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Apart from being in the zona cafetera Salento is known as the gateway to the Cocora valley where the the wax palm, the highest palm trees in the world (they can reach 60 meters) grow. Every traveler we met talked … Continue reading
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Salento, about 7 hours driving south of Medellin, is a little and quite town in the zona cafetera – the coffee zone. The hills around are full of, obviously, coffee plantation. They claim Colombia has the best coffee in the … Continue reading
A small and picturesque village about 2 hours away from Medellin. Both we and Mehdi and Imen rented cars and knowing that it would be hard to follow each other driving to Guatape we decided to meet at the town’s … Continue reading
There is something special about this city. Some would call it ‘energy’ others ‘atmosphere’ but one thing is certain, Medellin is not like any other city we have ever visited. The city look huge. And with more than 3 millions … Continue reading
One hot day we decide to catch the local bus to Taganga, a small fishermen village about 10 minutes to the north of Santa Marta. Taganga is a well known backpackers destination mainly for its proximity with the Tayrona National … Continue reading
Emails sent via SSB during the crossing from Bonaire to Colombia. Bye bye Bonaire Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 5:28 PM After one amazing month of swimming with fishes in the turquoise waters of Bonaire we felt ready to … Continue reading
[Still trying to catch up with the blog. This post from Puerto Rico is old – somewhere around May 2017…] Apparently it is not only us who fell in love with these cows of the sea (link here) they seem … Continue reading
[Again, we are late, very late with our blog. And we did some mess also. We will try to catch up now by going quickly backwards with the blog entries we did not publish yet… We visited Isla Caja de … Continue reading
These are emails we sent during our crossing from Puerto Rico to Curacao between the 9-12 of May. … Continue reading
We left Gran Turk at 1540 on the 12th of April. Destination – Puerto Rico, about 350 miles further south east. These are the emails we sent during that crossing. … Continue reading