every day of my life seems to be a workout after hiking seven hours yesterday
in the national park i'm heading to another nature paradise if you guys are coming all the way out to
tyrona national park then i would highly recommend you also look into going to the area called minka
that is where i'm headed today i have a driver that is picking me up to take me to
just santa marta i think and then they are taking us in a 4x4 jeep because there is no
other way to get to the amazing accommodation that i have booked
so hard to see from the moment we arrive
cornelia you are one who
you put smiles on everyone i think of you and of all i should have done
you told me
and now you
so it was in minka where things got interesting where i switched over to my driver who was in
the jeep and who was going to take me the rest of the way to get to minka is fairly simple you can
get there with a taxi but if you have a resort that is much higher in the mountains you will
absolutely need to have a jeep drive you there or take a motorbike taxi it was a super bumpy ride
um to get there but that is why you have a professional drive you do not attempt to drive
i think in colombia in general on your own but especially on these roads the view is absolutely
beautiful and i had heard um that this hostel that i booked casas viejas by messiah
is supposed to be one of the best hostels in all of latin america all right so we are having lunch
and i just met up with these two fabulous ladies alicia and adriana we actually met um
santa marta um but you guys have been here for uh one night now or
so out of 10 what would you rate this place
absolutely well like the food already looks
phenomenal it's like a set menu vegetarian or meat every single day yeah and
snacks together yeah free unlimited coffee this is phil hi phil
would you like to go
would you like to go with me
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this may very well be the best hostel that i have ever stayed at like look
look at this phenomenal view that i have sitting in a rocking chair right outside of my room and
you guys i am paying 20 20 canadian dollars a night like this is absolutely phenomenal
the people here seem super chill and i'm so excited that i'm gonna have six full nights here
but as always i am on the more cautious side when staying at hostels i really don't like when people
are you know super loud or turn the light on in the middle of the night but luckily luckily i do
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so i'm here with my two instagram wives here but ladies just wanted to ask you like what brings
you to colombia like why did you guys choose to come here good question uh mainly because it's
cold at home i guess yeah austria nice yeah it's called yeah yeah i always heard it's amazing i've
been backpacking south america before and everybody said colombia is the place to be
okay see that's interesting because like you know as a female solo traveler everybody told
me it was like so dangerous to come here and i have found it actually a bit dangerous but
like how have you guys found it i mean so far i think it was actually quite fine but i think
it also would usually compare to yeah it would be a bit street smart often it's okay to travel
around right but yeah be cautious yeah so far it was actually fine for us yeah okay yeah i
think it's only one one week one and a half weeks i've been here i think bogota and like
i think the bigger cities might be a bit more sketchy but like that's true it's just like super
nice top number one place people should see in colombia in your opinion we haven't seen that much
so far i think this here is pretty yeah i love it here yeah really beautiful
yeah but i mean i think i'm not sure i mean yeah so far we don't see booger towns
amazing but i really prefer it here so far yeah amazing
so i've never been at a hostel that has a cheese board
ladies can you concur amazing and wine and wine so good we've got a sunset coming up here as well
so friends we are about to head out on a little adventure here there is a waterfall
i guess here in minka that's super famous that everybody does a hike to so that is what we are
doing today and at the end of the waterfall hike i guess there's also a coffee plantation called
la victoria that you can take a tour of so if i'm not too exhausted i might do that as well
do
so while i wait for the tour they actually gave me a cup of coffee to try i assume
it's going to be very similar to what we have at the hostel but still very good
that is really good i'm actually not a fan of coffee that's i guess considered to be super
light like really you know acidic the fruity sort of nose that's not my cup of coffee but i really
like the coffee here where it's much more robust like very deep very flavorful it's really nice
so that is it my friends i hope you enjoyed this beautiful video
of minka this is definitely one of the top areas to visit in colombia and if you are already
on the caribbean coast it's not that much more so to just come down here for a couple of days
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fantastic day i'm sending you lots of love and keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
would you like to go with others
would you like to go with me