Hotel Playa Ltda Cartagena

... into. The strangest thing was you were actually 2500m above solid ground, but you couldn't sink. Literally any position you get yourself into you will float, you can even sit crossed legged. It was very relaxing, you got a massage as well if you wanted it. At the end you had to go down to the edge of a lake where a group of old ladies basically strip you down and wash all the mud off. As Jemma found out they tend to do it without warning which makes you jump straight into ...

... it wouldn't work but she was having none of it. As soon as I sat down she tried to give me a foot massage, persistant as anything. We all got very tired very quickly of saying 'no gracias'. They eventually left us alone but not before the two boys had bought some cigars, a watch and had toyed with the idea of hats. <br><br>The beach wasn't much to write home about but it had the sea and it was so hot outside that even ...

... each). You could refuse all these services but I was feeling generous today, these locals need make a living and to feed their families I guess.<br><br>On the way back to Cartagena we stopped off at the designated lunch restaurant. It was a beach location, a bit dirty with grey sand. Our collectivo passengers were the only visitors to the area. We spent an hour splashing in the waves. We had decided to opt out of lunch, we had learnt our lesson about what ...

... people. I am just sweaty, hot, and hungry, but happy to have experienced another proof ex negativo of who I am today. After that I take a shower. Why not write a story about my seven-second fight with gravity and the soap? They have every right to be honored here. The soap is a piece of cheap red perfumed soap I bought in Santa Cruz for my private bump who refused to use it. It's very slippery but it does what it should do: take away the sweat. I keep it in a plastic bag so that it doesn ...

... the river. I jumped back as they did. Took there pictures and found out that they are not commonly seen and are very poisonous. Good thing they were having sex when I came upon them. I found a horse shoe and had it in my pocket so now I have that with my travels for luck. We took a speed boat for two hours, a jeep ride with me riding in the back with the bags for half the trip for four hours and then a small bus ride for four ...

... to the big 3.<br><br><br>Arriving in Piura we check into a cheap hotel and track down two local girls (Mapi and Carmen) who we met in Valparaiso. They have offered to show us around their part of Peru and with a phone call we meet up for dinner and plan to spend a weekend at a friend's beach house an hour away.<br><br><br>Saturday March 07th and Sunday March 8th<br><br><br>REST DAYS: PIURA AND COLAN<br><br><br>Before heading out to Colan Playa, we bump into a Norwegian backpacker near our ...

... Que chimba marica! Am Tag drauf habe ich mich mit Douglas auf den Weg zur Playa Blanca gemacht. Wir wollten ein oder zwei Tage dort am Strand bleiben und dann nach Cartagena zurückkehren. Auf der Fahrt dorthin haben wir Bekanntschaft mit fünf Jungs aus Irland gemacht, die mich von dem Tag an noch weiter begleiten werden... Nachdem sich also die sechs Jungs jeweils zu zweit ein Zimmer direkt am ...

... to find a boat. In the end, because there is no b*s (or road) across the Darien gap to Panama, we had no option but to book a 230USD flight. We did manage to squeeze in some rum time in the hostel courtyard and celebrated a supertramp birthday with a fancy dinner. Cartagena is a cool old fortified city with surrounding walls and a maze of cobbled streets to walk around. We blame the oppresive heat for us ...

... strange experience. And the weirdest part was getting out of the pit! With my swimsuit on, the guys in the pit pushing me towards the stairs and once I finally reached it, started climbing up, but it was really difficult but I managed to eventually. But yuck...! Once my bottom was out of the bit, you could feel how the mud had slid INTO my swimsuit and was now all collected in the bottom of it, forming something that felt and looked like I had had a serious ...