Tina T's

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Colombia's Coast -Tayrona

Tayrona National Park, Colombia

Laurel my college roomate joined me on the coast for 2 weeks before the school year started. We ended up making great friends to share with for the week.

There is nobody else on the beach, why not!

I have seen a lot of beaches in Thailand, Indonesia, Costa Rica and more, but this is way up on the list of best beaches I have seen. They are reserved, no buildings and no people!

How will I ever want to go to another beach, clearly Colombia has the best!

My hotel room was very nice and cheap too since I brought my own hammock! We could have stayed at the "hotel" below but it was 2 dollars more expensive than our 4 dollar nights!

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Colombia's Coast

Cartagena was an amazing city!

We took a day trip to a mud volcano. It was probably one of the wildest feelings of boyuncy I'll ever experience!

It was fabulous to have Laurel my college roomate down to visit me for two weeks before the school year started!

Friday, March 28, 2008

Bogota, Colombia

One of the oldest churches in Bogota.

My roomate Lisa K. and friend Stetson

Amazon Spring Break

Our guide caught this! I had to yell at him to stop when he was trying to get a bigger one!

I had no idea my bait kept disappearing because I was fishing for paranhas

I loved our cabaña! It took a few night though before I was able to sleep comfortably. The first night I woke my friend up screaming there was a snake above my bed. Of coarse it was my over active brain!

Sure enough, we got to see an anaconda... good thing it was not alive. I might have had more nightmares!

I spent one week in the Amazon Rain forest, of Brazil for Semana Santa, Spring Break. It was an amazing trip to see so many animals and see the forest. I saw pink dolphines, huge tarantulas and caymans . Our guide was awesome and caught the piranhas, tarantula and caymans for us out in the wild! I was even attacked by a massive lizard one night! The jungle seriously sounds like those CD's they sell of jungle noises, it was difficult to fall asleep. We stayed in this cute little cabin that had screens for all of the walls. The bathroom only had three walls, the back wall was completely open to the jungle, luckily I went during rainy season so the mosquitoes were not too bad. I was so glad I took this trip and I definitely recommend it!

Monday, January 7, 2008

It's all part of Christmas in Costa Rica

It's a good time

This rope swing is a lot bigger than my Grandma's

Of coarse I have to be different

I suppose it was a ways to the bottem!

Costa Rican Christmas

Christmas morning was an early hike and a swim.

This is where we slept Christmas night. Two in a hammock wasn't the most comfortable but it was beautiful!

It wasn't quite like coming home for the holidays!

This is the second volcano I saw. The first one we saw in Costa Rica was spewing out lava!! I could see the lava run down the side, but the top was cloudy.