Hostage in Capuranga

OK so I'm exaggerating a little bit with being held hostage of course. It wasn’t that bad, but being held against my will and not being allowed to leave fits the description of being hostage in some way. We were a bit unlucky that while in Capuranga the local community held a strike in protest of lack of the electricity or at least that’s what we have been told. Unfortunately the only way they thought they could be noticed was by shutting down all the businesses like restaurants, bars etc…and preventing anyone from leaving or coming by boat or plane as this is the only means of transportation to get there. In the middle of all that there were us and few other tourists being stuck there with almost no way out and not being able to get any food, water and use internet. We did manage to find some food but we were practically hungry the whole time, there were plenty of fruits on the trees but we just couldn’t stop talking about the food and what we wish we could eat.

Many furious Colombian holiday makers who stuck there got really angry and had a talk with military to get them out of there. Some people had missed their flights, work, school and so on, we didn’t really suffer that much as we planned to stay there around 4 days anyway but the food situation made us want to leave sooner. There was a lot of talk that the military will take the tourists out of there but we got sick of it and started to think about other options. On the day when we went to Panama we were passing through another village that was one hour walk through the jungle from Capuranga, called Sapzurro. It was there when the idea of sailing to Cartagena was born and of course it was one of my crazy, spontaneous ideas :)
The problem was that to get to Sapzurro we had to walk through the humid jungle for 1-2hrs with our big backpacks because the 5 min boat ride wasn’t available because of the strike.Plus the night before heading to Sapzurro there was a big storm with thunder and heavy rain what meant that the track to Sapzurro will be very muddy. However we still decided to do that. And so we started our extremely sweaty hike that for the first time ever made me want to give up half way there.

Here is few sweaty pics to show how hard it was, almost like a Bikram yoga but in the jungle.