Santa Marta Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Day 1: Punta Hermosa, Monday
We left Cartagena marina about 630 this morning with Allways Sunday, our buddy boat we found at the Cartagena Marina, they are a young sailing couple so we both though this excursion would be best for both boats if we traveled together) close behind and headed around Boca Grande and into the Caribbean. It was real...

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Just a few days prior to our trip, we were looking at slides that my mother sent me of beautiful places in the world. To my surprise, many of the places I couldn't recognize. There was one picture of tall building on a thin strip of land that I was especially curious about where it was. I didn't know that I would see that exact s...

The following morning a local man turned up and asked us if we would like to learn how cocaine is made. Hmm. There was a honeymooning Colombian couple in our group (that´s another story) who were horrified, quite understandably, but the rest of us had to find out. In this case curiosity could indeed kill the cat as the man was incredibly fid...

I DROVE ALL NIGHT TO GET TO YOU, IS THAT ALRIGHT? The boys have no got the kite surfing bug bad and they do not want to hang around or go visit any towns or cities so we drive right past Caracus and keep on going! I was gutted! I wanted to see every Capital city in South America and wanted to visit the most dangerous one! Not a chance with these...

Our trip to Santa Marta was our first experience of driving in Colombia. The landscape soon changed as we left the city and soon saw farmers with donkeys, cacti and people fishing. Everything was very brown as we headed inland until we got closer to the coast again near the river. There were heaps of people making their living at the road toll g...

Mosquitoes are the enemy! Ciudad Perdida (The Lost City) - This city is about 3000 years old and was inhabited by the Tyrona Indians. The city was deserted for unknown reasons and rediscovered in the 1970s by tomb raiders looking for valuable artifacts. These tomb raiders were soon driven out by the local police force and archaeologists took ove...

So out of the 33 countries I´ve been to so far, this place probably has THE MOST beautiful women I have ever seen. Better than Spain, Croatia, Slovenia, USA, England, you name it. All the women here take care of themselves like it´s their job. They all wear tight jeans and bikini. It´s as if they take classes on runway walking in primary school....