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By Shannon Sims
In San Andrés, a small Colombian island located in an archipelago off Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, counting the blues of the famous “sea of seven colors” is on the bucket list of each and every visitor. It’s a midday activity that takes place along the way as you cruise among the cays that dot the east coast of San Andres: (mostly) uninhabited low-lying areas that are little more than corals topped with palm trees and surrounded by sandbars.
From my perch, I counted six: a deep sapphire, a dark blue, a teal, a turquoise and cerulean stripes, and, in the distance, a band of glowing cyan on the edge of a small palm-fringed island.
“Do you see seven?” The ship’s captain asked.
When I told him my account, he laughed. ” Six?” he said. “This means you can still do a little more. “
San Andres is on the radar of many American travelers, yet in Latin America, and especially among Colombians, it’s a sought-after destination for a honeymoon or a long weekend retreat: a position in the middle of the ocean to disconnect from everything that weighs you down. on the continent.
The archipelago of San Andres and Providencia lies more than 400 miles north of the Colombian mainland and more than a hundred miles east of Nicaragua, but thanks to a historic ridge that is still flattening, it is part of Colombia.
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