Taking a bus from the airport is a little more complicated. A taxi from the airport will cost $40,000 Colombian pesos or $14 US dollars. If you arrive in a plane, you can take a bus or a taxi from the airport all the way to Taganga. The first step is to get to Santa Marta, Colombia by plane, bus or car. Bitacora, Baguettes de Maria, the Casa de Felipe Restaurant, the huts by the beach (get a sancocho de pescado there) and the Ballena Azul restaurant.
Some other places to stay that I would recommend are Ballena Azul, Hostel Nirvana, Taganga Dive Inn, and Bahia Taganga. It’s comfortable, absolutely beautiful, and a little farther from the beach and, thus, the crowds. I’ve stayed there a couple of times and had the time of my life. Where to stay: I’ll get straight to my favorite hostel – La Casa de Felipe.That’s probably because it never rains there, which is actually a problem, but at least it gives us a pink, purple, orange and yellow sunset almost every day. Taganga has the most consistently beautiful sunsets of any place I know. Some tour companies that can help guide you are: Wiwa Tour, Expotur and many others. The Lost City is remote, and so worth it.
This is one of Colombia’s most popular multi-day hikes (4-6 days), giving all who venture onto the path a sense of oneness with nature. “The Lost City” is a Pre-Columbian town that was discovered in the 1970s deep in the jungles surrounding the northward slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. If you’re in for an adrenaline rush, I recommend you tell them you want to do the downhill biking, although they have lots of other trails to ride. You can contact TayronaTrips, Elemento Outdoor Adventure or Minca Bikes and they’ll hook you up. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta has one of Colombia’s few snowy peaks, and is a wonder to bike down. This is one of the best things I’ve done close to Taganga. The trail starts right below the Bahia Taganga hotel. Find someone to take you on a boat and get to hiking! A more accessible way to hike is to go north along the coast towards Playa Grande and the Tayrona. On top of these islands you have an incredible, expansive view of the coast and the water surrounding you. These are so much fun to hike up because you feel like no one has been where you are at the moment – there are no trails or anything, and it’s probably true that few people have been there. North of Taganga, towards Tayrona, there are small islands along the coast that rise to great heights.It is one of Colombia’s most beautiful National Parks and is 150% worth a visit! The entrance to the park is only 40 minutes from Taganga. Taganga is kind of the pit stop for people headed to Tayrona Park since it’s on the park’s edge. My favorite dive spots are Punta Aguja, Salidero and and La Piedra del Medio. The further you get from the town towards Tayrona National Park, the better the diving and the clearer the water. Taganga is known for how inexpensive it is to dive, and, though the diving is not the best in the Caribbean (compared to a place like San Andres), I’ve enjoyed most dives and seen turtles, barracudas, sharks, groupers, etc. They’re all trustworthy, but I’d recommend Tayrona Dive Center and Scuba Master. For such a small town, it really has a lot of dive centers. Taganga became a Colombian tourist hot-spot because of the diving. So get ready for a whirlwind of things to do and get to planning your adventure on the Caribbean coast of Colombia – in Taganga. Also, this blog post, even though it’s called “What to do in Taganga,” includes a lot of activities that are outside of Taganga because the area is one of the most beautiful, diverse and well-known in Colombia. This blog post probably even counts as a “What to do in Santa Marta” because I’d always rather stay in the tiny Taganga than the city of Santa Marta. I’ve been to this town more times than I care to count, and I’ve enjoyed every stay.
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