Minca is a heart opening experience. I am not the type that reads too much about the places while traveling. I love to explore while being there and feel it, I love to hear stories from people living there. When I arrived here I felt this vibe of peacefulness and nature connection. When we came back from one of our hikes we visited Andrés, who built a lovely bar of bamboo. Suerte, his 8 month old dog companion kept us entertained with her lovely wild and free spirit. Untypical for this time of the year tropical rain made us stay a little longer as you can hear on the video. He told us about the Indigenous people still living hidden in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and holding rituals for rain so the currently burning mountains of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta would be extuingished. The pico cristobal colon is 5730 metres high and is the highest peak next to the sea world wide. This is why Indigenous people see it as Corazón del mundo ♥️ - take time to study the first picture and all its` details. We found it on our hike. On the coast here in Santa Marta the Spanish landed about 400 years ago, attracted by this beautiful energy and the indians (the Spanish explorers wanted to find India) defended their land successfully (in the first place) from all the diseases and misfortune the Spanish were carrying with them.

Minca is a magical place. But already you can feel tourism overtaking and I am curious how this fast development will affect this place. I hope all the indigenous rituals, yoga, breathwork, meditation and energy work that is done here will keep the energy and magic of this place up for a long time and ‚regulate‘ tourism in a positive way.

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