Wednesday, January 19, 2011

We were supposed to go to the seaside on Sunday but we woke up very late (after coming back home at 6 am from a birthday party) so we quickly, half-asleep, postponed our trip until Monday.
On Monday we woke up early but I got fed up because Orlando spent almost an hour in the bathroom taking shower and doing his hair, so at the end we left home at 10 am. We took a bus to Buenaventura on the coast and then a boat to Juanchaco. It takes an hour to get to the village by boat. This time the sea was stormy so our bottoms got really sore because of jumping up and down on the benches. When we arrived, we found two guys with motorbikes who took us to Ladrillieros village, it was exactly the same way I did it four months ago.
We stayed at the same hotel I stayed previously. I really liked it, it was clean and nobody was there apart from us. It was like having the whole appartment for ourselves, not only a room. We spent Tuesday on the beach, the waves were huge and strong. After few hours in the water we got very tired because of the constant fight with the waves (but we got very happy for this reason too). At night we met a friend from Belgium who we previously had met in Pasto at the carnival of Negros y Blancos. We had a drink in a nice wooden bar, it was pouring with rain. It rains heavily in this part of the country but it's hot at the same time. I like a lot this typical tropical climate.
The following day we went to the beach again, the waves were smaller but as strong as a day before so we had a lot of fun again. At 4 pm we took a boat to Buenaventura where we had dinner in Galleria, dirty and smelly food market. We ate typical Colombian soup called san cocho which was fantastic, very thick with a big piece of fish in the soup.
We took a bus to Cali and we arrived home late at night.