Travel Adventure - Backpacking Latin America's Gringo Trail Backpacking Latin America starting in Cuba, then travelling from East to the west coast of Mexico before making our through Central and finishing in South America.

The untouched beauty of Tayrona National Park and Colombia making everything hard for us

Monday, 10 Aug 2015 | Views [494]

So we were a bit more organised this morning and went to the bus stop to hail down our bus. 'Look for the green and blue bus with Tayrona on the sign - They'll spot and stop for you' the girl from the hostel said. It took about half squinting trying ... Read more >

Tags: beach, beautiful, cabo san juan, camping, cards, flights, tayrona national park

A longer stay in Santa Marta than expected

Monday, 10 Aug 2015 | Views [430]

It was a hot 4 hour bus ride to Santa Marta. The driver wasn't very good - brake happy and almost running in to bike riders. We arrived at Dreamer hostel which we emailed but were too late to respond so they called Drop Bear hostel for us and we got ... Read more >

Tags: beach, cartel, hostel, rodadero, santa marta, tourist, town

The beauty and charm of Cartegena

Monday, 10 Aug 2015 | Views [537]

We changed hostels the following morning to a popular one called Media Luna which had a pool. It's so humid here, the pool kind of sold us. Kate and Adam (Melbourne) and Sam and Fred (England) were staying here too and we all had breakfast at a nice ... Read more >

Tags: beauty, bougainvillea, buildings, cartegena, charm, city, pretty, sunset, town, walled city

Photos: Colombia

Monday, 10 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery