After two attempts on a night bus in Colombia we were completely traumatized! They run like crazy and you can’t sleep, just hoping to get to your destination alive. So, to continue our trip to the north we decided to catch a flight from Medellin to Cartagena. It was perfect and we were happy.

Actually we got there super tired but it was a Saturday and we didn’t want to miss the party, so we went out, with an Israeli we met in Bolivia (Faran), to the traditional Café Havana, a Cuban salsa club with live music and very good caipirinhas, woo hoo… Finally!

Cartagena is just wonderful and exceeded all our expectations. Its charming streets filled with colorful colonial houses with their wooden balconies full of flowers look like a new postcard at every corner. The best thing to do is getting lost in the streets of the old center to admire every single detail. And that’s what we did for two days.

But unfortunately the water of whole the city was cut off for repairs and we decided to leave and follow our path through the Caribbean coast, starting with Taganga, a small fishing town that is lost in a bay just 10 minutes from Santa Marta.

The beach of Taganga is not so special but the tranquility of the small town is rewarding and a good getaway to escape the chaos of the cities. So it was perfect to relax for two days.

From there we went to visit the Tayrona National Park, a protected reserve which lays on the coast of the Caribbean, full of mountains, animals and lush green, no noise from bikes or cars, just the contact with nature.

We went along with a couple we met in Taganga (Laurance from Quebec and Linda from France) and we spent two nights at a rustic camping in the middle of the forest just listening to the sounds of nature. During the day we went hiking to enjoy the beaches and in the way the scenery was simply stunning!

Everything was going well till Alexis got sick at the end of the last day and then we returned early in the morning to Taganga to have some rest for him to recover his energies.