Isla de Providencia

Isla de Providencia is a small and remote Colombian island approximately 200 km off Nicaragua's coast with a surface of only 17 square kilometres. You can only reach it by boat or small airplanes. Most likely the most relaxed people on this planet and the safest spot at the same time. But what it is really great for is diving, and that is what we came for. Our friends Carina and Tobias got engaged here underwater in 2019 and recommended diving school Anda Di Wata to us, led by Sandra and Halbert. Those two taught us diving and showed us the incredible underwater world round Providencia. They took us to dive in beautiful coral reefs, canyons and above a shipwreck, surrounded by rays, blowfishes, crayfishes, curious reef sharks and shoals of colourful fishes. Among the best of all, we had the pleasure to meet and know amazing people again: Alessio and Juanita from Bogotá (later more in 2nd post about Bogotá), Dario and Kevin from Switzerland (funny as hell with a beautiful kind of humour challenging your abdominal muscles, hope to see you guys again soon!) and many more. Bernardo aka 'Big Boy', a trekking guide, brought us to Providencia's peak and shared his tremendous knowledge about plants with medical use and the island's wildlife with us. At night we usually went to the beach, ate tasty fresh fish, dipped our feet into the sand and had a cold Andina Light beer. A beautiful nature phenomenon we could witness many nights was the nocturnal migration of Black Crabs to the beach. Even police and military were commissioned to close street and protects the hundreds of Crabs on the way to the beach and back. The only pain was the flight back: there are only one to three flights per day. On this day there should have been three, but ours was cancelled and the airline missed to inform us ... and the airport was closed. Suddenly the relaxed mindset we enjoyed for two weeks became a struggle. After long discussions we were rebooked with special pick-up service in San Andres, where we had a 10 minute window to get off our plane and into the next one. Sweaty, but we made it.