San Gil

After Palomino it really was nearing the end of the holiday. We couldn’t quite, or didn’t, make it all the way from Santa Marta to San Gil in a day. I think we could have done it in retrospect, but we stayed the night in Bucaramanga. An eminently missable town I reckon, at least, if you’re short on time. We did chance across a Frenchman who was there to go climbing an hour or so South of there… apparently a really good climbing spot. Hey ho.

Anyway, next day on to San Gil, a very nice little town. Probably the Wanaka(Queenstown) of Colombia, in that it’s the adventure capital. We opted for caving, not least because it was the cheapest option ;) . I was actually quite surprised they brought regular punters down the cave.

At one point it involved a 2m duck (where you have to put your head fully under water) you can see Maaike holding a rope in one of the pics, you could use that to pull yourself along under the water … I must admit, I’ve done a little caving in NZ link, and I really never liked having to do ducks there, but the water in the cave was almost warmish. Odd.

There were bats, and their guano was a place where plants grew in the cave. Plants which would die if exposed to light (or so we’re told, seems like an odd thing for a plant to do but there you go). Nice formations too. Yes, really very happy we chose caving, it was a great way to close out the adventurous part of our Colombia holiday.

Oh, and a picture of a weird fruit..