Covenas
Travel Blogs from Covenas, Colombia
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Rest, Relaxation and Mud
DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 340 Temperature : 30 degrees Weather : A few days of rain and a few days of sun Tolu is a small town about 3 hours south of Cartagena, and was a perfect place to spend a few days before returning to Cartagena to get Kevin's eyes ...
Let the adventure begin...
... San Bernardo". Tolú is kind of touristy, with local Colombians that is. Although a few backpackers has also started to discover this part of Colombia. But we are here at the end of May, in the rainy season, so we have the town more or less to ourselves, ...
Ok, so Medellin for the weekend right?
... finally leave town they brought us a cake and hand made cards to say good bye! Took us to a bar one afternoon to watch Colombia LOSE in a world cup qualifying game in - cool atmosphere and pretty intense game. Were approached, as you are, by a completely ...
Sun baking and Island hopping
We had decided that we had done enough lazing about in Tolu (tho there is nothing wrong with that of course) and we had been recommended an Island hopping tour that takes you to an archipelago not from from Tolu. The cost was $35,000 ...
Sailors of the Caribean
The Cast: Guido & Sylvia, the crazy German (& Austrian) Sailors who owned the boat, ran the show, and constantly reprimanded us for breaking various rules on the ship (there were quite a few....I got reprimanded for leaving a pen in the sun ...
Time to chill out....
Tolu is about 175 km or 3 hours by bus from Cartagena and had come highly recommended as a off the gringo trek place to check out. As it was only 10 hours by bus from Medellin i thought i would check it out on my way to Cartagena, ...
Into the Jungle: Parque Tayrona
A seven hour bus ride from Cartagena lies the Parque Tayrona, a Colombian national park which borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of the park is a lush rain forest with few amenities and roads. After leaving the bus, the only way to get to the ...
Lazing in Tolu
Said goodbye to lovely pipster and wandered off to the Colombian holiday resort of Tolu. What an absolute s$%&hole. Luckily we found a (slightly overpriced) lovely place to stay which was very useful for recovering from the illness I´d picked up in ...
COLOMBIAN EASTER BREAK
... friend Francesca and her mother Gloria. We cannot thank Francesca and her family enough for their warm and generous welcome to Colombia. We all certainly had a fantastic time in their country and with them. We only tickled the surface of ...
Covenas!
... to knee-deep water to shoulder-deep water is gradual and gentle, there is no reason to strain yourself, trying to stay afloat. Even the waves are tranquil. This will be the perfect way to spend my last few days in Colombia- beach front and chillin'! ...
Coastal Laziness- Madurulla
... ) is the most entertaining part of playing in the waves. These Colombian waves are nothing like the California waves that I am used to. Colombia waves are not rough at all, you only need small hops and bounces to ride them out. Each time a rare, bigger ...
My 25th Birthday Colombian Beach style
Christina and Nicole (from Canada) had arrived the day before and so we had planned to meet up for breakfast at the late hour of 8.30 before spending the day sun baking, shopping and drinking beer before the guys arrived. Breakfast was average, ...
Coveñas, Colombia
... that I would come back to Cartagena I decided to join a very enthusiastic Colombian adventurer named Chamey from San Andres Island, Colombia and Rebecca from Switzerland to go on a kite adventure trip a few hours south of Cartagena to explore the beaches ...
Running at the Bull fight festival of Sincelejo
A festival so gruesome you can´t believe it can actually exist. One big wooden bull ring, thousands of spectators and fifty angry irritated bulls released into the ring one at a time. It was free for all, and anyone can enter the ring to run with the ...
Paper mache
... store and bought some flour. actually, it was arepa mix--flour for the thick corn cakes sold at street stands all over colombia. good enough. then we ran all over looking for newspaper. found some at a paint supply store. when we got back, ...
El Festival del Burro
Eigentlich wollte ich hier das fest des esels sehen, das fest geht ueber eine woche und es werden esel verkleidet und geschminkt, laut guide eine riesenfete. aber da oli fieber hat und es ihm ziemlich schwindelich ist, bleibt dieser lieber in seinem ...
Sincelejo- Kind Colombian Family and amazing steak
... if they would mind us spending the night on their property if we also had dinner at their restaurant. Of course, as usual for Colombia, they were very, very kind and said yes. Devin and I set up camp in the empty lot next to the restaurant and sat ...
Still sweating in Cartegena
Hi I got the bus from Santa Marta to Cartegena on Sunday Sept 10th and checked into Casa Viena in the old town. I had a quick bit to eat and crashed as the heat was real getting to me. Next day I went around the old part of the city which is ...
Me llamo Luna
... the end of the trip. The journey there was half the fun including the obligatory police stops, passport checks and road blocks. Colombia definately has no shortage of police officers, military guys and guns. Big kick ass AK-47´s which makes a guy feel ...
San Bernado Islands - Colombia
We stopped at the town of Tolu on the coast, a typical Colombian beach holiday town, where the local tourists hired 4 wheel tricycles (quadricycles??) to meander around the streets, and where there the esplanade is full of seafood restaurants. It ...
Medellin - Sincelejo
... to get up to Cartagena in time for the shipping so it was on the road again at 8am. Medellin, synonymous with Colombia's deadliest drug wars, this morning belied the happy exuberant feel it had last night with destitute people asleep on the pavements and ...
cartegena
the bus jounrey was slow and boring and bumpy and we arrived at night so had an early night then next day spent most of the day walking around the old town which is surrounded by water and defensive wall or moat type thing, lots of cathedrals and checked ...
El viaje en velero de Colombia a Panamá
Um nach Panamá zu gelangen, habe ich mich am Tag nach dem Konzert (!) auf ein Segelschiff begeben... Man kann fuer ziemlich viel Geld mit so einem Segelboot vier Tage lang segeln und kommt dann in Panamá an. Ja, und fuer diese Variante habe ich mich ...
Cartagena
... so that is highly unrecommendable if you go with Fiesta tours! I also managed to delete every single photo I have taken in Colombia...depression city. Ciudad Perdida was the first time I thought I had taken good photos and I even got a compliment from ...
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