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Columbia: volcano swimming

Written by guest 24 November 2009 3 Comments

vulkan ganz kl Columbia: volcano swimming

Beauty usually comes last on adventurous backpacking trips through Colombia. The showers are cold and cockroachy, you sweat under coconut oil skin, your hair is dried out from the ocean and the sun and manicure suddenly sounds like a city in France. So, if you happen to be in the neighborhood of a volcano that is filled with beautifying mud rather than bone-burning lava – just go for it. An hour out of Cartagena you climb up a 300m deep mud filled volcano. Take off your clothes and jump right into this natural spa. In the beginning it is a very strange feeling, floating on the grey mud, the consistency of which resembles that of a Mc Donald’s chocolate milkshake. Not being able to get your legs down, you just hang around and feel like an alien that has just landed at a space Spa. The braver ladies among us gave it a try and went for a dive, but getting a massage from the friendly guy next to you is just as good an idea. There are arms and legs everywhere and it is the weirdest and funniest hour you’ll ever have and that you’ll never forget in all your life. When you’ve taken up enough minerals, make sure to hold on to your bikini bottom, because all the mud inside will make it fall down when you climb out – something that’ll surely amuse the twenty others behind you. This option becoimes particularly interesting when the boys go up as your newly won insight will help you figure out who to sit next to on your way back to the hotel.

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3 Comments »

  • katja said:

    i did this too! fun times!
    although the massages from the guys and the ladies that later wash you in the lake are a little too touchy-feely for my taste. (since none of them are cute)

    # 24 November 2009 at 4:28 am
  • Juli Fox said:

    … and me to. It was one of the best experiences that I ever had.

    # 27 December 2009 at 9:16 pm
  • Juan said:

    ColOmbia!

    # 1 February 2010 at 6:38 am

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