Kuna Yala: Paradise at The End of The Sea
Kuna Yala: Paradise at The End of The Sea by Mira Nencheva It’s a beautiful sunny day in Kuna Yala. A few white clouds slowly sailing in the sky, the sea calm, transparent and sparkling in the sun. A wet blue landscape in every direction. Small islands of fine white-and-pink sand covered in tall coconut […]
From Colombia to Kuna Yala
Last time we took you from Santa Marta to Cartagena. Fasten your lifejackets and get ready to sail to our next destination: The San Blas Islands (or Kuna Yala) in Panama! A beach in Kuna Yala It was one of our strangest passages so far. One of our “longest” passages too. After over a year island-hopping in the […]
Sailing to Cartagena de Indias
Pegasos Monument, Cartagena, Colombia The time came to sail again – 100 nautical miles from Santa Marta to Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, past the dreaded Barranquilla Cape and the Magdalena River delta. We waited again for the best possible weather conditions – light 15-20 knot winds and 1-2 meter waves for 2-3 consecutive days. […]
Santa Marta and Aracataca
Santa Marta was our home for a month and the base for a few thrilling inland explorations to other parts of Colombia. It was not a perfect home, yet one we will always remember with much tenderness. Notorious for its violent winds gathering speed down the slopes of the highest coastal mountain in the world- Sierra Nevada […]
Turtles Gone Wild
One cloudy day we got up early and took the bus to Rodadero, a few kilometers from Santa Marta. There we met our Colombian friends Cata and Sebastian at the Deep Coral dive shop, and together we drove to Casa Grande Surf Beach in Tayrona. There were a lot of people already there and more were […]
Minca’s Waterfalls
Marinka Waterfall At the heart of the world, on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, rises Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated mountain in the shape of a pyramid with high snow-covered peaks reaching 18,700 ft. This is the tallest coastal mountain in the world. Source of 36 rivers and home of 30,000 indigenous […]
Diving in Colombia
Scuba divers Underwater the world is different. Dark, cold, dense, slow and mysteriously silent. You hear only your own breathing. You hear your thoughts. You hear muffled sounds sometimes- faraway thunders and gentle bells- but it is hard to determine where they come from. Yet, most of the time the underwater world is mute and […]
Camping in Tayrona
Tayrona Tayrona, El Cabo As we approached the shore sailing to Colombia I felt the familiar burnt smell of dry old land. I inhaled deeply, tasting with much pleasure and for the first time in my life the bitter dust of the New World. What cities, what people, what nature is expecting us? I couldn’t […]
Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira
Zipaquira Our last destination while visiting Bogota was Zipaquira, 50 km north of the capital, one of the most ancient human settlements in the Americas where the Muisca people used to live before the Spanish conquest, and the place where we found “The Number One Wonder of Colombia”. From the hostel near La Candelaria we […]
Monserrate, El Dorado and the Museum of Gold in Bogota
Monserrate The second day of our visit in Bogota started with a very steep hiking up Mount Monserrate, 3152 m, one of Bogota’s symbols. In the early years of the 17th century the mountain becomes a favorite place for pilgrimage for devout Catholics and in 1650 begins the building of a temple, which still receives […]
