C-C-C-Carribean

Villa Leyva was beautiful. A very spanish like village with cobbled streets, horse drawn carts, church bells tolling, great food and crafts and friendly people. We went on a country side hike to a fossil museum (Glens choice. I'm an avid disliker of Dinosaurs) and saw some fantastic houses which may or may not be owned by drug lords. We then took a bus to San Gil which is apparently the "adventure capital" of Colombia but to Glen's dismay there was not a bike to be found. It was a bit of a let down but did have a beautiful park and we discovered Panzerottis (pizzas folded in half).

We then headed to Bucuramanga and discovered an overnight bus to Santa Marta which we gladly booked ourselves onto after asking if it was dangerous...
Us: Is it peligroso?
Signorina: No, why do you ask?
Us: Its just that all our guidebooks tell us not to travel at night.
Signorina: Pffff.
So after checking out the nearby village of Giron, much like Villa Leyva, we got on the freezing aircon bus and explored SantaMarta for a day.

Santa Marta is just a busy seaside city that smells alot like fish. We stayed for a night and headed to the fishing village of Tagonga where we stayed last night in a beautiful hostel with a great view of the Carribean and a 30sec walk into the ocean that's the temp of tepid water. Yesterday we caught a boat to some fabulous snorkelling and saw 1000's of multicoloured tropical fish and coral of all shapes and sizes. This together with freshly caught fish for lunch and about 5 mango smoothies in 24 hours has really set us up for a beachside life for a couple of weeks.

We may head to Arrecifes today or tomorrow for more snorkelling and beach/jungle camping and then meander down the coast to catch our yacht to Panama.

Happy Mother's Day to our Mum's. We love you!