. It is quite touristy though, and has lots of dive schools, one of which i learnt to dive in. I wasnt too keen on it, i don't like the enclosedness of it all, but it got better towards the end. THe rest of the time we spent relaxing on the b…

A year spent exploring South East Asia, Australasia and my favouriter continent of South America

What do you think of when you hear the word Colombia...1) Shakira2) Drugs3) DangerWell, as it happened so many times already, the only things you hear about South-American countries are the bad things. And for sure, Colombia has already had it´s share of problems: does the name Pablo Escobar ring …

The purpose of coming to Taganga was to learn to scuba dive, which I have never tried before. I have done snorkelling, but I always feel like I'm missing out on the good stuff, and so I was proved right.Taganga is just below the Parque Nacional Tayrona, an area renowned for great beaches and surrou…

Taganga is a small fishing village that is also part of the city Santa Marta. I used it as a stop of place so that I could go visit Tayrona National Park. There are plenty of hostels there but I was looking for one that was pretty quiet. I ended up choosing Hostel Pelikan which is on the…

I was for work at Cartagena, is nice but I love Santa Martha, specially Parque Tayrona!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I spend a great time, and I met nice and great people :)

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!

We've found our place, unfortunately a little late.  Casa Felipe; up the hill from Taganga town beach.  We came over the night before last with Gali from the trek and met up with Karen, Oran, Will and Karl and instantly relaxed in the courtyard of the hostel.  Hammocks and shade, fre…