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Santa Marta Slideshow
Top Hotels in Santa Marta
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Estelar Santamar Hotel & Convention Center Santa Marta
73 reviews -
Sol Arhuaco Santa Marta
26 reviews
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Mendihuaca Caribbean Resort Santa Marta
32 reviews -
Hotel La Ballena Azul Santa Marta
13 reviews
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Hotel Tamaca Beach Resort Santa Marta
49 reviews -
GHL Comfort Hotel Costa Azul Santa Marta
21 reviews
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La Riviera Santa Marta
11 reviews
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Zuana Beach Santa Marta
62 reviews
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Hotel Casavieja Santa Marta
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Hotel Betoma Santa Marta
48 reviews
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Hotel Imperial Caribe Santa Marta
6 reviews
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Hotel Mar Azul Santa Marta
2 reviews
Santa Marta
Travel Blogs from Santa Marta, Colombia
Rolling in the Deep
This is a top pick! Next stop along the Caribbean coast was Santa Marta. While here I decided to do another Scuba dive in nearby Taganga. I signed up for a two tank dive with Poseidon, one of the more expensive companies in town, as my instructor in Capurgana had recommended ...
Sand gets everywhere...
This is a top pick! ... ; Taganga itself is not so memorable. A tiny village set in the next bay to the far less memorable city of Santa Marta, Taganga is overun with backpackers, most of them Hebrew speaking, with most of the village's amenities existing to cater ...
Ciudad Perdida
This is a top pick! ... her counterpart, Fatima, reaches the restaurant not too far behind us and tells us that she's not even tired. "Let's walk back to Santa Marta!" she says. (It's a 2-hour drive) I hope that I can take a walk about the block when I'm 60, let alone ...
Hummingbirds............
This is a top pick! ... , is absolutely lovely. It's definitely money well spent. And so after two nights spent at Minca we headed back down to Santa Marta and found ourselves a cheap hostel for the night. The room was hot and stuffy, the pillows were useless and the mattresses ...
Diving on Colombia's Caribbean coast
This is a top pick! ... 4pm, took night bus to Maracaibo. Arrived Maracaibo at 6.30am on Tuesday and immediately boarded local bus to Maicao (Colombia); then another bus to Santa Marta. Arrived Santa Marta about 4pm on Tuesday 28th. PHEW!!! Our longest non-stop travel stint in ...
La Ciudad Perdida .... The Lost city
This is a top pick! ... why the government has lost control of about 40% of the country and the war on drugs is about useless. Considering that Colombia is roughly the size of France and Spain combined, thatīs a lot of territory. Fortunately, this region is somewhat controlled ...
Monkeying about in the jungle
This is a top pick! ... So up the 1200 stone stairs we went. Again. We sat out the day in the hut eating biscuits.... Day 5-6. Made our way back to Santa Marta walking like biddies. I have never been so stiff in my entire life! But we made it and I loved it. I think I mustve ...
Picture-perfect paradise
This is a top pick! ... park (and rightfully so). So, after a day of diving in Taganga, we packed our day packs and on Thursday 2 March took a bus from Santa Marta to the Park entrance, about 35km to the east. Foreign visitors pay a steep US$10 entry fee - we made the staff ...
The Beach Bum Life
This is a top pick! ... . The lifestyle of a beach bum is usually one of leisure. Also see photo on the left. I'm back in Santa Marta, a popular resort-like city on the Caribbean coast where I taught English four years ago. Oddly, the city ...
locombia - the crazy country
This is a top pick! 8 December, 2005 Locombia - The Crazy Country Santa Marta, Colombia - Choking dust fills the air. Plastic bags swirl over bony, lifeless stray dogs. Shanty towns made of tarps, sticks, mud and garbage line the road. Shoddy merchandise piled high on ...
Professor Jeff
This is a top pick! ... , I find myself employed again as I accepted a job teaching english at the Colombo Americano Institute here in Santa Marta. Job requirements include an updated resume, certification teaching english as a foreign language, teaching experience, and thorough ...
Lucky Number 7
This is a top pick! After Carnaval, the gang and I headed straight for Taganga; the ultimate Colombian, chill-out, beach village. And here is where I celebrated my 7th anniversary of being a professional slacker. Seven years ago on this day, I ...
The Lost City or not?
