{"id":6942,"date":"2015-06-04T04:32:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T02:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:29:35","slug":"caribbean-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/06\/04\/karibik-wir-kommen\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean here we come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Flight from Medellin to the coast to Santa Marta<\/li>\n<li>Direct pick-up and transport to the hostel near the Tayrona National Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rucksacks are packed one more time. In Medellin a lot has been added to Niki. The <strong>worn travel clothes thrown away<\/strong>to make room for the new acquisitions. We take a taxi to the far outside<strong> Medellin International Airport<\/strong>. Having finished the usual airport procedures, our Avianca plane leaves for Santa Marta at 11.40 a.m. The <strong>probably the newest machine I have ever flown!<\/strong> We&#039;re flying to Santa Marta in an hour and a quarter. On the state-of-the-art onboard entertainment system, I watch the documentation &quot;National Geographic Photographers: The Best Job in the World&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6920\" style=\"width: 1170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_04.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-opt-id=1850530797  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6920\" src=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_04.jpg\" alt=\"During the flight\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:1170\/h:658\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_04.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/mlnnzcgf0rm9.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015_06_04.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 1 p.m. we land on the country&#039;s Caribbean coast. Already in Medellin, which is almost 1500 meters above sea level, it was 30 degrees, here is accordingly <strong>even hotter and extremely humid <\/strong>to. We have and the luxury of one <strong>direct collection at the airport<\/strong> Granted, because otherwise we would have had an expensive taxi and a subsequent bus ride ahead of us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s been here for almost <strong>has not rained for two years <\/strong>and the landscape is accordingly dry. El Ni\u00f1o years are responsible for the extraordinary drought. But just imagine a few drops of rain actually falling during our drive to the hostel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After about an hour we reach the wonderful, brand new one <strong>Hostal Monte Verde<\/strong> with swimming pool, tree house and beautiful tropical garden. We eat something before the rest of the afternoon <strong>at the pool <\/strong>spend and rest. For dinner we go to the neighboring hostel, where I get a full, grilled perch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Flight from Medellin to the coast to Santa Marta<\/li>\n<li>Direct pick-up and transport to the hostel near the Tayrona National Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>The rucksacks are packed one more time. In Medellin a lot has been added to Niki. The <strong>worn travel clothes thrown away<\/strong>to make room for the new acquisitions. We take a taxi to the far outside<strong> Medellin International Airport<\/strong>. Having finished the usual airport procedures, our Avianca plane leaves for Santa Marta at 11.40 a.m. The <strong>probably the newest machine I have ever flown!<\/strong> We&#039;re flying to Santa Marta in an hour and a quarter. On the state-of-the-art onboard entertainment system, I watch the documentation &quot;National Geographic Photographers: The Best Job in the World&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,1982,2052,2053],"tags":[1985,2039,2054,2055,2056,2057,2058,2059,2060,2061],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-kolumbien","category-tayrona-nationalpark","category-santa-marta","tag-kolumbien","tag-medellin","tag-santa-marta","tag-tayrona","tag-avianca","tag-jose-maria-cordova-international-airport","tag-national-geographic-photographers-the-best-job-in-the-world","tag-hostal-monte-verde","tag-tayrona-nationalpark","tag-el-zaino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}