A few weeks ago I was on the northern coast of Colombia. I visited Monteria, MoƱitos and Isla Fuerte. I will be on the road a lot over these next few days so I will take this opportunity to publish photos from this trip.
Here are some photos from a tiny, tiny town called Paso Nuevo. There were no boats to Isla Fuerte on the day I wanted to visit so I had to travel to this Paso Nuevo to find one instead. It is clearly the poorest town I have visited in Colombia. Many of the roads - which are all made of dirt - have huge piles of soil piled up in the middle of them in unfinished "road" works.
[Below] I don't remember seeing many cars there. Donkeys and motorbikes are the way to get around... and walking of course. It would only take a few minutes to cross the entire village on foot.
Here are some photos from a tiny, tiny town called Paso Nuevo. There were no boats to Isla Fuerte on the day I wanted to visit so I had to travel to this Paso Nuevo to find one instead. It is clearly the poorest town I have visited in Colombia. Many of the roads - which are all made of dirt - have huge piles of soil piled up in the middle of them in unfinished "road" works.
[Below] I don't remember seeing many cars there. Donkeys and motorbikes are the way to get around... and walking of course. It would only take a few minutes to cross the entire village on foot.
[Below] This "pool hall" was the fanciest thing in the village.
[Below] I chatted to quite a number of people in the village, including a couple of young guys who were lucky to have jobs. However they told me that the majority of people in Paso Nuevo are jobless and consequently have nothing to do. As a result, many of the people just sit around and watch the days pass; with doing nothing. These men were playing dominoes all day. They were playing dominoes when I arrived in town around 8am and they were still playing dominoes when I passed through on my return at around 5pm.
Paso Nuevo was a lovely town and I was really happy to be led through there on my voyage to Isla Fuerte. It is really small and extremely poor, but the people are very friendly, open and easy to talk to. And the only consequence of my visit was a night of diarrhea after eating a soggy, mystery-stick of cheese pastry.
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