Parque Nacional Tayrona

Last week we took a bus out of Santa Marta and to the Tayrona National Park.
We were hoping to see some real South American jungle with its wildlife and also whats left of the old abandonned city of the Pueblo- Indians, Pueblito.

The busride itself was an experience already. After crossing a very funky market we found 'el autobus', our bags were put on the roof and on we went! Turned out, the driver was an absolute nutter.

After entering the eastern entrance of the park we had to take another bus that took us over a very bumpy dirttrack to the starting point of our hike. On we went and we were not disappointed. We saw the amazing 'leaf cutter ants' we all know from the museum and/ or bbc earth, caymans, these cute little crocodiles, spiders far too big to be cute, the famous 'jesus christ lizard' in action and last but not least the black wasp that stings a tarantula and lays her egg inside the body - also in action.

Our plan to sleep in the wild in our own hammocks was changed quickly when that massive black cloud built up and it started to drizzle. Unfortunately we had set up our little camp already.
We found shelter in the restaurant of a little camping where we stayed for the night. There we met these israelan guys that showed us this very funny drinking game.

On the second day we started early after a chocolate bar- breakfast towards Pueblito. The hike was more intense than we had expected but we were rewarded by many new sights such as a group of monkeysclimbing through the tree tops, eyeing us curiously, more strange spiders and of course the quite impressive leftovers of the indigens' city- how did they get all these rocks over there?

After an even more intense hike we reached the western entrance in the early afternoon and caught the bus back to Santa Marta; we all fell asleep.