Mud volcano and Coveñas

Trip Start Jul 22, 2008
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Trip End Jun 20, 2009


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Monday, May 4, 2009

    What a great weekend in Monteria! Went to the mud volcano on Saturday. Weirdest feeling ever! Much like I assume being put into a bucket of cement would feel like! A lot of comedy moments were had, not least when I tried to get out and my bikini bottoms fell down, exposing one very muddy arse at the poor unsuspecting bystanders! Moral of the story - wear shorts to the mud volcano. At least it was next to the sea though so I was able to wash it all off after Steve eventually helped fish me out (after much laughing). I looked like something from "The Lord of the Rings". Watch this space for comedy photography! The volcano is sulphour mud so smells pretty bad but is good for your skin (apparently). My skin did feel rather good after though. You can actually feel the sulphour gases bubbling up under your feet, and if you actually made it to the middle (I got stuck on my belly several times trying to swim it, much to the amusement of the locals) you can be where the big bubbles are.
    Then on Sunday we went to Coveņas beach about an hour and a half from Monteria. It would be a beautiful beach if people would stop throwing their rubbish everywhere. I was walking peacefully along the beach, enjoying the view, when I almost stepped on a big piece of medical waste - an IV bag complete with needle and someone's blood still in the tube - and a little kid playing in the water 10 feet away. This seems to be a big problem with almost every Colombian beach I've visited so far. Recycling is non existent - with the exception of the poor who hoke through the bins at night looking for things to re-use - and people don't teach their kids to pick up their rubbish and put it in a bin. And why should they when they have a muchacha (maid) to pick up after them anyway?! Such a shame as the beaches here are beautiful!
    I'm heading back to Barranquilla tomorrow, back to work, but not much time left, only a few weeks!
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