Work was intensive these last weeks, lots of interviews, new people to train. etc… So Adriana and me took a long weekend to the Caribbean. A German pal opened a small, but beautiful Lodge close to Capurgana, which is close to the border to Panama. To get there we took the long way… 9 hours from Medellin to Turbo by bus. From there about three hours on a fast boat to Acandi. The boat was jumping so heavily and just locals seem to have the privilege to get the calm seats in the back, so our backs really hurted really badly. On the spot we decided to fly back to Medellin from Capurgana (which doesn’t have a street connection to the rest of Colombia…). From Acandi it was just another 30 minutes to get to Aguacate Bay.

We stayed at Bahia Lodge, a nice Lodge run by Lothar. He had been working two years to get the Lodge running, but recently in December he opened to the public. It’s located at a beautiful liltte bay with a nice beach. Depending on the year the waves get so big, so swimming sometimes isn’t possible.

From Bahia Lodge it’s about one hours walk to Capurgana and in all 2,5 hours to get to “Playa Miel”, already Panama.

Enough said, here are the pics…

Sabaneta is a nice, charming little town in Colombia. For some years, it’s part of the “Zona Metropolitana de Medellin” as Medellin grew and grew, it accumilated Sabaneta. Sabaneta nevertheless hasn’t lost its charm. The fondas – the little bars, where football is shown and usually men hang out watching a soccer game – are more typical then in any other part of Medellin. The life takes place around the main square, where every night some food stalls invite zou to have a snack. Here are some impressions using my Nikon D90

I can’t even remember when I had my last night in a tent… Must have been somewhere in Patagonia some years ago. Adriana is a nature-lover, so this weekend we finally had our first camping expirience. We went to “Piedra Blanca” a well accessible “reserva natural”. It’s just about an hours drive from our apartment. And it’s just going up, and up, and up. It’s about 900 metres above Medellin and the climate and scenery is comparable to the one in Bogota.

Enough said, here are some pics from the weekend…