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Volcano, Spa
TravelPod Member ReviewsVolcan de Lodo El Totumo (Mud Volcano) Cartagena
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Great Fun
smitherson 25 contributions United Kingdom Apr 9, 2012
A must do! And its worth the tips (~3000COP per) to have your photo taken, get a mud massage and be cleaned!
What a laugh. Well run and organised attraction.
Take a reputable tour or your own car to keep your gear safe. Heard of someone at our hostal who's bag got stolen off a supposedly locked coach.This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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Good day trip
erika-rodrigo 0 contribution Bogota, Colombia and Montevideo, Uruguay, United States Dec 11, 2011
The mud volcano is worth the trip. If you you the mind state of a child you will love it. If you are scared of being dirty its not a place for you.
Be patient with the towns people who try to wash you or sell you things. They make nothing from having this attraction on their doorstep.This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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Giggles
randyontour 2 contributions Melbourne, Australia May 5, 2011
So much fun. Laughed my ass off. We heard that sometimes "funny stuff" happens, I assume when loads of single backpackers go here, but our bath in the river afterwards was all above board.
Very highly recommend everyone who goes near Cartagena does this!This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Volcan de Lodo El Totumo (Mud Volcano) Cartagena
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Cartagena, sus murallas, sus callecitas empedradas
Llegamos a Cartagena el último fin de semana de Enero, luego de pasar por las tierras calientes de Santander. Esta vez era la ocasión de disfrutar del mar, playitas y aire marino...era nuestra idea.
Partimos con una caminata tranquila por Cartagena, sus murallas, pasando por San Pedro Clever. El color amarillo intenso, precioso, desplegado … -
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El Volcán del Totumo
El Volcán del Totumo es un cono volcánico lleno de lodo, que se encuentra ubicado en el municipio de Santa Catalina (Bolívar), muy cerca de la frontera con el departamento del Atlántico, en la Región Caribe de Colombia. Presenta una escasa elevación (algo más de veinte metros), para llegar a su cráter es preciso ascender por una rústica escalera de …
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All C's
It was kinda strange to get off the boat not only in a new country but a new continent and simply walk straight into the street. No one checking our bags or documents...as I said previously Paul was taking the passports to get the necessary visas, but I still expect something....we caught a taxi with one of the couples; Kirsty and Paul to the old …
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Wallowing in the mud
50 km north of Cartagena is Volcan de Lodo el Totumo, a small extinct volcano with a crater of lukewarm mud.
I hear about this from my friend Eileen and thought who can resist wallowing in the mud so off i went. given that a half day tour was about the same price as getting there by multiple bus, motor taxi's and walking in 35 deg heat, i … -
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A great day for a mud bath and rumba en chiva!!
We loved el Volcan de Lodo de Totumo and the rumba en chiva (party bus) at night!!
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HOT & HUMID in Cartagena
Hello Caribbean coast! It´s stinking hot and the humidity must be 100%, WELCOME sweaty face!! Cartagena is a beautiful city. The old part of the town, Centro is very special. The buildings are colourful and colonial and the streets are clean and narrow.
We have a nervous taxi ride from the bus terminal. The taxi driver is driving way too … -
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End transit, commence holiday...
So far I've flown Melbourne > Sydney > Buenos Aires > Lima > Bogota > Medellin > Bogota > Cartagena. This was the last flight for a while, which pleased me. I guess it was fortunate, in a way, that it was this plane's landing (not an earlier flight) that my ears decided to rupture their blood vessels. What I thought was mucus …
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Back to Cartagena
We arrived back in Cartagena for a
couple of days before we flew to Brazil. Our first day back was
Easter Sunday so it was a bit of lazy day for us as there wasn't much
happening, the following day we visited the fort, Castillo de San
Felipe de Barajas, which was used to protect the city from pirates
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Searching after pirates
4.2.2012
בניגו 91; למנהג 04;ו החלטנ 93; לקחת אוטוב 93;ס תיירי 01; מטגנג 92; לקרט&# … -
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Mud Mud Glorious Mud...
We arrived in Cartagena to beautiful hot weather and lovely views. However our hostel had made an error and so we were taken one street over to the owner's sister’s hostel. On seeing the room (which was nice enough) James declared the bed too small for two people (it was pretty much a single bed) so we walked up the street and found another …
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Related BlogsVolcan de Lodo El Totumo (Mud Volcano) Cartagena
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Enjoying a mud bath....in the crater of a volcano
... was muddy) – yes today we would be taking a relaxing natural mud bath in the crater of a volcano. Volcan de Lodo El Totumo is a 15m high mud volcano, the highest in Colombia, and its mud is said to have unmatched therapeutic qualities ...
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Countdown to Christmas in Colombia
... by bus - improvising cooking arrangements as the whole village had lost power during the night. Our next stop was 'Volcan de Lodo el Totumo'. Believe it or not, people actually pay good money to jostle around in a disgusting crater of warm mud in a ...
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Fortified Cities and the Totumo Mud Volcano
... weirdest, most random (but fun) things I have ever done in my life. History - El Totumo Mud Volcano (Spanish: Volcán de Lodo El Totumo) is a mud volcano popular for its alleged healing mud-bath. The mound itself raises at about 15 m (49 ft) and ...
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The beautiful city of Cartagena
... 't exactly happening! But hey, we enjoyed memory lane for the night before the following morning taking a tour to a volcano, Volcan de Lodo El Totumo, 50 km out of Cartagena. It is famous for tourists to go and have a mud bath there as the volcano (a 15m ...
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Cartagena
... and the bus were laughing at us and telling us to go back the way we came. Oops. Next day, we took a tour to Volcan de Lodo El Totumo - a small active volcano that spews mud instead of lava - hence, people are allowed to now "swim" in it. It was awesome ...
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Beautiful Cartagena, Colombia
... drove by the old walled city. We were then whisked about 50 miles east along the coast to the Volcán de Lodo El Totumo (Totumo Mud Volcano). The contrasts were surprising along the way. We passed people riding donkeys and two wheeled ...
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Back to old Cartagena and Volcan de Lodo El Totumo
... ones with Ken, the ex Colombian jail bird. Caroline and I decided that we would spend our last day in Cartagena doing a tour to Volcan de Lodo El Totumo, the mud spewing volcano. With that all booked up through the hostel (35,000 pesos) we decided to ...
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Cartagena
... morning, but looked outside and it was raining!!! First time since the amazon! We went on an organised tour to the Volcan de Lodo El Totumo. This was about 50km northeast of Cartegena, it was a 15m mound which was a minature volcano that spews out mud, ...
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Happy as a Pig in S@#%!
50km northeast of Cartagena there is a small, 15m high active volcano-Volcan de Lodo El Totumo, that I went to visit this afternoon. Instead of lava and hot ash, it spews out mud! Local legend says that the volcano once indeed produced hot ...
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Cartagena
... then back to the hostel for dinner and then bed. DAY 3 - We were up early to get our bus to the mud volcano (Volcan de Lodo el Totumo) about 2 hours out of Cartagena. We were told to be ready by 8 am for the bus, but by 9 am we were still waiting. ...
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