Tim and Sally's Round the World Trip 2010-2011: Colombia to Panama via San Blas

The walled city at Cartagena

We spent a couple of days in Bogota which is a great city - the white chocolate crepes are fantastic! From there we caught a bus up to Cartagena which was a monster journey of 26 hours the air con was set to about -5 too, which meant we couldn't sleep - until some nice guy gave me his blanket as he got off the bus, typical Colombian- really friendly.

Cartagena from the boat

We spent a couple of days in Cartagena which is apparently where they filmed romancing the stone. It has an old walled city which is really beautiful. From there we organised a 5 day boat ride to Panama via the San Blas Islands.

The boat was a catamaran and the first day and night we spent on the open sea so it was pretty rough. We had to do an hour of night watch, which I was rubbish at because I was being sick! Luckily Tim was with me so he took over.

Dolphins!

During the day on the second day there were dolphins playing by the boat for about 20 mins. It was lovely, there was a whole pod there.

San Blas - the first evening

The next evening we finally got to the San Blas islands which are a collection of islands in the Caribbean sea and are beautiful, like a mini paradise. We spent the next couple of days snorkelling and exploring some of the islands and feeling hungry! The boat had 8 other people on it, all German speaking and there was never enough food- the food was Austrian/German too, with no meat. We had pancakes for dinner 2 of the 4 nights - me and Tim were not impressed! Apart from that it was a great trip. It is especially good to be in the warm weather again. We had a lot of fun using the underwater camera too!