good morning everybody it is 6am here on the stunning rosario islands on the caribbean sea
just off the coast of the city cartagena which i was in before this this area is considered to be
one of the most beautiful areas of colombia it's probably one of the most visited areas
fairly touristy you could say since basically the main island that we're on right now grand isle
is almost exclusively different hotels and resorts there is a small town center called eureka
kind of in the middle of it all but more or less tourism is the main business of these islands
but having said that i wouldn't say that this is a very polished
sort of island experience if you could you know compare it to some of the more you know north
american or western european sort of standards there is still a sort of rawness about this island
because there are no cars allowed on it there's no motorbikes you either have to walk or run
or bike to get around the island and most of the resorts and hotels that are on here
are more like eco resorts they're not the really fancy kind you know with all the amenities
so even though it is super touristy i would say that if you are looking for a place to just get
away from it all be in nature have some great beaches this would be a really nice place to visit
so
as i mentioned before this island does not have any vehicles on it there's literally
no roads there are only little paths like the one that i am walking on and there's definitely
no navigation on google maps about these roads fyi thank goodness that if you download the app
maps dot me and you go to this area it has literally all the little paths in the island
and it works offline which is a godsend because in most parts of this island there is no cell service
i told you guys in prior videos that i had decided to go with claro which is supposed to be the best
provider um for coverage all over colombia and it works sometimes like on certain parts of
the really open beaches it might get a little bit of a signal
but to be honest i've just been using the little bit of wi-fi that we have
at the hostel and when i'm out here on the islands i just assume i won't have cell service
okay
it is hot out today guys layer up the sunscreen would be my suggestion
but we are in the main town site uh here on the islands this is called eureka uh
it's definitely not a large town site like there are a couple of shops there's a couple of little
uh small restaurants where you can get some food but in general i would say if you have anything
you know kind of out there that you have to buy like any kind of medication obviously
even any kind of you know food stuff that you really need i'd recommend bringing it with you
to the islands because of course the selection is much less but on the other hand i would actually
say that the people who live in this town are incredibly welcoming it's also very safe like
i've walked around you know everywhere a lot of times by myself didn't have any issues and you can
definitely ask people for directions ideally if you speak good spanish but just on a whole people
really want to help you they want to welcome you to the islands and because you know tourism really
is the biggest business here i think overall they are happy to have tourists come and visit
working working yes yes after papaya soul be
so today is tuesday and i am at the town site with ika and sophie and we decided
to grab a little bit of breakfast in the town site i got a crepe with banana and
strawberries and chocolate got some coffee what did you ladies get uh ripas i think
with egg inside i don't think i've had that kind before but really cute really cute
foreign
so funny story my google translate wasn't working so all i did to get this was i was like
flying around slap and she knew exactly what i was talking about so i got some insect repellent
for like five dollars or whatever because in the evening here it actually gets pretty bad
what are these
do you guys know what this is
i've never seen anything like that because it's not a coconut yeah can anybody reach one
oh there's a very tiny one here where okay baby oh
comment what these are if you guys know what this is i've never seen this
i don't know if you guys can see a way out in the distance with this camera view but you see the two
little islands right there both of them actually look like they have uh villas on top of them so
they are more or less private islands the rosario islands are a national park sort of area there are
27 different islands in this general vicinity and the majority of them from my understanding are on
the smaller side some are uninhabited but other ones they have basically placed a private villa
on them so it would be kind of cool because you'd have your own space your own private island nobody
else would be on there but on the other hand you wouldn't really have anything else to do you'd
have to take a boat to get everywhere else and i don't know if that comes in the villa price but
it is just kind of crazy to see these like houses coming out of these little dots of land everywhere
so
so today i decided to venture out a little ways from my hostel it's actually only like a five
minute walk but this place is called the bora bora beach club and it's definitely one of the
nicer beach clubs i would say so far that i've experienced on the island definitely a bit of a
higher end sort of ambience a really good bar and if you get just the sun beds it's free as long as
you're ordering drinks and if you want one of the like beds uh it starts at basically 30 dollars for
the day or if you get the ones that are like right up front i think it's 50 a day something like that
all right new year's eve in the tropics we have a little christmas
dinner going on here wouldn't you say caroline is it pretty good yeah yeah
right yeah it's like a coconut ceviche this is actually similar to actually one that i
had in cartagena so it's kind of cool that we have this here on a very balmy december night
oh
vamos a la playa
so
i hate to admit this but this week at the rosario islands has taught me
that i have a technology addiction yes i do even though we had fairly good wi-fi at the hostel
in one spot not everywhere but it would also go in and out and i would get so angry inside
i would be so mad and frustrated that i couldn't connect to the internet to check my instagram to
do whatever i couldn't sit peacefully for that long and that is a problem i didn't think it was
this bad but going forward i think i'm going to have to take a more serious approach to unplugging
and not having it bother me other than that i did have a fantastic time when i was able to put the
technology away i really enjoyed my time here and i would highly recommend you guys come here
and on that note i actually wanted to tell you guys how i got here i did book a private transfer
through secreto through my hostel and it was 80 000 cop i know there are some transfers that are
less expensive like you can just take a boat from central uh cartagena to the island but the
thing is they won't always drop you off at your accommodation so if it's less expensive you may
have to walk through the island and if you have a lot of luggage that's probably not a good idea
and that is it that is all i think i have to tell you guys about these beautiful islands i
would recommend coming here let me know in the comments if you have ever been to the rosario
islands and if you have any recommendations and as always i hope you guys enjoyed the
video i hope you're having a fantastic day and keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
you