Today was relatively unconstructive. We spent most of the time giving our sunburned skin a break, and puttered around the hostel, reading newspapers, drinking beers, and devising plans on what to do with ourselves in the coming days. We decided to head up to Parque Nacional Tayrona tomorrow rather than later and hopefully stay there for the weekend.
We went into Santa Marta again to gather further provisions for our planned trip, like a pocketknife and radio. The downtown markets are a saturation of people, colors, and loudspeakers. Nothing whatsoever like Taganga, which keeps a relatively
quiet pace throughout the day. This here is the town cathedral in el Centro (downtown) of Santa Marta without any name that I could find, but a nice sample of architecture.Given that we don´t become jungle hermits in Tayrona, we are also penciling in a trip to Cartagena, another town about 4 hours away, which I have visited once and thought it would be good for both of us to see again.
So if you don´t hear from us over the weekend, it´s because we are in some otherwise unheard of beach looking out over the Caribbean for a fraction of the cost anywhere else. :-)
Here is a pic of me, since most of the ones we have are of Ian. Hi mom!! And families!!
Wow, sounds like fun! Jakob & I will be heading off to Panama for 9 days soon. Can't wait! When will you be back in the states?
ReplyDeleteOk I finally Figured out how to post to this thing.
ReplyDeleteAll is quiet here at home. M and I tried to post last night, but posting is a PITA here and it got lost. Hopefully this won't.
Messy is stressed out as her "free internet" quit working and now she's going to have to sign up and pay for it like everyone else.
Thanks for the monitor. It's nice. I had to fight with it to get the wide-screen display working in Linux, but I won. Very sharp and bright.
It looks and sounds like your having a great time. Very cold here yet, and I look at the pics of the beach and bright sun and am jealous.
Have fun.
P.