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Good evening, sorry i haven´t updated for a while but we ended up going to taganga for several days. Santa Marta was horrible, hot, windy and dirty with a rubbish beach. So we took a ten minute taxi journey to Taganga AKA paradise!!
A beautiful beach, plenty of fresh, cheap food, cheap drink and stayed in a hostel that was actually on the beach, with a room with a balcony, hammock and seaview...as i said paridise.
Now the originaly plan was to do our PADI certified scuba diving course here, because it is the CHEAPEST IN THE WORLD. $240 for a three day course including equipment rent, book, and the oppurtunity of 6 dives. It was worth every penny. The first day we started off in the swimming pool to learn about how to use the equipment, emergency procedures, and most importantly learning to breathe through a regulator (The most important rule in scuba diving NEVER HOLD YOUR BREATH, you will die from decompression sickness or lung overexpansion...not nice!)
So after our first day of scuba school we went back to the room to study for the exam which was to be taken on the third, day. and we had to study a gruelling thick scuba book (although to be fair, i got bored, only did the end of chapter questions whilst amy and domicella ^(a new adopted travelling buddy!!) nerded up and read the whole thing). This did work out to their advantage, both getting in the 90´s % whilst i scraped a pass with 88%, but hey a pass is a pass!!
The second day involved two non-optional dives in the ocean to do certain excercises at a mere 6m underwater and learnt something very important...THE OCEAN IS COLD!! even at 24 degrees with a wetsuit, it is very cold, and im not gud with the cold! Therefore me and amy (and a few others) opted out of the third dive and went back to warm and study some more!! (geeks!)
Then came the third day, two more dives and an optional dive. However this time at the maximum bottom depth of a a newly certified open water diver of 18m....one word- PHENOMINAL! the fish were amazing, seeing stone fish, scorpianfish, morayn eels, lobsters and bright orange seahorses!!). This time i manned up and took the third dive, and it was definatly worth it! (especially as the girls who waited on the boat got sunburnt..oops!)
So yer that was taganga, sun, sea sand and alot of alcohol on the last night!!.
I am not in bogota, where we will catch a 30 hour bus to the ecuadorian border tommorow, depending on how i feel as i picked up a bit of a stomach bug (standard with travelling!). and then down to lima for our much anticipated Inca Trail!! :D:D:D
Again i am not too sure when i will be able to update so watch this space!
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