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Has anyone done any diving in Colombia/Ecuador, or gotten open water certified there? I'm looking for a good, cheap place to do it.
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DustingDuvet posted:Taganga (15 minutes away from Santa Marta) is the cheapest place to get the PADI in Colombia. Awesome, I'm heading to Bogota on Thursday and want to be up there in a couple weeks. Thanks!
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Mar 8, 2009 23:27
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One more question for those who have been there, were there any vaccinations or drugs you needed while down there? I keep reading that some places may require proof of a yellow fever vaccine, but it's easiest to get once there.
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Mar 10, 2009 22:15
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Just a word of warning to anyone going to Bogota soon, there have been a lot of muggings the last few weeks in la Candelaria (more than normal) around the hostels. At least half the people Ive talked to recently were mugged at knife or brokenglasspoint, specifically around the Platypus and Hostel Sue, myself included. Choose where youre walking carefully everybody! Other than that Colombia owns. Im in Cartagena and heading up to Playa Blanca and Taganga in a few days. Anyone else in the area?
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Mar 22, 2009 01:49
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Got back from Ciudad Perdida yesterday and it was amazing, but I´m unfortunately cursed with bad travel luck: on the way back down from the departure town, our tour car was stopped by two paramilitaries in ski masks with pistols. They told us to get out of the car, and then after a minute the yelled at us to run down the hill. The six of us and our tour guide quickly left but they told the driver to stay, and as soon as we were around the first corner we heard about 7 shots and we took off running. We ran down for about 10 minutes before we got to within sight of the army checkpoint, at which point they loaded their rifles and sprinted up the road. More army and police showed up and they later told us that they had killed the driver and pushed our tour car off the cliff. Amazingly enough they were able to recover all our bags which were strapped to the top of it and the only thing that was busted was my Nalgene bottle. Spent most of the night in the police station, but there were some officials from the local government there and they were amazingly helpful and apologetic and put us up in a nice hotel for the night. I was later told that it wasn´t even the regular driver and he was just doing it as a favour to the owner of the company. I still love Colombia, but I don´t know how much longer I´m going to stay now :/ EDIT: Oh yeah we got transported to the police station in the back of a covered flatbed truck with the body in the middle leaking blood out the bag. Molotov Yogurt fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Apr 6, 2009 |
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Hey DustingDuvet, I´m back in Bogota now and will be here for a few more weeks while I wait for a new passport; do you know of any good places that offer short term Spanish courses or have a flexible schedules? Also if anyone was interested here´s a local article of the shooting that I posted about above quote:Policía no ha podido establecer los
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