Saturday 24 August 2019.
Highlights: Orientation walk Santa Marta, Gold Museum, Farewell Dinner
A very easy day after the hard work of yesterday hiking in the heat and humidity.
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Friday 23 August 2019.
Highlights: Tayrona National Park HikeEasily the hardest physical day on the tour we had a full day hiking in the Tayrona National Park leaving the hotel at 8 am and returning around 3.30 pm. The walking part was probably 5 hours and a lot of it was ups and downs small hills.
At our furtherest point Cabo San Juan de Guia While a lot of the hike had wooden paving to avoid us damaging the park, a lot also didn’t and you were still pushing off rocks and leaning on them then or grabbing trees for support when climbing up. The heat and humidity could be a quick killer.
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Thursday 22 August 2019
Highlights: Easy Day at Taganga Beach, relaxing at poolToday was a very easy day hanging around Taganga, mostly on the beach.
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Wednesday 21 August 2019.
Highlights: La Victoria Coffee Farm visit, Pozo Azul Waterfall, and intense topical rainstormA leisurely morning allowing for us to sleep in as long as we had breakfast by 9 am and our bags were ready to be transferred to Taganga while we continued our exploration of Minca in the morning and early afternoon.
What wasn’t on the plan as an intense topical rainstorm which was great to witness since we were safely undercover at the time 🙂
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Tuesday 20 August 2019.
Highlights: 4 Wheel Drive Experience, Marinka Waterfall, Casa Elemento (Largest hammock in the world)Today was our last long drive of the tour clocking in at 5 hours as we enter the home straight. I took a few more imodium tablets during the night hoping that this would do the trick however the moment we were leaving hotel in Cartagena I required another quick visit to the toilet. Miguel escorted me to our transportation which had to move while waiting for me in the busy single lane street.
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Sunday 18 August 2019.
Highlights: Islas del Rosario National Park – Isla BellaToday was a day of relaxing on a topical island. I have selected an optional visit to Isla Bella in the Islas del Rosario National Park at a cost of 195,000 pesos (around $85 AUD). Leaving our hotel at 7.40 am and returning after 4 pm it was a day in the sun and swimming in Caribbean Sea.
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Saturday 17 August 2019
Highlights: Lost or stolen wallet, farewell dinnerToday was one of those days you remember for the wrong reasons. While leaving MedellĂn sometime between exiting our private bus and checking in my bag for the 9.53 am flight to Cartagena my wallet went missing.
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Avianca
Gate: 5
Seat: 15D (Exit Row Aisle)
Plane: A320-100
Boarded: 09.38
Pushback: 09.56
Departed: 10.05 (Scheduled 09.43)
Arrived: 10.54 (Scheduled 10.50)
Duration: 49 minutes
Distance: 473 kmsThis was the second of two flights included with the G Adventures Classic Colombia tour. This was a short flight schedule for 1 hour 3 minutes it turned out to be even less.
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Friday 16 August 2019.
Highlights: Replica town Peñol de Guatapé, Rock of Guatapé, Guatapé zocalos, tuk-tuk ride.Today was a full free day from the tour so the group split and did there own thing. Seven of us selected a day tour to Guatapé which our tour leader Miguel organised and joined us (cost 110,000 pesos). It was to be a day of amazing colours, fitness tests and great street art work.
