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Narcotics-inspection in the port of Baru

June 12, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

3 days after leaving the Land Cruiser at the terminal in Varu, we were contacted and picked up by our forwarding agent in Cartagena for the obligatory narcotics inspection. Inside the port-terminal, the owner of each vehicle was instructed to park in a designated area. The vehicles were lined up on the dock, waiting for […]

Hasta la vista Colombia

June 11, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

We spent the end of our tour in Varu (some kilometers south of Cartagena) and the last days in an Airbnb in the Crespo-barrio in Cartagena. Before shipping the Land Cruiser from the vehicle-terminal in Baru, we stayed about 12 days at the beach camping “Isla Mar”. First, we were the only ones, but after […]

Inside the “bubble”

May 22, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

After spending days in the Sierra Nevada wilderness, we were offered the opportunity to spend some days at a private resort close to Santa Marta. As we arrived, we ate some lunch in the heat of a restaurant just behind the resort, while still waiting for keys and green light for entering the parking with […]

Granja Cinduli, Sierra Nevada

May 17, 2025 by oyvinkyvik

While at the coast of Northern Colombia (north of Santa Marta) at Palomino staying at a out of season beach camping site (we were the only campers for several days), we decided that we wanted to visit Sierra Nevada. We considered doing the 5-day hike to Ciudad Perdida, but we frankly neither liked the price […]