Decameron Galeon - Santa Marta

... reluctant at first, but he reassured me that it would be fine and all I had to do was keep the needle on the compass at 90 degrees. So I said I would give it a shot. It was actually a lot harder than it looks because when you turn the wheel to the starboard side (right side) the needle on the compass goes to the left (port side) and then I would try to correct myself and I would over correct myself, so the first 2 minutes we pretty much ...

... were trying to find Nemo, Pa got his head shaved &amp; worked on his tan, he did a good job. Now fits in with locals very well, we feel a lot safer. <br><br>We met some good people in the hostel and enjoyed a few good nights out in the Mirador &amp; La Puerta. One night in particular, the power went out in the bar and instead of fixing the problem they brought in a welder to entertain us. Very, very strange....<br>Brian missed this as he was catching up on some sleep ...

... coast to Sierra Nevada. ARRECIFESLocated 45 minutes from Santa Marta and you arrive there passing the main entrance of the Tayrona Park, after a ecotourist walk through the tropical jungle. Arrecifes is a marvellous untouched beach with a beautiful natural landscape where you also will find campsites and restaurants.There is also a fresh water stream ...

Iz Parka Tayrone, prelijepe plaze na karipskome moru, zaputili smo se u ****-whole Taganga. Tamo smo ocajnicki trazili tv da mozemo gledati utakmicu Engleska-Hrvatska sto je u biti bila jaaako losa ideja uzeci u obzir da smo popusili ko veliki (5:1). Taganga je prilicno ruzno ribarsko mjesto gdje se moze roniti ili ici za ciudad perdida iliti izgubljeni grad, nesto slicno Machu Picchu. Nakon sto smo ...

... br>And arriving right on sunset, lucky to only just avoid having to walk in the dark, we were greeted by Jorge the owner, and were quick to realise that we really had just reached a little piece of paradise. But first there was one thing we needed to do... run across the sand, into the waves, and soak our stresses away. And then be fed with a delicious meal of curried fish and veg, cooked with love of course, drink a cold beer, and sleep ...

... same day as our flight. Talk about last minute. Our red eye flight was terrible. We had the middle row section of seats and in front of us was a wall so there was no place to put our bags or stretch out our feet. We were directly next to the bathroom and the TV was too close and so bright it made it more difficult to sleep.<br><br>We eventually made it, got our bags, and met the Aviatur person at the airport to take us to the hotel (about a 4 hour ...

... Colombia. We still had the south of Colombia to explore, the coffee zone and Popayan. <br><br>At 10am we joined other backpackers and headed for Tyronna Park. We had agreed a price of $55mil pesos each. This included the $30mil pesos entrance fee to the park. We could probably have cut some costs by getting a collective to Santa Marta, then a collectivo to the entrance. I had read that there was a jeep you could get from the entrance which took you deep ...

... hotel area several times. In fact in was uncomfortably full. Christie and I had booked just three seats for the four of us to share, it was just about manageable and fortunately for us we had got on first. The last of our passengers were a family of five with two very young children, and they had to split up, the children restlessly sitting on their parents laps. On top of this the road to Santa Marta had plenty of bumps and unfinished roads to negotiate which didn&#8217;t make the ...

... in a rain coat and had put on all of his clothes to sleep. I only had a towel to cover myself, so I curled up in a ball as well as I could in a hammock and even tried sleeping on the floor where there was a short wall to shelter me from the wind. <br><br>The day at the beach and gorgeousness the next morning made up for the poor sleep. We ate our breakfast of bread and coffee and started planning our departure for an more secluded ...