Taganga Vacations, Taganga Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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 is about $25 NZD. Great atmosphere, I could stay here for a very long time!! A really nice setting with lots of hammocks! Santa Marta itself isn´t the most nicest place. Really dirty and dusty and ...

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 of the best colombian sights so far: you can see the whole bay, the fishing boats and the huts of the fishing village scattered around: really nice!the town definitely has its charme but the travell...

The journey from Merida Taganga was not so fun.  The cab driver in Merida was clearly drunk and continued to swig his bottle as he swerved and yelled his way to the terminal.  The buscamas were all sold so we had to settle for a night bus with no recliners.  I had also just acquired a serious case of bum wee which made the toiletless journey extremely unconfortable.  The second bus that took us to the border was pretty horrible.  When we got on it was quite empt...

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 encontramos con una vista impresionante de la bahia de Taganga y hacia el otro lado una bahia mucho mas pequeña llamada playa grande. Descendimos y llegamos a la playa temprano por la mañana, nos ...