We knew relatively little about Colombia’s coffee zone (or Zona Cafetera) when we booked our one way shuttle to a small village called Salento, but the three nights we had in this gem of a town were enough to teach us that this was a place we could definitely come back to.
With only a comparatively short time in Colombia (approximately three weeks), we decided to take advantage of the cheap domestic flights and fly from Cartagena to Medellin. In hindsight, this was a godsend as Dave was still sick from the disgusting water he had accidently swallowed whilst at Totuma Volcano and a ten hour bus ride would have been out of the question.
We arrived into Cartagena pretty late at night following a lengthy 12-hour transit from Capurgana and it wasn’t until the next morning that we got our first real glimpse of what a beautiful place Colombia’s largest seaside city truly is.