I headed straight up to the caribean coast, to the town of Santa Marta, to join a 5 day-hiking-trip to the ¨Lost City¨. We left on a jeep, passing several police officers on the way: one was checking our documents and joking how we plan to find the city when it is lost, another one accepted a handshake with some nicely folded-up money from our driver. That afternoon we started hiking for about 4 hours, mostly uphill through beautiful colombian landscape, we were pretty tired when we reached the hammock-camp that evening. The next day was very easy though, only 3 hours of hiking and crossing some rivers now and then, and we got spoiled with food. On the third day we finally reached the lost city/ Teyuna - which I found quite spread out and impressive. And as the hiking turned out to be quite easy, one of the chinese girls decided to make it a bit more challenging by twisting her ankle on the next day on the way back - this was supposed to be a day with 3,5 hours of hiking in the morning and 3 hours of walking in the afternoon - and while we could kind of keep up with the others of the group in the morning, as some guides carried her for a bit of the way, chasing down a hill with neckbreaking speed while I could just try to run after them to catch up with them later, the afternoon hike turned out to be a torture - me, her and our guide needed 6 hours, making it to the camp just after sunset, the guide staying behind often to rest as he was carrying 2 backpacks, leaving us to cross the small rivers by ourselves. Well, at least I got to see a lot of animals: a group of tucans that sounded like pigs  up in trees, poisonous snakes, a tarantula, a crab, moths and butterflies... and I had plenty of time to enjoy the scenery. The last day the chinese girl got a mule, which we were all chasing, so we were very fast that day. After resting for a day in Santa Marta I had a look at the fishing village of Taganga and then headed on to Tayrona National Park - where we were greeted by a crocodile and a bunch of crabs, beautiful beaches in front of palm trees and lush vegetation and some monkeys that were chasing each other next to a mango tree.