AndyB24

Andrew Bray

28 / Male

Victoria, Australia

About AndyB24

Respected Member | Member since 1st Jun 06

Citizenship: Australia
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Many
Hobbies:

Scuba diving, music.

Favourite places:

Quito, Ecuador.
Mindo, Ecuador.
Huaraz, Peru.
Cairns, Australia.

Activity : photos (42) forum (167) guide (0) blog (2) diary (0) trips (2)

Latest Blog Entry

Ciudad Perdida

Posted by AndyB24 | 12th September 2007

The trip began in the dirty, smelly beachside city of Santa Marta, on the north coast of Colombia. We arrived on the birthday of the city, fiestas in the streets, concerts staged with well known colombian musicians spread throughout the city. At one of these we met some locals, who told us of another, much larger concert accross town that we should go to. Cramming into a taxi, we drove through bust streets for 15minutes until we came across a massive field surrounded by a high fence. 2 stages were set up, and 10s of thousands of people who were laughing, drinking dancing and signing. We partied the night away, chatting in broken spanish with our new found friends, finally making it back to our hostal at 3-4am.

We moved to the nearby beach town of Taganga the next day, the beaches are a little cleaner, and the attitude of the people is even more relaxed. Our hostal there was the casa de felipe, set a little out of town, on a hill. Run by a great staff of locals, it was the perfect pl

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