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La Guajira Slideshow
La Guajira
Travel Blogs from La Guajira, Colombia
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Wenn man vor lauter Bäumen den Wald nicht sieht...
... Land aus kann man das Meer in den tollsten Farben leuchten sehen, und das mit einer Wüste im Hintergrund. Denn die Region "La Guajira" zählt zu den trockensten und kargsten Kolumbiens. Ja, soweit zur Theorie... das Problem war nur, dass ...
La Guajira: Cabo de la Vela
La Guajira is one of the strangest places in the country, by far... so much that I felt completely foreign to all of what I saw there. Shocked by the contrast of poverty and cash circling thanks to the ring of smuggling from Venezuela, especially gas and ...
Columbia Part 2
... of the bloody nowhere. Loading into a UTE with people in and on top for the journey to Cabo de la Vale, fueling up at a road side gas station with stolen Venezuelan petrol pipe line that runs close to the town and intersting ...
Maicao
Maicao was horrible!! It was a fly through place, exactly like most boarder towns but rather than the customary dust there was mud where it had rained so much recently - it is rainy season. We bargained hard and still got ripped off for our bus ...
Northern Most Point of South America (Almost)
... to point. The ground I covered has gotta be two three times that, mabey more. So that is pretty crazy. Getting to Cabo de la Vela from Taganga was a bit of an adventure. From taganga to Riohacha was easy, and I was under the impression that there was ...
Riohacha
... sets of directions for getting a car to Camarones, ready for a visit to Sanctuario Flora y Fauna Los Flamencos, one of Colombia's national parks. Their last instructions actually worked, Calle 15 by the roundabout. The cab took us all the way to ...
La Guajira Desert
... multitude of colours though and so we weren't that impressed. Then we took two more pick-ups to our final destination of Cabo de la Vela. We wanted to go further but apparently its impossible without hiring a 4x4 and a guide as there are no roads. Cabo ...
2nd best beach in the world voted by The Guardian
The English newspaper, ´The Guardian´, voted Tayrona Beach the 2nd most beautiful beach in the world (I can´t remember what year it was, but it was fairly recent). To get to Tayrona, you have about an hour hike through the National Park´s ...
Day 3
... the five bays because the weather was so nice when we left Santa Marta that we were going to try and just head right to Cabo de la Vela (Cape Sail) but as we headed farther out into the ocean the water just got rougher and the wind kicked up and the waves ...
Ciudad Perdida
... get out of Taganga while I still can! Anyway, that's what's new. Love you guys, take care. Love Chaz. P.S. Apparently yesterday was Father's Day in Colombia. I don't know if it is in the states or not, but either way, Feliz Dia de Papa ...
Dia 14, rumbo al desierto
Almuerzo en riohacha con el convoy Toyota y sin saber hacia donde me dirigia ...
Colombia - La Guajira, the unexpectidly beautiful
... we soon found a desserted beach and just chilled out there. happy we had seen enough of manaure we decieded to head towards Cabo de la Vela. in the morning we hear some drumming and some chanting but thought nothing of it, we checked out and headed on our ...
Puerto Wilches
The day in Puerto Wilches started off rather slow. Fernando complained of headaches and slept and I was writing the blog on a computer. We ate lunch, for me that means, rice, plantains, onions, tomatoes, and either potatoes, yucca, or occasionally ...
Day 3
... the five bays because the weather was so nice when we left Santa Marta that we were going to try and just head right to Cabo de la Vela (Cape Sail) but as we headed farther out into the ocean the water just got rougher and the wind kicked up and the waves ...
pier walking
... from Cartagena to Riohacha further up north. I travelled toegether with 2 Belgian girls that are also going to do the trip to La Guajira. Riohacha itself does not have much to see or do besides swimming. It has a beautiful beach which unfortunately, we ...
Journey to the Very Far North
... the pre-dawn darkness. The first leg of our journey was a three hour drive to the town of Riohacha (the northern capital of Colombia). We had a brief stop for breakfast but, being unsure what it was we were being offered, asked for coffee. We were poured ...
to tyrona and bak
well i have not written in a long time as the internet here is pretty rubbish as it takes forever to open a page and i can never be bothered to got to santa marta to use the internet. anyway i am still in this village which has an incredible view with ...
Top of the continent in the middle of nowhere..
One of the highlights of my trip so far... we had been contemplating whether to go for a few weeks. Its a very remote desert land right on the boarder with Venezuala. We had met lots of people who had tried but failed to get there and a few who had ...
staying over night
i arrived at night, found a place to sleep, had a juice on the streets and went to bed, because i wanted to head to cabo de vela early in the morning. the town itself is not very nice, but it was just a stopover anyway. changed money for venezuela in the ...
The harsh reality of high expectations
Tayrona National Park is gorgeous. Lying in hammocks under straw huts, watching the deep blue of the carribean splashing against the pure white of the perfectly smooth rocks which lie next to the palm lined beaches at the base of rain-foerested hills. If ...
On the way to Cabo de la Vela
... I saw all the rubbish in Taganga I decided not to visit the beautiful Parque Tayrona, but go straight to the desolated cape of Cabo de la Vela. To get to this isolated area, you first have to go to Riohacha. On my way in the bus from Taganga to Riohache ...
Abraham and the ex-mayor of San Pablo
... . Nobody knew anybody else's business, and yet they were killing each other's over it. Tito lamented that "the mountains of Colombia cry and shout because they are bathed in the blood of the innocent." The town seems bigger than Puerto Wilches, as one ...
Colombia Part 2 - journey to riohacha!!
... mum left on the 26th which was totally depressing but my friend adam had joined me as we where planning on traveling the La guajira region togetther. Adam had just come from Medelline where he had gotten food poisening so we decieded not to leave straight ...
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