4/13
After the Lost City Trek, Elisha and I were dropped off at the entrance to Tayrona National Park. Once in the park, we hiked through the jungle to get to the beach area. Once we hit the beach we walked partly along beach and partly through jungle until reaching the beach of Arrecifes where we would be sleeping. After getting set up, we went for a walk along the beach and then made some dinner before retiring to our hammocks. Our hammocks were inside a screen enclosed space; however, the screen had lots of holes, and soon we realized that there were mosquitoes everywhere and that it would not be a fun night. In the next camp over, we had noticed that those hammocks had individual nets over them. We figured that this would be better, so we snuck over to those hammocks. Unfortunately, these didn't work much better bc the hammock mosquito nets would touch our body in certain areas and the mosquitos could bite through the net! So it was a rough night, and I definitely got quite a lot of bites.
4/14
We woke up early (due to the mosquitoes waking us up, not the pounding surf that our hammocks looked out across) and walked west along the coast. First we walked along our large stretch of beach and then back into the jungle in order to get to several more beaches. Our final destination for the day were the gorgeous beachs along Cabo San Juan. These white sand beaches were framed with giant granite boulders on either side, green jungle hills behind, and emerald Caribbean water in the front. Tayrona is beautiful an unique because its beaches and jungle are filled with these massive boulders. It makes the area, especially the beaches very picturesque. It is also beautiful because the jungle clad mountains come right down to the beach and the water is a gorgeous color especially when the sun shines on it.
We swam, walked, and relaxed along the beaches. There were coconut trees all around, so we found a coconut and opened it up (sans tools). We also enjoyed fresh mangos on the beach that we had packed in. (Lucas buddy, wish you had been there, for some reason the mangos aren't quite as sweet without you and Sari Berry there!)
In the afternoon, we walked back along the beaches and into the jungle to get back to the entrance. From there we took a bus back to Taganga where we had some street food and a fresh fish meal.
After the Lost City Trek, Elisha and I were dropped off at the entrance to Tayrona National Park. Once in the park, we hiked through the jungle to get to the beach area. Once we hit the beach we walked partly along beach and partly through jungle until reaching the beach of Arrecifes where we would be sleeping. After getting set up, we went for a walk along the beach and then made some dinner before retiring to our hammocks. Our hammocks were inside a screen enclosed space; however, the screen had lots of holes, and soon we realized that there were mosquitoes everywhere and that it would not be a fun night. In the next camp over, we had noticed that those hammocks had individual nets over them. We figured that this would be better, so we snuck over to those hammocks. Unfortunately, these didn't work much better bc the hammock mosquito nets would touch our body in certain areas and the mosquitos could bite through the net! So it was a rough night, and I definitely got quite a lot of bites.
4/14
We woke up early (due to the mosquitoes waking us up, not the pounding surf that our hammocks looked out across) and walked west along the coast. First we walked along our large stretch of beach and then back into the jungle in order to get to several more beaches. Our final destination for the day were the gorgeous beachs along Cabo San Juan. These white sand beaches were framed with giant granite boulders on either side, green jungle hills behind, and emerald Caribbean water in the front. Tayrona is beautiful an unique because its beaches and jungle are filled with these massive boulders. It makes the area, especially the beaches very picturesque. It is also beautiful because the jungle clad mountains come right down to the beach and the water is a gorgeous color especially when the sun shines on it.
We swam, walked, and relaxed along the beaches. There were coconut trees all around, so we found a coconut and opened it up (sans tools). We also enjoyed fresh mangos on the beach that we had packed in. (Lucas buddy, wish you had been there, for some reason the mangos aren't quite as sweet without you and Sari Berry there!)
In the afternoon, we walked back along the beaches and into the jungle to get back to the entrance. From there we took a bus back to Taganga where we had some street food and a fresh fish meal.
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