Day 10 – Parque Tayrona

Today we booked a tour to Paque Tayrona a national park between our hotel and Santa Marta. After further upsetting a large group of German’s at breakfast this morning (they want our table – the very table i am writing this blog at now) so that there whole group can sit together however instead of […]

Day 9 – Floating Down the Rio Don Diego

Today we floated down the Rio Don Diego – i opted to leave my iPhone in the backpack even though the case is waterproof. While I wish I had taken it, I don’t think that I would have got very good photos. Our guide Rafael picked us up from the hotel at 8 and we […]

Day 8 – Bogota to Santa Marta

Today we transited from Bogota to Santa Marta. Unfortunately during the night Stu and Jayenne developed food poisoning. We have no idea what they ate in common but the worst seems to be over now although we had to call the doctor for Stu because we were worried about flying especially as Stu couldn’t regulate […]

Day 7 Hike Day – La Chorrera and El Chiflon

We were going to have a free day today but decided we would do the tour out to La Chorrera and El Chiflon waterfalls which are on the way to a town called Choachi. Our guide Carlos picked us up with his niece Margarita who was still on school holidays. I am probably going to […]

Day 6

Posted this the wrong way please follow the link to my blog about the salt mines https://davstuholidays.wordpress.com/day-6-salt-mines-of-nemocon Edited with BlogPad Pro

Day 5 – Free Day in Bogota

Today is our free day in Bogota and as it happens to be Sunday it coincides with flea market day. Jaimes who owns the cafe i go to before work every day suggested we go to Parque Usaquen. The hotel suggested we walk to a market in the city which in their words was bigger […]

Cooking school – how to make Arepas

We booked into a cooking school at the Masaya Hostel run by Mario the night manager. The lesson was making arepas. Its a corn bread with a very simple recipe – corn flour, salt, water and oil. We tried these at a restaurant in Brisbane and they were a bit nothing. These were amazing and […]

First Cocktails of The Trip

I know Stu and i had cocktails in Anaheim however this is our first as a group. So here are the photos. Edited with BlogPad Pro

Day 4 – City Tour

Today we were booked in for a grafiti tour and a half day city tour. Luckily i re-read my voucher for the afternoon city tour as we had to reconfirm via e-mail and my confirmation came back that the driver would be there in 10 minutes. As luck would have it our half day tour […]

Day 3 – Transit to Colombia

Today was transit day – no pictures alas unless you want to see the inside of LAX and PTY. We have arrived safely in Bogota, and got to the Masaya Hostel about 12:30. The altitude here in Bogota is 2670 meters so I’m feeling a little groggy from the altitude and 5 hours sleep. The […]