Santa Marta:

Santa Marta is one of the principal’s cities of Colombia. It is recognized for being a tourist, historical and a culture city. Santa Marta is the oldest city of Colombia, and is the capital of Magdalena department. This city is close to Cartagena and Barranquilla, which together conform an enormous touristic region.

                                           Santa Marta's downtown

                                           El Rodadero

Santa Marta is popular to have an area that is only a touristic part of the city; it is called “El Rodadero”. Here, at night people can go to the beach and listen some vallenatos group, and enjoy sea noises. In this part of the city you can find some restaurants, discos, hotels, and shops. Other activity that you can do in “El Rodadero” is to take a tour in a horse-drawn carriage to look at some places of the city and enjoy all the architecture and landscape of the city.

                                           Burukuka, El Rodadero

                                           Santa Marta

When you are in Santa Marta you have the opportunity to go fast and easy to other places, like Tayrona that is a Colombian natural park, or to Taganga that is a small town.

                                                  Tayrona, natural park.

                                           Cabo San Juan Beach, Tayrona.

                                                  Taganga

Taganga:

Taganga is a wonderful town, a few minutes away from Santa Marta. You can arrive here in bus or car; but when you arrive to Taganga Main Square you have to walk to the place that you have previously selected to sleep.

When I went, I choose to sleep a hostel that is named “La Tortuga”, it is in the last part of Taganga and the unique way to arrive here is walking per fifteen minutes.

                                           La Tortuga Hostel

                                           Taganga

Taganga is a beautiful place, it has a road near to the beach, where you can walk overlooking the town. Here, you can enjoy a delicious sea food, and hippie crafts.

The town is habited by fishermen, and by hippies who sell the crafts in the street that is near to the beach.