Taganga

Taganga is a dirty version of Oudshoorn at the sea. Advertised as a tropical paradise, our unfortunate experience was of a deep, cliff-lined bay oozing with natural beauty painted in plastic bags, dead fish and a constant sewage smell in the background.

The landscape itself was not tropical but rather a dry little Karoo scene with acacia-type trees and prickly  pear bushes.

It is really sad to see the total disregard of nature and its beauty that is shown locals. The rubbish lies all over and we witnessed on more than one occasion garbage just being tossed from a second story window.

We did however meet some great people at our backpackers, namely Tycho and Sured - two dutch boys boys who joined us for Tayrona - and Klara and Leif, a relaxed German couple who we will be meeting in Palomino.

Our stay in Taganga was luckily short we were soon off Tayrona National Park.

Lunch with the Europeans.