A Muddy Good Time

Perhaps one of the weirdest and most wonderful things I have ever done was to visit Volcan de Lodo el Totumo, about an hour and a half outside of Cartagena…

The legend is told that this 15m volcano once belched fire, but a priest eyeing this as the work of the devil sprinkled it with holy water.  He extinguished the flames of lava and in turn the insides became mud and drowned the devil.  A relinquished devils’ mud bath with therapeutic mineral properties…what could be better? 

Well it was certainly a unique experience…our buoyancy was unreal; we had to be propelled forward by others, feet first on our backs, to move in the thick cream consistency of the mud.  Men were in the mud bath to massage our bodies and hair, and after we were done women waited in the lagoon to whisk our bikini’s off and wash our bodies!