Day 4
woke up super early to get picked up by magic tours. finalized some things intaganga and left for santa marta where we picked up 2 more people
hour to mountain in bumpy jeep like los llanos jeep
hour and a half up the mountain literally in jeep super bumpy
met up with rest of our group at the base camp there was 25 of us
ate a meal of subs and headed out
4 hours of hiking first day
river crossing without shoes
mules carries all of our stuff
2 really nice guides
hour and a half uphill super difficult because late night before
breaks for watermelon and looked at super cute animals
made it to first camp beautiful in the mountains
slept in hammocks after a hearty meal and the lights went out
also great first day to swim in the river jumping off rocks
Day 5
woke up early to leave and hike another 4 hours. pretty easy hiking
more uphill and stops for fruit and swimming
more river crossing
camp on river and swam to cool off
weather was always really hot and always covered in sweat
slept in beds that night
really pretty stars
ran into the kogi people the indigenous people of the land
Day 6 new years eve
Hiked another 5 hours to get to camp. camp three had hammocks
got to camp for lunch and then right after we hiked to the lost city
tons of uphill steps
1200 steps
really cool uphill after river crossing
made it to the site for group pictures
had a history lesson about the site and now for tourism after people destroyed a lot of it looking for gold
military presense all the time
big site and lots to look at
went to the military camp for an overview picture
eventually hiked back in the rain
scary on the downhill steps
got back and started to get dark
ate food and started drinking for new years
fire down by the river with drums and singing
taught some american drinking games to people from 9 different countries
guides brought us aguardiente the local drink in colombia
very drunk by midnight and barely made it
day 7 new years day
woke up early to hike back to camp one
first part of the hike was super easy and relaxing
stopeed at camp 2 to get some lunch and then went to a camp near camp one
second part of the hike was really hard so we were all really tired when we got there
sat around and chilled and talked
our group was all really great and fun
most of them were young
we were the youngest ones
day 8
left early to head back down
mostly all downhill
all really tired and worn down from the trek so we were ready to get back
lots of river crossings
made it back to base camp to celebrate with good food
i had some awesome fried fish and others had carne or chicken
drove back and met up with some cool people from the trek in tanganga
really hard to find a hostel because it is now high season
walked for a while til we found one for 10 bucks a night
the lady there is super nice and accomidating
drank and went to the club in taganga sensacion
after party til around 2
day 9
woke up late and got some waffles and fruit for breakfast
decided to go to tagangas beach and just chill
tanned and read my book the girl who played with fire
stayed til sunset
got laundry done finally after really stinky clothes from trek
got food and free beer from mojito bar
went back to our hostel and passed out around 9
slept for 11 hours and finally caught up on sleep
Day 10
woke up not feeling so hot, but we are taking a bus to parque tayrona today for a couple of days
should be nice and we get an awesome student discount
should be crazy because it is high season
but looking forward to just relaxinf
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