Resort Santa Marta Colombia

... eaten alive on the left side of his back and shoulder ha ha it was so funny he was really upset… Someone back in Santa Marta had told us about another place further away that you can stay at called Isabella, that has a pool and air-con cabanas so ...

... so I was forced into speaking with taxi drivers, coach companies and cafe proprietors in order to change our travel tickets for Santa Marta, a Caribbean coast town in the sun. Taganga, a small fishing village that nestles in a sandy cove surrounded by ...

... half hours. Once again it took us an hour or two to get an apartment in El Rodadero which is a resort suburb just outside the main town of Santa Marta. After looking at some really horrible apartments we finally found one that was right on the beach with ...

... exactly as I´d imagined Colombia to look like. Loads of jungle and green hills and mountains, coffee and bananas! When we arrived in Santa Marta we walked off our bus and into a furnace. No sooner had we taken two steps than we were a big sweaty ...

After a long bus ride from Merida to Maracaibo ($12), Maracaibo to Maicao ($7), Maicao to Santa Marta ($13), I arrived in sunny Santa Marta. Presently, I am sitting on a computer in Mayamar Hotel here. This place is the defination of a backpacker´s ...

After a long travel day to get back into Colombia it was really nice to finally get back to Santa Marta. The next morning we were really excited to get to Zuana Resort, a timeshare that Jack and Sylvia gave us for a week (Love you guys). We ...

... 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 "S.America on $320" funds were more than 90% drained. I renewed the job hunt. Looking for work in Santa Marta was a miserable occupation. Torrential heat loomed in the sky, sweeping down to take all Samarios as its energy-absorbed captives. ...

... we are sailing with kept calling us on the radio to asked if we turned on our power boosters) Santa Marta is a very nice little town, it's a resort town for Colombians with lots of hotels, condos, and restaurants along the beach. We were surprised that ...

... cold air con on, which results in little sleep and crankiness! The only saving grace of this trip was that when we got off at Santa Marta, before getting a taxi to Taganga, it was very very hot outside, which was still a novelty for us in Colombia. So the ...

... ; 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 isn't all ...

... mignon at Casa de Felipe, the backpacker's paradise resort with multi-level hammock lounges and glorious jungle landscaping. Santa Marta's beach, just a short minivan ride from Taganga, was delightfully peaceful compared to our tout-filled experience in ...

... just thinking about it. After lunch we caught a colectivo to the Rodadero beach. Rodadero is a resort town just a few km to the west of Santa Marta. Turns out it's where the Colombian middle class goes on vacation, which they had ...

... we decided to eat lunch and ride back to our hotel in time for some more R&R at the preferred beach near Eco-Habs Resort.  Had a good dinner since we now know to order fish and then spent some time watching fireflies & lightning from our ...

HE SAID: 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 ...

... the last few days were spent making our way back from Tayrona park to Cartagena which required us to stop for one night in Santa Marta and to enjoy another beautiful summer evening in the old town of Cartagena. After three weeks of travel such as this, ...

... the logic but somewhere there's gotta be some rational.    So, after much fanfare, we get to Rodadero, just south of Santa Marta, which by all rights should be an hour, maybe two hour affair, but we have managed to stretch it into an odyssey ...

... the kidnapping for three months of eight foreign tourists by the ELN in 2003, and this is what I booked through Hotel Miramar in Santa Marta. I was collected from the Maramar in Santa Marta in a large Toyota Landcruiser and met the rest of the group. ...