S a n t a M a r t a is a small coastal city with nice colonial architecture and colorful streets with a lot of small shops and bars.
In the South is a tourist district called
Rodadero. The tourists are mainly locals, who come to the beach even when it is overcast. Friday and Saturday night the beach hosts something like national party. Groups of people all over, sitting on beach chairs, drinking and dancing to music from small street bands. Sometimes standing 10 meters from each other, they play as loud as possible, so that their customers don't hear the others. It's fun to sit between four such groups.
I N V E M A R is a marine laboratory in Santa Marta, participating in a project, mapping the pollution of the Caribbean. In the 50th they founded a museum of sea animals and until now collected about 37.000 species, which are shelved in glass tubes in a few small rooms here. One section is dealing with research of sea horses.
N u o v a V e n e c i a Half a day trip by an INVEMAR boat brought us to a unique settlement in the middle of a huge bay. Founded in 1840, it is built like the Italian Venice on wooden pilots. Houses with gardens, animals, shops, and even a football playground. Electricity comes by underwater cable, which means TV and Internet have entered the houses. Having at least a small boat is essential - for communication and also for living, since most inhabitants are fishermen.
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