Taganga is a beautiful horseshoe-shaped bay and ancestral fishing village just north of Santa Marta.

Surrounded by mountains, natural views, beaches, deserts, marine fauna as well as deep and tranquil water that constitutes one of the most important scuba diving locations on the Colombian Caribbean Sea with about 5.000 inhabitants and a conservative culture which has impeded its overdevelopment.

 

Taganga is a great place to study Spanish. It's a very authentic and relaxing village, with beautiful beaches nearby, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.

 

It's located 10 minutes by minibus from Santa Marta down town. Taganga welcomes many tourists every year, but still remains unspoiled. A must see for every traveler in Colombia!

 

 

Santa Marta, a coastal city on the Colombia Caribbean Sea, lays claim to being the oldest surviving colonial town in Colombia. It was Rodrigo de Bastidas who planted a Spanish flag here in 1525, deliberately choosing a site at the foot of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to serve as a convenient base for the reputedly incalculable gold treasures of the Tayronas.

 

Santa Marta is a reasonable small city with a population of approximately 510.000 inhabitants.

Santa Marta is a poor, but interesting and friendly city. Santa Marta has 4 museums and some very nice restaurants.

 

The native inhabitants of this region were the Indian Tayronas which populated the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta long before the Spaniards came. They lived of fishing, extraction of the marine salt and the exchange of products with other towns. The Tayronas are divided into Aruhacos, Koguis and Wiwas.

 

The 4 most popular things to do:

 

• Visit National Park Tayrona with it´s gorgeous beaches

• Learn Spanish

• The adventurous 5-6 day trek to The Lost City

• Scuba diving

 

Colombia is located at the centre of our planet, at the north-east of the South American Cone, on the equatorial line. Colombia is a very beautiful and interesting country. Colombia has a population of approximately 48 million habitants, which makes it the 4th largest country in South America with the second largest population. It shares borders with five nations: Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Panama.

 

Three mighty North-South Andean mountain ranges separate the western coastal lowlands from the almost empty eastern jungles, with 54 percent of Colombia´s land but only 3 percent of the people.

Colombia is the only South American country with coastlines on both the North Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. 23% percent of the Colombian population is living below the poverty line.

 

Most Colombians are of mixed ethnicity; about 20 percent claim European descent. Native Indians, about one percent of the population, live in the eastern jungles. It is a country with beautiful nature and many different cultures and customs. Colombia will amaze you! The only risk is wanting to stay...