Scuba Diving in Taganga

Taganga is a very small tranquil town on the Caribbean cost of Colombia, I stayed at the casa de Filipe generally a nice hostel, but infested with mosquitoes, the people of the town are very friendly, the street along the sea es lined with food carts, and restaurants, the restaurant offering great fresh sea food, which I don't mind eating everyday, at one of the kiosks you can get a huge and amazing fruit salads consisting of at least 10 different kinds of fresh fruits for 5000 pesos, I miss that fruit salad.

There are 7 diving schools in town, but not all are very reputable, I decided to do my PADI open water curse, and I chose to go with Poseidon diving school, because they can do my registration for the PADI certificate online, with no need to send any papers by mail, it is run by a couple of german guys, they are very professional, though they are the most expensive in town, 540,000 (around 200 Euros) pesos, first afternoon I just watched an educational video, the next day consisted of exercises in shallow water, which I found a lot of fun, the next two days we did the dives, two each day, during the morning, all passed with no difficulties, the dives were all in Coral reef areas, the afternoon and evening I spent studying the theory book, preparing for the final exam, I was promised two free dives if I did the exam perfectly, I needed to answer all 50 questions correctly, so I took the studying seriously, anyway I did manage to do the pre exam quiz perfectly, 40 questions, but I made two mistakes in the final exam, so I did not get my free dives, it is always difficult to get that last one or two questions right, but I did pass and got my temporary certificate, for three month, and got registered thorough he Internet at PADI, I should be receiving my PADI card in two month. Anyway I want to do my advanced course as well, so I am planning to come back to Taganga later to do it.