Beautiful Tayrona National Park

We have spent a couple of days at the North coast of Colombia, close to the border of Venezuela near Santa Marta, in the National Park Tayrona. With its Carribean beaches and lots of lowkey campsites and little restaurants at the beach it is a perfect place to chill out and relax a few days. We loved it! I never knew that holidaying in the Carribean could be so cheap!!!

We took a 6 hr bus to the National Park and then had to walk for an hour through tropical dense and very humid forest to get to Arrecifes. It has a few campsites and some straw roofs with hammocks underneath and very basic facilities. But cold beer is available as well as fresh fish and tons of fresh and exotic fruit. What else do you need?

The area being tropical it rained like mad every afternoon but our belongings were safely tucked away in our tent, so we just stayed on the beach and waited for the weather to pass. Usually it did not bring the desired drop in temperatures but was still somewhat refreshing! I found it really hard to cope with the temperatures and humidity at night, the tent felt a bit like a steam room to me but Craig thought the temperatures were just right!

I could not get enough of the beaches, they must be the most beautiful and abandoned I have seen in my life! I loved getting up just after sunrise and sitting on one of the giant bolders and getting splashed by the waves breaking below. Very peaceful.

I can really recommend this bit of paradise to anybody - we are now very glad we did the long trek North to get here!

Tomorrow we are flying to the other end of the country to Letitia in the middle of the Amazon Basin to watch some wildlife and then catch a boat all the way down to Manaus. How very exciting!