´´Playin´in the dut´´: a mini-post from Cartagena

When I was a kid, my friend Kenny loved ´´playin in the dut´´. No matter where we´d be (backyard in the turtle sand box, campsite at MacGregor Point, just about anywhere else with a lack of pavement) you could turn around and sure enough Kenny would be playin´ in the dut.

Today, Torrance and I also did our fair share of playing around in the dirt, or to be more specific, in the mud. 

Covered in mud!

Volcan Totumo, where we are pictured above, is a small volcano just north of the glorious colonial town of Cartagena. It is one of the few active volcanoes whose craters you can climb right into, and, in this case, go for a dip. Luckily for us its not spewing lava!

So you are probably wondering how we ended up in the condition we´re in in the photo above. Let me explain...

The volcanic crater is actually only 15m high. Its been reinforced with stone walls and its a steep stair climb to the top where you end up with this:

Do we really want to get in there???

After handing over our camera to an employee there, we climb in and quickly realize that we are completely bouyant...and stuck...lying face down... in warm, chocolate pudding mud. Even though they are each holding about 17 camera´s, the photographers somehow manage to keep track of everyone and luckily we end up with pictures of us and not one of the other 30 people (men, women and children - in various degrees of swimwear - this is Latin america afterall) floating around in the mud bath with us!

The other people are still in the picture (which is fitting, given how intertwined everyone´s limbs were), but in the background.

We had to ask ourselves...wouldn´t this be totally inappropriate if this were a jacuzzi tub?

The answer was clearly, ´´Yes!´´

....some people did not love the mud bath (e.g. lady in the bottom left of this shot)....

And we skipped the massage...

This picture looks a lot more inappropriate than it actually is. But still, we skipped the massage.

It was probably the most hilarious thing that I have ever done. Period.

Mud = fun.

 

 

  (ps. Tor wants to know if that is that a muddy makeout behind us!?! I bet Kenny didn`t know that playing in the dirt could be this fun!)