<--- This is how we started our day. View from the hostel, eating breakfast. We didn´t care that it was raining on us, even as it was sunny on the other side of the bay.

Or when we walked over to Playa Grande, just over those hills in this picture. There was no drenching downpour, thankfully. From Playa Grande we took a boat powered by a guy delivering beer and limes to the restaurants there to the Bay of Taganga for 5000 pesos (about $2 USD). As it seems, Taganga and the beaches around it are hardly self-sustaining, and rely on shipments of inventory from Santa Marta. There isn´t even a bakery here! Where am I supposed to get breakfast if it´s not in the hotel or one of the hippy restaurants around here??

So we went into Santa Marta. Saw a tiny art museum. Toured el Centro, found ourselves an Exito (a supermarket), and got some provisions and some of the few granadillas (some exotic fruit that looks like a smooth orange on the outside and tapioca on the inside) we will ever eat in our lifetimes, because we can only get them here in Colombia.

The weather is beautiful, but after the rain this morning, the wind that gusted through the rest of the day distracted us from the sunburn we were getting. As I write it is still very windy, and I don´t know if it is supposed to let up or not.

Everything is supposed to be closed on Monday and Tuesday for the Carnaval de Barranquilla, but we are deciding to skip it in favor of diving and Parque Tayrona. We are still currently collecting information to itinerize our upcoming week. Love to everyone!!


This is how the day ends in Taganga. :-)