Day 7+ – Lazy days

 We woke around sunrise. We have now been conditioned for this. I got a really nice shower and we packed up for the hike out. The only way to these beaches is at least  a 3 hour hike, so we wanted to get an early start.  On our way out we saw that we could…

 Today was the most challenging day yet. However, this is where the trip starts to get a little more interesting. We started the morning at, you guessed it, 5:00 a.m.  There were a couple of fruit stops along the way but not for very long. We hiked almost continuously until we got to El Mamey….

  Bloody, sweaty, painful, exhilarated, exhausted. Today was filled with all of these. We awoke early, still reeling from the previous days hike. It was only 12 miles, but there were a lot of ups and downs, and a lot of rocks that beat up our feet. Many of our group wore sneakers. I can…

We woke early to grab breakfast before getting picked up. Even after lots of encouragement to come to breakfast with Xander and me, Nathan decided to sleep in a little longer. So, although he had placed an order for eggs, he didn’t get them before our tour picked us up. As expected, we were taken…

We landed in Bogotá at 5:15 am. The supposed extra roomier seats were not very roomy, so we were pretty groggy. Amazingly we flew though customs and to our domestic connecting gate before 6. The flight to Santa Marta was also uneventful and we were wheels down by. 8:30 in a cab and at our…