A Day In My Life Living In COLOMBIA 🇨🇴

Harry has moved east to Santa Marta, and this is the bundle’s clearest record of the job rather than the travel. Facing several days in the jungle with no power and no internet, he spends the day in a co-working space getting four videos edited and scheduled so they publish without him — then takes a taxi out to a hostel at the edge of Tayrona National Park to start walking at dawn.

He frames it deliberately as the unglamorous version: he says on camera that he isn’t going to pretend every day is a five-star hotel, and that some days are just travelling and working.

Two things make it more than a filler episode. He gives Santa Marta the only plainly negative verdict in the cluster. And the evening at the hostel changes how he books for the rest of the country — not for the room, but because the people there had just walked the park he was about to walk.

Key moments

• [00:00] In Santa Marta, with several days of jungle ahead and no wi-fi expected.
• [00:32] A hard drive knocked off the bed onto the floor and broken, taking a lot of footage with it. The second in a few months, and he says both were his own fault.
• [01:05] Hostel breakfast — arepa, omelette, vegetables and fruit salad. He rates the omelette below Pakistan’s.
• [03:06] The night before: a man walked alongside him at 10 p.m. asking for money.
• [03:36] First verdict on Santa Marta — not as nice as he expected, and not very interesting.
• [04:07] A co-working space inside a hostel; a day pass is about £4–5 with tea, coffee, water and wi-fi.
• [05:08] Speed test: roughly 12 down, 12 up. Not great, better than the hostel, and probably the best available locally.
• [06:12] A barber shop, walked into cold.
• [07:17] Asks for a fade and no length off the top, and warns against going too high; it goes high anyway, lost in translation.
• [07:48] The bill: 25,000 pesos, about £5–6, for a cut and a shave.
• [07:17] The barber is Venezuelan.
• [08:19] The barber watching a Colombian drama series more closely than the haircut.
• [10:56] Buys a sun hat for the days ahead.
• [11:57] Withdrawing 300,000 pesos, and his preference for BBVA machines — reliable, good exchange rate — plus a warning about the size of the denominations.
• [12:28] Lunch: fish with potatoes and vegetables for $7.
• [13:33] Still no accommodation booked for the night, which he admits is becoming a pattern.
• [14:06] What he books with in Colombia: Hostelworld, hotels.com and Airbnb.
• [15:07] Choosing a private room over a dorm to keep his gear safe — about £45, roughly $60.
• [16:08] Four vlogs scheduled, buying four days off-grid.
• [17:10] The closing verdict on Santa Marta: disappointing, though he twice allows it may be him rather than the city.
• [17:40] A 45–50 minute taxi to the park; 120,000 pesos, about $30, and he says plainly that a bus would have been much cheaper and he paid for flexibility.
• [18:41] At the hostel: the two park entrances, the roughly three-hour route from the other one, Cabo San Juan, the beaches you can sleep on, and a warning to use the mosquito net.
• [20:14] The room — bamboo, a net, a fan, a marble bath, hammocks outside, and nothing to hear but the jungle.
• [23:15] The evening downstairs with travellers coming out of and going into the park, trading routes and campsites.
• [24:16] The conclusion he draws: hostels for the information and the company, private rooms for the gear.
• [25:47] On doing this for a living, and on showing the ordinary version of it.

Extracted pages

• Colombia
• Santa Marta
• Tayrona National Park
• Book for the wi-fi when you work on the road