Covenas, Colombia Travel Blogs

Let the adventure begin...
May 31, 2007 (28 photos)

... de 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?
Sep 15, 2005 (17 photos)

... of the campus and had a full day of just hanging with the local univercity kids - probably one of my favourite memories of Colombia so far - just integrated right into the scene you know? Most importantly though, these girls came with us to the FUTBÓL!!!!!! ...

Sailors of the Caribean
Dec 10, 2006

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 for ...

El Festival del Burro
Apr 6, 2007

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 ...

Into the Jungle: Parque Tayrona
Mar 23, 2007 (11 photos)

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
Jul 2, 2009

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 ...

Coveñas, Colombia
Feb 27, 2008 (134 photos)

... 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
Jan 19, 2008 (5 photos)

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 bull. ...

Paper mache
Sep 11, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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, ...

Sincelejo- Kind Colombian Family and amazing steak
Oct 11, 2009 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Me llamo Luna
Apr 20, 2007 (19 photos)

... 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 real ...

San Bernado Islands - Colombia
Sep 2, 2009 (10 photos)

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 ...

Still sweating in Cartegena
Sep 27, 2006 (17 photos)

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 ...

cartegena
Nov 24, 2005 (17 photos)

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
Jan 30, 2009 (19 photos)

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 dann ...

Cartagena
Mar 11, 2007

... 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 ...

Victims of the Worst Practical Joke Ever
Nov 1, 2006

... the much-hyped and looked-forward-to five day crossing from Portobelo back on the Carribean coast of Panama down to Cartegena in Colombia. Picture it, 5 days of casual sailing through the caribbean, soaking in the sun, stopping off for two days in the ...

tolu
Jun 6, 2009

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