Strategy:
Transportation: Villa De leyva – Bogotá, minibus 3.5 hours, ticket price 22,000 pesos. Bogotá - Barranquilla flight time 2 hours, ticket price: $91.5. Barranquilla - Santa Marta car 2 hours, ticket price 10,000 pesos.
Accomodation: Carolina hotel with two swimming pools, great wifi, hardware and software appreciated.
After we bought our tickets to Santa Marta, we saw the news that the Colombian government had finally signed a ceasefire agreement with the rebels. That said, our next "lostcity" walking tour will largely be in danger.
It couldn't have been a great gift.
From Leiba. The town's route to Santa Marta is a bit tortuous: you'll need to take a bus back to the capital Bogotá Airport, fly to Barranquilla, and then change buses to the northernmost city in Colombia.
The bus to Bogotá was frequent, we chose to take the 7 a.m. bus driver who didn't know English, but after understanding our intentions, stopped right before the car entered downtown Bogotá, the closest place to the airport, and helped us to stop a taxi to the airport.
At the airport of the capital Bogotá, the emperor stomped around, and when he met these four sisters, he did not move. The sisters know the brother's heart very well, and one of the beauties gestures with their eyes: Shoot brother as much as you want.
Don't even think about it in China. All we can say is that the Colombian police are friendly. Or to put it more bluntly: Colombian policewomen are particularly friendly to handsome Chinese men.
As a major drug trafficker, the security checks at the capital's airport are particularly strict, and these dogs are anti-drug experts.
The emperor met a big sister at the airport gate, and this bumpy figure was almost the standard for young women in South America.
In the past, it was rare to see shoe shine stalls in airports, and this style of shoe shine stalls is very popular in South America, on the one hand, it also shows the importance that South American men attach to grooming.
Say goodbye to the capital and fly north. Because the weather is sunny and the visibility is high, overlooking this plateau land, only to see the land is green, the water is like a dragon, shining with light, and the rumored dirty mess is like two worlds.
Many times, for ordinary things/people, when we look at them from a different perspective, they often become different.
Does this one look like the celestial gods and immortals are opening a peach festival? The card C bit is super like a poodle, or a cloud-swallowing version, social dog brother! The immortal on the far right was very unhappy about this, but he was also helpless.
I got off the plane and saw the bus on the way from Barranquilla to Santa Marta. There is a sense of unity between the military and the people.
Located on the Caribbean Coast in northern Colombia, Santa Marta is named after the Gulf of Santa Marta in the northwestern foothills of the Santa Marta Mountains, 80 km from the city of Barranquilla, where the airport is located.
Founded in 1525, Santa Marta was the first city established by the Spaniards in Colombia and one of the oldest in Latin America.
This seemingly unknown city actually has two powerful hats:
Simon Bolívar died here in 1830. Simon Bolívar is known as the Liberator of South America, and almost every major city in all South American countries has a square called Bolívar. It's as if many of our cities have a road called "Zhongshan Road";
This is the gateway to lostcity, an Inca site that is said to be older than Machu Picchu.
And the reason why we deliberately went north to come here was only because we had to go on a lostcity hike from here.
Unlike Bogotá, which is close to 2,000 meters above sea level, Santa Marta, as a coastal city, gives us the first impression that it is particularly hot.
Santa Marta has many hotels converted from old buildings, which tend to be luxuriously decorated inside, and many have swimming pools attached. Guests need to identify themselves to enter, and the dirty street outside the door is like two worlds.
The first task after arrival is to go to the post office and stamp it. The post office in Colombia is by far the most irregular "institution" we have seen. Therefore, it is particularly difficult to find, and asking locals is often pointed out in all directions. This morning we asked the local girl who sneaked in english from the tour company, and she was also in the opposite direction!
Of course, as long as you are not afraid of running and breaking your leg, you can always find it.
The picture above is the post office, a bit confusing...
The main church of Santa Marta, the sky so blue, seemed to be fake.
A couple selling street art, the wife is a dwarfism patient, the gentleman can not see with his eyes. The two people have a strong sense of rhythm, they earn living expenses by selling art, and their stubbornness is admirable.
We set off from the hotel and walked the streets of downtown Santa Marta. The walls painted yellow and green are warm and thick, and the walls are filled with CDs for sale, and the stall owners throw the blue motorcycles so casually, but the people are gone, allowing pedestrians to come and visit.
Such images can always easily pull our imagination into Marquez's cholera-era love.
The next stop, we're going to the place where that love happened.
The enthusiastic stall owner uncle arranged the stall neatly and beautifully, and together with his smile, became the label of his love of life.
The old woman shrunk in the corner, so thin that it was painful.
Who is she waiting for?
The two little brothers who sell street food are very serious about wearing white shirts and masks, and they are in awe of their professions and are most respected by customers.
This hand-woven bag is called wayuu bag, which is a tribe in Colombia. This kind of bag, which is sought after by the world's fashionable and exquisite, and sells for 4 figures on a treasure, is thrown on the stall here, and the price difference is certainly not one point or two. So, it was the emperor's turn to complain: Two days ago in the town of Laiba, I said I wouldn't let you buy it, you had to buy it. Suffer it.
The village woman knew that she was wrong, so she did not say a word.
Wayuu women who make bags do not know the market price of these bags in Europe, america and China. Otherwise, you will be scared half to death.
We helped a girl who did Taobao to buy more than 30 bags, and the postage alone cost nearly 3,000 yuan...
As a Santa Marta, the happiness index of life must be very high, right? After all, pushing the door is the sea, you can change the bikini at home to swing to the beach, such a day, not many people can live.
Envy this family.
Mom's tattoo is pretty beautiful.
The couple played a little dark, didn't know what secrets they were sharing, and felt a little shy.
The beach is close to the city, and people can drag their families and bring their mouths to the waves in minutes. Regardless of whether the figure is good or not, self-confidence is the premise of the bikini.
In its early years, Santa Marta was the most rampant place for drug trafficking in Colombia. Today, people have turned gorgeously and become a coastal resort.