Cabo de la Vela (Cape of the Sails) is a tiny little village which can only be reached by 4x4 across the desert. Aside from fishing the main livelihood for the majority of people is from tourism although we arrived in the low season so the place was pretty much deserted. There´s not a lot to do other than sit in hammocks and watch the sea and kite surfers. Of course we spied a hill in the distance and got the driver who had taken us to drop us over at Pilon de A...

After one night in Riohacha we made our way to Uribia which is the biggest town of the Wayuu people. The Wayuu´s are the indigenous people of La Guajra province the most northern in Colombia. It´s basically desert, with cacti being used as very effective fences. Uribia is all hustle and bustle with chickens, goats and dogs swerving in and out of the cars, trucks, bikes, rickshaws and ´pedestrians´, one dog didn´t do enough swerving and was a rather unpleas...

We´re now on route up the coast towards the town of Cabo de la Vela, first stop is Riohacha, the capital of the La Guajra province. After a sweaty hour looking for somewhere to stay we found some over-priced pokey room to sleep in, Alison having got herself a ride on a motorbike as part of the search. The town is on the beach and there are loads of people just hanging out on the beach, there´s not any sunbathing going on though, it´s more of a ´let´s sit for...

I think we were both fairly content to leave Cartegena, even though it´s an incredibly beautiful city with more quaint colonial houses and balconies that you can shake a stick at, it felt time to move on. We decided to head to Taganga, a ´fishing village´just outside the sizeable town of Santa Marta. What may have once been a fishing village seems now pretty geared to international tourism, diving and backpacking in particular. Our belief that we are perhaps t...

We arrived in Cartagena on the Caribbean coast in the north of Colombia on Monday having taken 3 flights and travelled for 21 hours from Buenos Aires, remarkably with our bags also making it although they got a direct flight where as we had to go via Sao Paulo. The first thing we thought on arriving in colombia was boy it´s hot, Buenos Aires was fairly cool and actually cold on some days. We´re now north, but not that far, of the equator and it was sweltering....