We had a very long day getting to Colombia. We spent the night in a massive Venezualan city called Maracaibo, just 100km from the border and left at the very early hour of 5.30am in order to give us plenty of crossing time in case of a lunch time closure. It was a very eventful day- many road blocks, queues, a departure tax to pay which was twice the amount we had been currently told, dodgy fixers, a $30 visa fee which didn't go anywhere (probably pocketed), a few more queues, some very angry locals, a few packet of crisps for lunch, more sitting around and then 6 hours later we were into Colombia with half an hour extra time to our day!
Our first real stop in Colombia was a beach campsite near Santa Marta. It was lovely. For 2 days we all relaxed with lots of swimming (or rather braving the huge waves), eating, reading books or in my case lots of sleeping.
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