We moved to Santa Marta for a night, and the next day said goodbye to Megan, who was heading back to Cartagena to go home, and me and Ambar set off for Palomino alone, as we'd heard you could go tubing down the river there and we thought we'd check it out. Ws spent a while trying to find the right bus on the street, turns out it wasn't as easy as 'the big old bus that says Palomino and Tayrona on the front' like the girl at the hostel said, as there were about te...

Hola Costeño beach surf camp! Although there were no waves until our last day here so we couldn't actually attempt to surf anyway, it was still a sick three days! Its such a chilled out place, about 25 minutes walk along a track, so secluded from the other places further up, with some little cabanas and wooden buildings, and a whole load of palm trees, then the beach and the sea, the only danger being from falling coconuts, or getting to drunk on rum at night! ...

The Caribbean coast, sun, sea, sand, palm trees, coconuts, lizards, rum, SANDFLIES and lots of Australians! That could pretty much describe the whole of my time in the North of Colombia! I arrived in Santa Marta with two Aussie girls, Ambar and Megan from my hostel in Cartagena. We had a short deliberation over whether to stay at La Brisa Loca, the party hostel in Santa Marta, or The Dreamer, a more chilled out hostel in between Santa Marta and Taganga, and dec...

I travelled again alone from Medellin to Cartagena, choosing to go by night bus rather than fly, despite the closeness in price, as there was noone else going that day, so the taxi to the airport, which was an hour away, would be expensive, and I was getting used to night buses anyway and didn't mind them too much. MISTAKE! The journey was really bad! The first few hours from Medellin were all uphill, downhill, round and round, hairpin turns, and really bad bu...

I travelled from Salento to Medellin with an Israeli guy Nir who was also staying in my hostel in Salento, and we arrived in the evening, with just enough time to shower before happy hour hit the bar! There I first experienced the delights of cold showers and showers without shower head, which are basically just a stream of cold water, pretty much present everywhere in North Colombia! I also discovered the joys of aguardiente, a pretty strong and not particular...