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Cartagena Slideshow
Cartagena
Travel Blogs from Cartagena, Colombia
Colombia - "The only risk is wanting to stay"
... being there: * Colombia is attracting more than 1.2 million tourists per year with the number of cruise passengers docking at Cartagena having almost doubled from 109,000 in 2007 to 206,000 in 2008 and 156,000 by the middle of 2009. The ...
Hibiscos em todos os tons
... e curtir a brisa. Originalmente, eram nove quilômetros de muros, fortalezas e bastiões, envolvendo completamente a cidade colonial. Cartagena ocupa uma posição estratégica no Caribe e era um importante porto de embarque do ouro das colônias ...
Coisas imperdíveis em Cartagena
... Cabañas, na entrada da Baía de Havana. O forte é da primeira metade do Século XVI e domina toda a cidade e a Baía de Cartagena. O mais interessante, porém, não é o que se vê do alto, mas o que está nos subterrâneos: são túneis e mais túneis ...
Cartagena de Indias
... , a fort with walkways and catacombs making it very impressive, located on top of the hill dominating the entrance to the Cartagena Bay, you almost feel that Francis Drake is going to appear again any second. The hostel Casa Viena , one of the most ...
Flying to Cartagena!
... tasty. We left the house heading to the airport and faired a sad emotional fairwell to our surrogate parents and caught our flight to Cartagena. The weather was beautiful...at our hotel (when I hotel, please take this with a pinch of salt) is/was as ...
Caribbean Queen
... Oasis song. Although it´s more likely due to the tales of corruption, drugs, Pablo Escobar and beautiful landscapes. It´s true that Colombia has a bad reputation, it´s the place my mum and dad have been most worried about me visiting. But, ever since ...
Meeting a beautiful city
Well off to Cartagena. This time the Rotary Club hired a van for us. Same driver as the day before. Only this time the road was much bumpier. 2 hours later we arrived at a club and met the next host group of Rotarians: Nabo, Rapha, Maudi, and German ...
Ahoy me hearties! Shiver me timbers! Good as rum!
... , where the treasures plundered from South American indigenous people were waiting to be shipped back to Spain. Miraculously Cartagena survived Pizarro, Drake, Vernon, Barbosa and the like and, nowadays, is an acclaimed jewel of colonial architecture and ...
"want die piraterij bevalt me"
... te doen. Heel de middag door het historische hart gelopen. Mooie stad met een bijzondere geschiedenis. Meerdere keren is Cartagena belegerd geweest door (Engelse) piraten en vrijbuiters. De Spanjaarden gebruikte deze haven om allerlei rijkdommen van Zuid ...
I like pina coladas
... ever was one. But thought we heard a few shouts of hey gringo as we made our way through the crowds but I am sure it was affectionate. We walked the hit mile back to the relative safety of the Cartagena walls unscathed but thirsty. Definitely beer ...
The beautiful city of balconies: Cartagena
... booked in Bogota though, so fingers crossed I will get myself sorted in time for Spain. We loved the police in Cartagena. Again, they were absolutely everywhere including being stationed at most street corners. But here they would even help you cross the ...
South America - first stop, Cartagena
... to a town called San Gil which sounded like it had a lot to offer. After our hostel mishap arriving to Cartagena, we emailed the hostel we wanted in San Gil and made a reservation. We paid 75,000COP (Colombian Pesos) about 25GBP for the ...
Chillin on the coast
... . They play it alot here in the clubs. Rigth now I{m in Santa Marta which is on the Carribean coast of Colombia . The beaches and local scene here is amazing. Bu first things first. I arrived in Cartegena a few days ...
Fun in the Sun at Cartagena
... that the author of Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez born in Colombia, lived for some time and attended University in Cartagena. Additionally, scenes from the movie "Love in the Time of Cholera" were filmed in the city. ...
Christmas Eve in Colombia
The breakfast in the hotel is lovely. We decide to go back out to the bus terminal to buy our onward ticket to Medellin in a nicer bus as it is a 10 -12hr trip and this is holiday silly season. I think Im going to cook on the local bus there and back. ...
Cartagena
... season. In Bello near Medellin a lot of people were killed in a mudslide the previous week. As we approached Cartagena on the overnight bus, there was a small village where boats were being rowed down the streets. Although the media ...
Dry Land!!
... kip we checked out and found a nicer room with Air-con and a TV for less than the dorms right next door! whoop! : ) Cartagena is beautiful, its a bit like Panama City where you have the gorgeous old town filled with history and churches and then the new ...
The hottest place on earth
... poor. The average income is $300/month but more than 70% of the citizens own a home which is pretty impressive. The population of Cartagena is just over 1 Million. The city is separated into the old city and the new city. Our first stop was the Fort of ...
Colombia, A great start
... , Peru, a one hour stopover, a flight to Bogota, Colombia, a six hour over night stop over, then a 6.50am flight to Cartagena, Colombia. So, I´m pretty buggered but also excited. On one of the flights, buggered if I can remember which one ...
Cartagena, Colombie, ancien port espagnol fortifié
Nous voilà en Colombie à Cartagène, sur la côte Caraïbes, après un cours vol d'une heure et demi depuis Panama City. En effet il n'y a pas de route entre ces deux pays, les seules solutions existantes sont: le bateau avec les narco trafiquants et ...
Captivating, Colombian & Caribbean!
... area and indeed about how us English (Mainly led by Sir Fancis Drake to be fair) repeatedly attacked the old city of Cartagena… hence the defense walls around the city and the many canons that still guarded he shorelines, vividly painting a picture ...
PC to Cartagena
... hotel Capilla del Mar Global Hotel (Mon Feb-1-2010 for 2 nights) Cra 1 No. 8-12 Avenida del Malecon Bocagrande, Carrera 1st. No. 8-12 Cartagena 3939, Colombia Tel: 57 (5) 665 16 66 or Tel: 57 (5) 650 1500 Fax: 57 (5) 665 51 45 ...
Cartagena
... Capilla del Mar Global Hotel (Mon Feb-1-2010 for 2 nights) Cra 1 No. 8-12 Avenida del Malecon Bocagrande, Carrera 1st. No. 8-12 Cartagena 3939, Colombia Tel: 57 (5) 665 16 66 or Tel: 57 (5) 650 1500 Fax: 57 (5) 665 51 45 We met our ...
struggling to leave
well i have been here for 11 days now and am strugglin to get out of here but its been a good experience i have definatly seen much more than i would have had i stayed a week or less. the first week was even crazier though as we saw fights on the street ...
Salsa and seafood
We were pretty excited arriving in Cartagena as the New Year celebrations were nearly upon us. Luckily our new found friends Sophie, Andy and Laura had found a great restaurant for dinner so we started New Years Eve outside a great Italian ...