March 27: Back to Taganga

__At 4.30 am we were just awake when somebody in the darkness knocked at our door: "Are you ready?" "Mmhh.. but weren't we supposed to meet at 5am?" "It's ok, we'll wait for you" ...Therefore we started to pack all in a hurry, brushed our teeth while running around, and after 15min another jeep arrived: it was our real driver, who started arguing with the other that apparently saw our head lights on and tried to steal us from him... sneaky! Anyway we went with our guy and his comfy seats in the front, $7, 1.5hr drive through the desert back to Uribia, with coffee break in the middle of the cactus street, yes just like that. From there we took a $3 taxi to Manaure, a town with salinas, salt factories, 30 min away. It was supposed to be very impressive, with mountains of white salt, but they were only few meters high and with people working on it... disappointment... So we jumped on another taxi, $7, and went back to Rioacha, where we had breakfast and I had the chance to buy 2 beautiful mochillas - the Indian colorful bags - along the beach. A lot of 'a la orden' and a lot of bargaining. After an hour I was exhausted but satisfied of my shopping. Then bus terminal and a direct bus with AC and cheesy movies to Santa Martha. $8. They said it was going to take 2hrs but it took 4.5 hrs, maybe because every 45 min we had a police stop and a smelly food sellers invasion of our vehicle.
We arrived in Taganga before sunset anyway; our trusted Pibe was very happy to see us, our packs were still under the sink and everybody was happy!