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Dear all,
is Tayrona a scam?? Can the beaches really be more pretty than the ones outside the national park?? Is it raining there??
We spent quite some time thinking about whether we should go to Tayrona national park or not. In the end we decided to do so - even though we already spent quite some time at the caribean coast. The plan was to hike through the park rather than spending a lot of time at the beaches (as everyone else seems to do).
We entered the park through a less popular entry and hiked 2 hours through the jungle like hilly territory. We reached a sacred site from the indigenous people in the park and there met the first other tourist (so it wasn't as crowded as we feared). From there we continued another hour climbing over giant rocks - the landscape looked like Obelix had had a bad temper and thrown a lot of huge stones on the path - and admiring the different types of salamanders (our favorite is an orange one with neon blue tail!).
When suddenly the forest and the stones disappeared a magnificent beach was revealed to us with cristal clear water in blue and green shades (Cabo de San Juan). What a blast after arriving completely sweaty! We also met our spanish friends again (whom we had seen off the day before)....and decided to spend the night in the park. We spent so much time on the beach that we only arrived at the camping site at the very last sunlight of the day and accompanied by quite a lot of bats. Anna was relieved when she heared that they only eat fruit (different from bats in many other regions we have passed).
We had a great time and enjoyed the different beaches bedded in the jungle a lot - see pics. We even had some beaches to ourselves due to the unstable weather conditions (it rained at night and was cloudy some times during the day).
To make up for the extra time spent on the beach we took the night bus to Bucaramanga which lies in the interior...to head for our next adventure - paragliding. See our next blog :)
Yours,
Anna & Maarten
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