Day 10-11 Pacific Coast

On the Colombian Pacific Coast, where asphalted roads are almost non-existant, rivers are the most common way to get around. There you don´t only find wooden canoes, but also anything that can float.

We woke up early this morning to go 3 hours up the river to get to an indian community. Although we had a canoe with a motor, the way is quite hard because of all the trees and branches in the river. The Indians are very quiet and shy and do not allow any photo taking in their community.

As African slaves were freed a couple of centuries ago, they moved to this region and the Indian communities were forced to move up the river. Today, the communities are hardly mixed, and there are only a few Indian houses in the whole village, but Black and Indian live together without tensions, although one could not say that they love each other. Their charaters are very different in the way they do business and interact with each other.

Here, our last evening at the hotel, and finally in the town of Bahía Solano before taking of for Medellín.

Dave