This is a top pick! ... few days at La Casa de Felipe in the small fishing and "tourist" village of Taganga, just a few kilometers outside the city of Santa Marta. Mainly to relax and spend some quality time on the beach. I am surprised I'm still not tired of beaches, as there's ...
Tourist Central
This is a top pick! This is vacation season here in Colombia and the small city of Santa Marta is Tourist Central. The hotels, restaurants, and beaches are full and the town is alive and active. Iīve been traveling with a couple buddies for a while now; Manuel from Oz who I ...
Taganga, Parque Nacional Tayrona, Santa Marta
This is a top pick! ... cans of beer to bottles of cooking gas. A beer at the Local, Santa Marta Style Our last stop on Colombia's Caribbean coast is Santa Marta, a fairly nondescript town on the west side of Tayrona National Park. Here, the shops double as bars and put ...
Still Alive in Colombia
This is a top pick! ... met in Australia but he lives in Medellin. I will contact him when I arrive. In addition, last week I met a couple vacationing here in Santa Marta and we became good friends. He is a "famous" (sort of) rock star in Colombia and his wife is an actress. I ...
Poor but happy!
This is a top pick! ... bags tightly, waiting for the gunmen/robbers to jump out of the bushes. Nothing. We checked into a hotel and wandered around Santa Marta. Nothing.... we walked up and down Santa Martaīs pleasant promenade watching as the families laughed and joked on the ...
Kieran goes drinking, hilarity ensues...
This is a top pick! ... Tea Bag, Tea Tree etc... 04:00am - The bar closes, but T-Shirt wants to kick on thanks to the couple of grams of Colombia's finest coursing through his body. Apparently a gram is US$4, and 95% pure. David looks like death warmed up, so takes his leave ...
Lounginī
This is a top pick! ... or so, then headed to Medellin (again) to see some friends and watch our new hometeam, Nacional kick some butt. Came to Colombia for three weeks, stayed for two months! Serious refiguring to do on the rest of the itinerary me thinks... Hasta la ...
The colorful side of Colombia
This is a top pick! ... one of their top export products; cocaine. Itīs everywhere! Itīs easy to get, high quality, and cheap. In 1999, Colombia exported about 460 tons of the stuff, bringing billions of dollars into the country and representing a significant portion of their ...
Police searches and buses
This is a top pick! Ever found yourself somewhere so hot that the compulsory cold showers have you screaming "not cold enough!"? That's Santa Marta. The sea breeze eventually rises from its slumber and offers some relief in the evening, but by then my clothes have taken on a ...
Slaving away in Santa Marta
This is a top pick! ... and indirect object pronouns; things none of us have thought of since grade school. Things have quieted down somewhat here in Santa Marta as it's the tourist low season and there are fewer crazy Europeans and Israelis running around to stir things up. ...
Beach time in Colombia
It's a bit of a whistlestop tour of Colombia so the next day we get a minivan to Santa Marta along the coast. And yes, the driving here is just as crazy as Peru and Ecuador- for such a laidback continent they do lack patience when it comes to ...
Great Parties and The Found City
... from some fellow travellers). A colourful open sided Landcruiser pulled up outside and the adveture began, the initial drive out of Santa Marta took approximately 1 hour before we turned onto a dirt track and climbed for around 45 minutes into the Sierra ...
La Ciudad Perdida Lost City
... may be another city of similar magnitude deeper in the mountains. the ruins are in the jungle, a rugged two daysī hike from santa marta. they were only "discovered" (the cogi, an idigenous group descended from the tayronas, have known about the city for ...
Time zones and humiditiy
... , preying we wouldnīt get kidnapped. And we didnīt!!! We like to think of that as a minor victory. The Don and Gibblets 1 - Colombia 0. Santa Marta is an alright town, not really that much going on there from what we could, and by this point we were ...
The Lost City Trek
... the Lost City. We learned about the head shaman and the monthly gathering of the men in the city. Spaniards arrived in Santa Marta in 1525. When the Tyronas, who were the people of the Lost City, heard that their people were being ...
The Santa Magna Marta
... which was enjoyed under some shelter and with a beer in hand. Friday 29th July There was going to be a festival in Santa Marta that weekend but unfortunately we were leaving for Venezuela. The streets were lined with stepped seats…..going up to ...
Hello Caribbean!
... next day we checked out of that hostel and found a cheaper one with a pool – excellent! Spent the day exploring Santa Marta. Key features include its temperature, which is pretty high, especially compared to the places we'd been the last few ...