Good morning, guys, from San Andres, Colombia.
Today is day number one, our first full day where we're going to be
exploring different places in this area of San Andres.
This island is so unknown to Americans.
So many people since I posted
on my Instagram story are like, where is that place?
What is there to do there? I've never heard of it.
And in this video, guys,
we're going to show you so many great things to do, islands around here,
what there is to do on San Andres and so much more.
(Brian) Good morning, everyone.
So we're actually off the coast of,
surprisingly, Nicaragua, but yes, this is a Colombian territory.
We are technically in Colombia. Today
we've got a full agenda.
We're going to be going to Johnny Cayo or Johnny Johnny Kay, Johnny Key, as they say it.
We've also got Aquario, we've got the mangroves.
We've got a couple other spots I couldn't
catch the name on, and we got it for sixty five thousand
pesos per person,
so a total of one hundred thirty thousand for the two of us.
And this is going to be starting here at about 10:00 and we're going to ride all
the way through till about 5:00 p.m.
and so I would say a good seven hours.
So make sure you stick around till the end of this video, because the things to do
are not in any specific order of best tours.
It's just simply how we decided to do them in our itinerary for the next four days.
We just made it on our boat.
Bugatti for the day. Check it out.
We got our man here
Buenos Diaz!
All right, guys, we just made it to Johnny Cay
which is our first stop of the day.
Wow, it is choppy out there.
I will tell you, if you brought a big camera out like I
did, I am just hoping that it dries out and the salt water did not destroy it.
We were getting soaked, it was a fun time.
But had I known we were going to be ripping
through those waves and we were just going to be getting soaked.
I mean, look at me I'm drenched.
I would have for sure put the camera away.
So lesson learned.
Hopefully it's not an expensive lesson.
In any event, we made it and now we're at Johnny Cay.
It doesn't seem that big,
but it seems like a total vibe, super blue water, gift shops around here.
We got Brian just kicking it right here and (We got smacked by that water.)
Yeah, we got smacked by it. (Gopros only for that ride) yeah
Gopros only.
And here we are, our little meeting point right here.
First stop was to get a little Pina Colada and what are those,
(Coco Loco, Pina Colada) Coco Loco, yeah
and let me tell you, they do not skimp on the alcohol.
I took one sip and I was like, jeez, I'm going to need a water.
They brought me one without alcohol
and they said, oh, you want alcohol
I said, sure, they gave me the whole bottle, yo, yo, no.
So they take care, this is about like seven dollars per person.
So, I mean, it's obviously not your cheapest you're going to find in Colombia,
but we're on an island from an island in the middle of the Caribbean
so, you know, you really can't beat it.
Let's go check out the island.
The beach is looking really good.
Super blue water also super choppy at the same time.
We got a plane flying and probably not the place that I can fly the drone.
We're going to explore the island a little
bit, see what's here, and then we're going to head to the water.
All right, guys so one of the super cool parts about
Johnny Cay Island is that they have Iguanas here.
And these iguanas are classically conditioned by us humans to
eat food directly out of your hands.
See which one is the most daring one, as they say in Spanish, quién.
quiere a comer?
Who wants to eat.
We might have a taker here. Oh we've got a taker, we've got a taker.
Yes see? Just chowing right out of your hand.
Te Gusta Mi Amigo? Do you like it, my friend?
And that's another reason why you want to come to Johnny Cay Island because
this is a pretty cool experience being this close to these little guys.
They seem pretty friendly.
But it looks like they only want to chow, so make sure you're ready.
One thing I want to mention, guys,
if you do a similar tour like us, where you find one of those boats that we
hopped on, just know that right when you get off at Johnny Cay, there's going to be a guy
that basically brings you over to this set of tables right behind me.
Basically, he's kind of just like
a middleman for restaurants to get those tourist prices.
And so if you just say, hey, I'm not hungry and we weren't, we weren't
actually hungry at the time, so we didn't buy food from him.
But later after we swam, we found the prices being way cheaper.
I mean, they're still a little more
expensive than like normal prices because we're on an island off an island.
But it'll definitely cut your prices like 50 percent.
So just know that.
And now we're going to head on over to our next spot of the trip in San Andres.
Let's go.
To get back on these boats is wild, let me take that sand off there.
They're not too bad if you don't mind getting wet.
