Lunch in Barranquilla...in a market
In Barranquilla - sharing the road with
horse-drawn carts (and bicycles,
motorcycles, etc.)
Hotel Minca
Macaw greeter at Hotel Minca
Front walk at Hotel Minca
Minca center ... don't blink!
The local coffee-buying agency
Snack shop in Minca (loved the
little fruit sweets made from guava
and a whole lot of sugar)
Indiana Jones goes birding
Cute puppy at Hotel Minca
Liza will always find a hammock
The "lost" waterfall
And a rickety bridge that Liza
crossed (to get the waterfall view),
while Robert opted not to try
Cacao beans drying in the sun
Robert with Mark Pretti
Enjoying some mora (berry)
ice cream in Minca
Mark and Liza walking back to the
hotel
On the road to El Dorado...
check out the video ------>
Almost there! Welcome to El
Dorado
El Dorado Lodge
View from the terrace outside the
main lodge building
Main lodge building
On the trail
Robert takes a break
Our lodgings at El Dorado
More scenery
From higher up the road, about 8200
ft elevation - snow capped peaks in
the distance, palm tree silhouettes...
Big ferns!
Abelas africanizadas - oops ...
africanized bees!
Coming down the road ... really ...
photos do not do it justice
Together at El Dorado
Robert surveys the landscape...
...and catches a sunset
Coffee! (look real hard)
Carrying just a few optics
(ok some where Robert's)
Little store down the road that
had hummingbird feeders and
an eventually-obliging hermit
(that's a bird, for some of you)
Mark on the road
Back on the coast - at
Playa La Roca
More hammock time!
View of our cabana from the beach -
insert crashing wave sounds here!
Hammock outside our front door
Cabana view - we had the
first floor
In Camarones on the Guajira
Peninsula
Fish drying in the sun
Fishing boats
At Los Flamencos beach
Robert with a fellow there
to whom he delivered donated
binoculars from Sierra Vista!
Driving back to Barranquilla - checkpoints
and a tank here and there let you know
that the army was keeping an eye on
things
Bananas! As far as the eye can see...
Village scene
Clouds, water, cactus...
A name for the tourists?
But still, pretty darn good coffee
There was also a cafe in the vicinity
of our hotel