Cartagena, Colombia Travel Blogs

You pick up the soap honey!!!
Nov 1, 2005 (9 photos)

... I hate drugs I tell them, and I don't have my passport on because I am afraid to get robbed. And of course I love Colombia, there's no thieves here. But you still need police of course, they are very important, claro, and the police are very friendly. Yes ...

Mud mud glorious MUD!!!!!!
Jun 1, 2005 (22 photos)

... in sweltering heat and stink. Suprisingly we took the easy and quicker option and booked a flight from Panama City to Cartagena in the north of Colombia. It was the shortest flight, no sooner had we finished climbing it was time to land, perfect! We ...

Rum overload
Oct 15, 2005 (23 photos)

... more as recently as 2003. And you thought the England team got a raw deal when they got home after messing up a game! Cartagena: A tropical flavoured Cusco? Anyway, we caught the bus from Santa Marta four hours along the coast to the walled city of ...

Hey Locombia, where's all the Gringos?
Jan 15, 2005 (36 photos)

... the list that is. Warrants a visit if you ask me. Before I left Seattle I had already decided to go to Colombia, at least Cartagena on the Carribean coast, the colonial city legendary for it's history and beauty. I've read so much positive things about ...

Revisiting The Old Walled City
Mar 26, 2009 (31 photos)

I finally left the beach bum life behind in Taganga only to go to yet another beach.  I came back to Cartagena to take better photos than the ones I made four years ago and also go to Playa Blanca; said to be Colombia's most beautiful beach.  ...

Cartagena
Aug 30, 2006 (17 photos)

... that maybe the Colombians feel that they have enough drugs already and can do without any more being brought from outside. Cartagena We make our way from the airport to Cartagena, a lovely colonial city on the Caribbean coast. Our shelter here is ...

Wallowing in mud - our last days
Mar 10, 2006 (5 photos)

... We'd have to come to terms with it over the next four days, there'd be some grieving to do... Cartagena, situated on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, is a historic port town founded in 1533 by the Spanish conquistadores, for whom it was the gateway to ...

Cartagena.
Sep 13, 2008 (17 photos)

Back in Colombia.

Caribbean Columbia!
Jun 24, 2006 (17 photos)

... the wind gets up and the heavens open. Fortunately the crossing is still flat and it is quite nice watching the lightning over Cartagena. Wander around the old town at night where its a lot busier than the afternoon and lots of shops open. See a ...

I knew it. I couldn't stay away!
May 28, 2007 (16 photos)

I am finally back in Colombia. This time only for a 3 weeks visit. Starting in Cartagena de Indias. I couldn't stay away for more than 18 months from this beautiful country on this beautiful continent. I really had other plans this year. Maybe tasting a ...

¡Guerrillas + Paramilitaries + Drug Cartels Oh My!
Dec 20, 2005 (3 photos)

Cartagena, Colombia - Looking at a road map of the Americas you might notice the Pan-American Highway, which effectively runs almost uninterrupted from Circle, Alaska (100 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle) to Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city ...

SOUTH AMERICA !!!!
Dec 20, 2004 (16 photos)

... ´ motor and go! Everyone smells ... really bad! Monday, Dec 20 -- just after midnight, we arrived at the Yacht Club in Cartagena, Colombia. We will be off this damn boat first thing in the morning. The first few hours ashore brought on a sort of land ...

Cartagena's Charms and Challenges
Dec 15, 2006 (12 photos)

... , and a good night's sleep in a small family-run hotel, the next morning painted quite a different picture. Yes, Cartagena is Colombia's largest port and by association is an important but dirty industrial centre. However, it is easy to forget the rather ...

All good things come to those who wait!!
Jul 19, 2007 (4 photos)

... / 6 days! And to pee on a toilet was a pleasure, next up was a cold coke - divine !! We are staying here in Cartagena for a few days checking out the Old Town and maybe visiting a mud volcano which is nearby - we shall write again when we have some news ...

A colourful, colonial city
Jul 21, 2007 (12 photos)

... in the old town scatter for what seems like forever - it does feel like two totally different worlds. Our first night in Cartagena was as you know spent on the boat, floating on the waters of the marina that night and looking across the waters ...