Yeah.
They're like when there's more boats at once they're all fighting for the space
and these waves will just rock, like basically knock, I didn't know the right word.
And I literally had to nose dive under the front of the boat with a backpack,
literally have so much camera gear, I mean, like one false move
this thing is done so, good news is we're enroute to the next spot.
Hasta la juego.
Next on the list is to stop over at the mangroves,
also known as Mangrales de Old Point. Here you can find the mangrove species trees
and see a cool contrast when the water is clear.
Unfortunately, it was pretty mucky when we went, but it was still pretty cool to see
the mangroves, see the different bird species and cruise through that area.
But onto the next spot guys.
During your boat trip, make a stopover at the shipwreck.
Unfortunately, I don't even know how long
it's been here because I took two separate boats and both captains told me different
answers between 10 and 20 years ago that this shipwreck happened.
And you can't even fact check them online because there's not much information.
But it's worth checking out for sure.
All right, guys, we just got to our next stop on the boat trip here.
And, como se llama la isla?
Acuario. It's this long, like, really small stretch beach.
If you see, we have water coming up on one side.
Then you come over to the other side,
the water is touching the other side. Basically, at any point, you're under water
on both sides of the island, it's super cool.
You can get drinks here.
A drink here will cost you about 20 pesos, (twenty thousand) twenty thousand
pesos, which comes out to roughly like six, five, six dollars.
So not too bad when you're here on the island.
You need to come see mi amigo
(Joshua) Joshua, (Joshua), Joshua,
Joshua has a very cheap boat cruise that'll take you all around this areas for a
very good price.
And it is awesome, we're zipping through the water.
We're seeing shipwrecks.
We're doing so many things
so let's go ahead and see if we can get the drone up.
It's a bit windy, but I think we're going to show you guys some good aerials.
All right, guys, that was an amazing first day exploring some of San Andres.
It's time to get some Zs because we have
so much more to show you over the next couple of days.
Good night.
Day two of the San Andres adventures continue
with it being my 28th birthday. So Brian and I are renting actually one
of these right here for the next, I think full day rental.
Now I just got on this guy's motorbike and I'm going to pay for it now
so, the adventures
continue to be great here at San Andres.
We're with our friends here, Carla,
and Tamara, who are actually islanders from San Andres. Hola chicas.
Hola. We have Brian driving here, too.
So it's going to be a scary day with him
behind the wheel, but it's going to be a fun day.
We're going to show you all around this 10
mile island that has around sixty seven thousand people that live here.
So let's go ahead and do it.
Good morning, everyone. Here we are close to the airport,
actually, right on the beach, and you'll see behind me on this fence
line is actually some work that Tamara here and Carla helped assist in making out
of recycled plastics, including bottle caps. Over there, the fish, the stingray, iguana,
and the (parrotfish) parrotfish as well.
That was the parrotfish? (Yes)
When you're in a San Andres, it's very necessary when you're cruising
around the island to make sure you stop and grab some fresh coconuts.
We got our man here who's taking care of us.
Five thousand pesos for a fresh coconut, sliced right here.
I wish I liked coconut water,
but everyone else here is going to enjoy it. I got myself a little Cerveza para juevar
One to go.
Oh, that tastes good.
All right let's keep going.
When you're cruising around the island,
there's a lot of great stops you can do, there are signs to get photos.
You can actually also see right now all of the
damage from the hurricane in November, there was a hurricane that basically took out all of these areas.
If you look here, some of these area you used
to be able to cliff jump and swim in this area.
And it has just been absolutely annihilated by the hurricane.
So it's pretty interesting to see this
and I bet you can tell from the drone footage so much more from that perspective
up there how crazy the impacts were from the hurricanes here in November.
So let's keep going. We're going to show you guys the southern
part of the island, which is, as they say, even more beautiful.
We just got to this spot where it was actually ravaged by the hurricane.
As you can see here, there's not too much going on now.
Back in November, there's a hurricane here
and now they're trying to rebuild it at the moment.
So you got people from Colombia coming here doing some swimming and they've got
a nice little diving board, going to test that out.
The water is super blue here, so let's do it.
(Speaking Spanish)
So this is definitely a place you guys
will want to come and check out as you heard it.
This is this high pressured blowhole right
here where the water just comes flying through a great place to get a photo.
