Welcome to the tropics! Most people come to Santa Marta to organise hiking tours to visit Cuidad Perdida (The Lost City) or to visit Tayrona National Park. We skipped the 20 hour bus journey and flew as flights were under $100US. We arrived it was hot hot hot and hadn't rained for days. Our hostel was great – a bit of a party place, but actually enforced its rules of 12am music off and bar closed. We met some nice people there and had a fantastic air conditioned ensuite room so we stayed a few days longer.
Bernard really wanted to do the lost city, but so many people said that walked in the wet season (ie May – September) made it a very difficult and at times quite miserable trip (ie hiking in soaking wet clothes/boots for 6 days). We understood why – two out of the four days we were in Santa Marta it rained quite heavily ALL day. But in between those days we had lovely hot weather. On those days we went to the cinema (watched the Fast and Furious 5) and went to the Tayrona NP to enjoy their isolated and pristine beaches. We even bumped into our Slovakian friends on the local bus which was a pleasant surprise. Santa Marta is a pretty grim town – getting home from dinner in nearby village of Taganga the road was blocked by burning car tyres. Even the taxi driver was aprehensive at this point, half expecting the car to be held up on the back streets we took to get back to the hostel. Nothing happened of course. Our few days at the Dreamer Hostel were really great and we were excited to be making our way to Cartagena and onward to San Blas.
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