The next three days we spent entirely at the hotel. Nothing was close by and everything we needed was there. This was very unusual for our group as we typically are always doing something. However it was really welcome by all. We celebrated Nathan’s 20th birthday. Another birthday abroad for him. We did go…
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…
Today we awoke at 5am. It was drizzling outside our camp with water trickling off the edges of the metallic roof. We had hung our clothes to dry last night after washing them in the river. Since it is so hot, we expected them to be dry by morning. Unfortunately, the were all really wet….
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…
And so it begins again…In 5 days I will be in Santa Marta, Colombia with Xander and Nathan. It would have been great if this was a family trip, but hiking through the South American jungle for 4 days, sleeping in hammocks, a yoga retreat in a small mountain backpacker town is not something Angie…