Great place to see nature's wonders
go wild in San Andres.
Oh, wow.
All right, wait for it from this angle, wait for it
Oh my God, look at that.
You just get drenched here.
Great spot to grab a photo. Hopefully you can hear this,
the music is blaring. There are a lot of good shops,
there's a lot going on here.
It is so worth a stop to see this blowhole. It is high pressure
so do not put your face over that.
Guys, that blowhole was freaking insane.
Nature just blows my mind constantly.
The more places I go, the more I am just in awe. That little blowhole
you could see those huge waves coming in and just blowing up.
I hope those sound effects were spot on.
But once you go a little bit further down
the road on the southern tip of San Andres, you can actually stop
right here where you have palm trees surrounding us.
And as you can see down here, they're doing a little photo shoot.
It's a great spot to get some, like,
super cool road mixed with nature, palm trees shots.
So definitely keep cruising on down,
like I said, the southern tip right along this beautiful and rigid coast.
It is amazing.
Cheese.
All right, guys, we are here at our next thing to do here in San Andres.
As you can see behind me, in most of my videos,
I was trying to get in a big sunset, which is what we have here today.
And where we're at is at the I Love SAI so if you put that in Google Maps
you'll find it right away, I love S-A-I
and the great part is if you don't have
any drinks with you, there's a bunch of people
you can stop and see on the way, vendors who sell fresh coconuts, mine is
loaded with a nice little marguerita in this thing with rum
and you pull up here, you got a nice sunset to hang out, enjoy it so. If you rent
what we rented, which is one of these puppies, what do you call it again?
(that's a UTV, side-by-side)
You can take this thing, cruise over here,
it is a great way to see the island.
So the Colombian family we met earlier
when we were at the I heart SAI sign, they met us back here
and then we made our way actually over to this yacht boat party.
Basically, it was a big dance party, all you can drink for a few hours
and it was one of the highlights of San Andres.
I highly recommend it.
All right, goodnight!
Guys,
today is day number three of our excursions here in San Andres.
And actually, it's pretty crazy what happened.
So yesterday we're exploring all around the island.
And we ended up meeting a really cool
Colombian family who we went out on this boat party last night and it was insane.
And then they invited us to come on this pontoon boat for today.
And so now we're out here exploring more
of the place. Here with my Spanish family that we met yesterday
and they're awesome.
(Speaking Spanish)
We're going to drink, we're going to swim, we're going to do everything today. Vamos!
So this day was awesome because we had a little bit more flexibility on what we
wanted to do since it was a private pontoon boat rental.
So they took us to some of the same spots, but also some new spots that we had
not experienced on the first boat cruise we did.
And so it was really cool to be able to go to other spots like this one where a bunch
of boats meet up and then there's floating bars you can swim out to.
And also you can snorkel in this area
because as you can see, the water is so, so clear.
You could see a lot of fish and it was really, really beautiful.
Then later on, we went to some of the stops
we went on the other day as well,
which was Acuario as well as the shipwreck,
which were beautiful to see. The journey with the fam
in Colombia continues as we just went looking for starfish and we found one right here.
So if you're coming here in the areas
that are super clear, that's not where you're going to find them.
Well, when you're in the areas that are
a little bit darker, that is where you're going to find some super cool starfish
so, this time in San Andres has been so amazing.
Colombia! Vamos!
Today is our last and final day here in the island of San Andres,
where we're going to be doing a little parasailing with the squad here, Hola, Hola
and yeah, it's about one hundred and sixty thousand pesos per person,
which is roughly 50 dollars per person to be able to go parasailing.
It's going to be my first time doing it.
I hear it's pretty similar to paragliding,
which I did my first time when we were in Medellin.
So let's go ahead and get after it.
Such a fun time going parasailing, guys,
there are so many things you can do when you're coming to San Andres,
this is just a small perspective of some of the things we did.
But I can tell you there's other things like going scuba diving.
It's actually one of the best places in the Caribbean to go scuba diving.
If I was certified, I for sure would have gone.
But definitely next time I come
to San Andres, I'm going to be doing that and checking out more of the island.
I had so much fun going there. The locals were great,
the food was delicious, and it was pretty affordable overall
to spend just about five days, four nights there.
So I loved it so much
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