Feliz Cumpleanos Dave and a long story!
Jun 25, 2006

Next morning have a lie in and give Dave his little pressies. FEw of us then sit in reception to watch the England v Ecuador match. Must admit am glad we are not in Ecuador anymore as would feel bit scared! Flukely manage to win although painful match ...

Old Town Cartagena
Dec 29, 2004 (13 photos)

... itself to be a quite fun and pleasant city ... actually one of the safer places I`ve walked around, believe it or not. Cartagena`s Old Town is one of the most amazing colonial towns I`ve been to .. by far much better than Antigua Guatemala and Granada ...

Back in the land of
Apr 2, 2004 (10 photos)

... I couldn't buy another necklace. And truly wanted to be left alone for my remaining time there. And then I landed back in Cartagena, which I have described above. I haven't heard so many 'Hey you's since I was in Africa. But that's a tourist town for ...

Countdown to Christmas in Colombia
Dec 23, 2006 (12 photos)

... our final few days in Colombia leading up to Christmas at a very pleasant family-run hotel in the Getsemaní barrio of Cartagena. Martha and Alberto, and their daughter Daniela, at the Hotel Villa Colonial have looked after us very well, and we would ...

Miss Colombia? Where?
Nov 9, 2006 (11 photos)

Someone mentioned to me that Cartagena stages Colombia's biggest party of the year. He had been travelling around the world off and on for around 10 years, yet after surviving numerous German Oktoberfests, Brazilian Carnivals and even a couple of Australia ...

La Costa Caribe
Sep 15, 2006 (6 photos)

After a good weekend in taganga celebrating my birthday I caught a bus 4hrs along the Caribbean coast to Cartagena. The old city of Cartagena is really well preserved with lots of churches, beautiful old buildings and cobbled streets. I stayed in a cheaper ...

Land Ahoy!
Jul 31, 2007 (21 photos)

Pulling into the harbor of Cartagena Colombia was a bit of a shock to us all.  The city looked big, modern and clean.   I don't know what I was expecting but the other backpackers were similarly amazed.   It felt so good to to get ...

Waiting patiently
May 3, 2009

... trying to make my way north to Panama and I am hoping to go by sail boat.  Yes, SAILING through the Caribbean from Cartagena, through the San Blas islands... how cool is that???  I am spending my days trying to stay cool in this steamy hot ...

Cololmbia
Jan 31, 2008

will see

Cartagena: of balconies, sweets and doorknobs
Apr 13, 2006 (46 photos)

... old times and keep it for good, when tourists arrive in masses and Hay festivals choose it as their seat... It cannot be doubted: Cartagena is as intriguing as ever, as beautiful as it hadn't been in ages, and as lively as never before.    ...

Making the most of our last days in SA
Mar 4, 2009 (40 photos)

... glowing, bioluminescent plankton.  Truly awesome.   Our final destination in Colombia - in South America in fact - was Cartagena.  It´s a beautiful city with areas reminiscent of Havana, Cuba ...

Adios Taganga, Buenos Cartagena
Jul 20, 2007 (17 photos)

... the traveller a little weary and car sick as Cam found out.  Fortunately, after 4 bumpy hours we arrived in Cartagena. Pigeon Spanish enabled us to find the hostel (Casa Vienna) which  leaves a lot to be desired and is ...

Crossing the border
Jan 9, 2006 (3 photos)

... Colombia via the San Antonio - Cucuta route. From Cucuta another night bus had to be taken to Cartagena de Indias which is on the North coast of Colombia.......... altogether the journey took 36 long, long hours. The temperature on the bus was again about ...

mud baths and carriage rides!
Oct 17, 2006 (38 photos)

... dirt floor and where the toilet was outside in the yard with the pigs and the puppies.  We bussed our way back to Cartagena the next day and I spent my last few days meeting up with various interesting people with regards to my project - a music ...

Cartagena- Picking up the Van
Oct 6, 2009 (45 photos)

... hot, even at 11PM (35-40 degrees Celsius).  We jumped in a cab and head straight for the old town. Cartagena's old town is spectacular with beautiful Spanish Colonial architecture and the area is surrounded by a wall that took nearly two centuries to ...