Sierra NEvada de Santa Marta

view from the road - note the unusual bird nests on the right

view from the breakfast table

view of Santa Marta from the deck

The road up into the mountains was sometimes concrete, but more often it was rutted and bumpy.  It is only one lane, so if two cars going in the opposite direction meet, either one has to back up until they can make some room, or they just squeeze by each other while the passengers try not to think of the steep drop-off on the right.  There is a lot of coffee growing up in the mountains and it has to get downhill to be sold somehow.  On our way back down to Santa Marta we encountered at least six of these trucks slowly making their way downhill.