Hola Do !
Je voyage moi aussi en
Colombie et doit rejoindre un couple de français et un couple
suisse vers
Turbo.
Peut-etre les connais-tu...
J ai donc fait quelques recherches sur le coin voici un lien sur ce que j ai trouvé :
www.lonelyplanet.com/...a?messageID=15564182
Je te mets les passages les plus intéressants, bonne lecture et à bientot
:
Capurgana,
Arboletes, and Monteria My
Colombia travel book (Footprints, published Jan 2009) says that there is an even better/bigger mud volcano called Volcan de Lodo near
Arboletes in
Cordoba.
My
Colombia book says that
Capurgana used to be dangerous, but that an army base there has made it a pretty safe place to go, and can be visited by airplane or by boat from
Turbo. It says nothing about any dangers of traveling in
Cordoba by land.
My family in
Colombia is suggesting that I either not go to
Capurgana, or if I do go, that I at least go by airplane. They say it's not very safe to ride a bus in
Cordoba because all of the rich cattle farms there are an attraction for violent criminals. They also say taking a boat from
Turbo/
Arboletes to
Capurgana is dangerous.
2 that area is completely safe and is been traveled all the time by locals and tourists (local and foreign).
capurgana is an amaizing place and youll enjoy there a lot, i don't think there are boat arriving there from any place other than
turbo.
if you want any more information about traveling in
colombia you can send me and email and ill be glad to help. yadid10@hotmail.com
another way to get updated information is to ask the police. you can call to 113 and ask which number is it, there is a police line in every capital that have online information about the roads and security.
3 We finally decided to go to
Capurgana despite my family's warnings, and overall I'm pretty happy we did. It took FOREVER to get there because we took a bus 8 hrs from B/manga to
Medellin, 8 hrs bus from
Medellin to
Turbo, spent the night in
Turbo, and then a 3 hr boat ride to
Capurgana.
The snorkeling there was quite good. Significantly better than
Cartagena, although not as good as
Hawaii. A shark graveyard and a
manta ray were the highlights, and beautiful coral and numerous colorful fish were commonplace.
The beaches were beautiful as promised.
The food options were fairly limited (not surprising considering how small it is), but the quality was good. Grilled steak, chicken, or fish rice patacon was pretty much every meal other than breakfast (eggs).
As far as accommodations,
Capurgana is one of the places in
Colombia I think it's worth spurgling for air-conditioning. We stayed at a super budget hostel the first night ($6/night/person) with no air-conditioning and some fans. Mosquitos absolutely destroyed us and my back was sore the next day because the bed was pretty terrible. The next night we switched to a room with air-con and better beds ($10/night/person), and slept MUCH better (mostly b/c of the lack of mosquito access to the room), although it still got very hot in the room around 4 am because the power goes out in
Capurgana at 2am, and not all hotels have their own generators.
Overall I'm pretty pleased that we went there.
