CAUTIOUS CARGO ↑ This way up ↑: Colombia: Capurgana, June 2014.

......From Turbo we boarded a motored fishing boat and bounced and flew across the water to Capurgana, roadless but served by boat and light aircraft. We met French Raffa on the pier who told us about his new guesthouse venture in a traditional home, where we stayed for a week.

Happy and simple days in Capurgana; cards on the beach, a walk through farms and streams, a walk to a secluded bay for snorkelling, a walk to the saltwater and freshwater pools, many trips to local bakery, occasional football match, avocado sandwiches. I also ate a giant ant when I was there (started off pleasant and nutty then turned foul). Spent some nights in my tent (by now incredibly airless and hot), as the money we'd brought ran out towards the end, there being no cashpoints and still needing to make our way over the Panamanian border by boat.