Month: July 2019

Colombia III – Ciudad Perdida Trek

On By arcoleoIn Colombia, Jungle, Outdoors, Spring, TripLeave a comment

After the scuba diving I signed up to do the Ciudad Perdida (Lost City) trek.  It was advertised as being 50km long and four days.  What a lie.  It turned out to be 73km with three days of actual hiking.  Being out of shape, it was brutal for me.  I did however get in much better shape than I thought I could in three days.

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One thing that came out of it was realizing I could push myself into much better shape than I thought.  When I got home I started running.  I’m currently only able to run three miles in just over half an hour, but that’s more than I’ve been able to run without stopping in over twenty years.

Colombia – Part II – Scuba Diving

On By arcoleoIn Colombia, Outdoors, Summer, Trip, WaterLeave a comment

The second part of my trip was spent Scuba diving.  I spent four days in Taganga with Poseidon Dive Center.  It was fantastic.

I did the following

  • Deep diving to almost 40 meters
  • Drift diving where you just drift with a current
  • Night diving where I saw crabs fighting, giant colorful lobster, and fish sleeping in the water
  • Regular diving where I saw fish of every color and tons of clams, moray eels, etc

The water was about 75 degrees which was perfect for me for skin diving.  Every day I dove Nitrox so I never felt tired afterwards.

I also got my Advanced Open Water PADI certification, so that was nice.