Santa Marta, Colombia 🇨🇴

Time to leave our friendly B&B and head for the big city of Santa Marta. This is the oldest city in Colombia, having been the first Spanish settlement. After a super breakfast we caught a taxi to the bus terminal and then a lovely air conditioned bus to Santa Marta which is about 4 hours away. Once we arrive on the outskirts we have to get a taxi in, a friendly guy who tries to cheat us…

We arrive unscathed and check into our hotel, we deliberately picked this hotel for the pool so we could relax in the afternoon poolside, overlooking the Cathedral. Once the sun had gone down we walked to the main pedestrian street with lots of bars and restaurants. Dinner was at a restaurant where I had excellent roast pork, reminded me of home. After dinner we walked back via the seafront which seemed very industrial rather then pretty. There were lots of families out enjoying a Sunday evening together. We strolled back to the hotel via the Simon Bolivar plaza and the Cathedral square.