Riohacha, Colombia 🇨🇴

We slept well after our hike yesterday and enjoyed a leisurely breakfast of boiled eggs, overlooking the lush forest. Once we were ready to go, we checked out and crossed the road to hail a bus. We were on the main road to Riohacha, and managed to get one easily enough.

The bus took us back up to the coast, through Palomino and onto Riohacha, where our tour tomorrow would leave from. It is still sweltering hot, so once we arrive at our friendly B&B (run by a Canadian guy) we sort our tour packing out into day bags in the comfort of the air conditioning. 

We take a walk to the main plaza, seeing the Cathedral and managing to get money out to pay our tour balance. We then stroll up the wide beach and along the short wooden pier, people watching. It doesn’t feel like a busy town and it feels very ‘out of season’. 

Polly has found a good restaurant that we walk to for dinner, enjoying grilled octopus and chicken pasta. We don’t know what the tour will be like for food, so we take the precaution of eating now as a carb building excercise.