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Cartagena Slideshow
Cartagena
Travel Blogs from Cartagena, Colombia
Colombian colonial charms
... trip that we've been approached by locals (usually old men!) and managed to have good long discussions in spanish…! Cartagena had us absolutely enchanted... pengs: We wandered around Cartagena for a few days, enjoying the plazas and squares, the ...
Only fotos!
No hablo español
... of it and I can´t remember any of the verbs quick enough for my sentences to be less than about 15 seconds long. In Cartagena they eat a lot of rice and plantain, I think I´m averaging two plates of rice plantain and chicken/meat/fish a day. The ...
Day 7 - Storming the Cartagena Fortress
... cheese inside). When matched with the fried plantain and coconut rice, it was outstanding. The fish was prepared in traditional Cartagena style, in a light vegetable sauce, and it was equally decadent. What a fantastic meal. We stayed long enough to ...
Mudbowl
... to protect everything. The whole process took almost 2 centuries, but most of everything is still standing and Cartagena still remains Colombia's major port. Inside the walled city are a bunch of colonial buildings, old churches, and ...
Cartagena - Take Your Clothes Off Hot!!
... seem like the good life, even the bums seem better off here than in Bogota....well at least they must be warmer... Cartagena de Indias, founded in 1533, is legendary both for its rich history and unrivaled colonial beauty. Proudly called the ...
Back to old Cartagena and Volcan de Lodo El Totumo
After tearing ourselves away from Playa Blanca we decided to stay one more night in Cartagena before commencing our million kilometre journey to Buenos Aires. We booked back into the Marlin Hostel (30,000 pesos) and had a wondrous shower (it had been 4 ...
Always take the weather with you
... a half-flooded shanty town on the other. Pictures don't really prepare you for poverty quite that unsweetened. Cartagena itself was intimidating to begin with. It was rainy and getting dark when we arrived. The taxi drivers didn't want ...
Day 26
Today there were no classes; it was "port prep" day and we just had a few meetings. I got up really early and was able to post what blogs I had written but I was still behind on the writing part. I didn't write because I had finally been shown how to use ...
Cartagena
From Caracas I flew to Cartagena, Colombia. Cartagena is mixture of African, Caribbean, and Spanish culture. I spent my short stay here exploring the historic center. Surrounded by a castle wall, Christopher Columbus and other ...
looking for pirates in Cartagena
... dead coral is interesting). Throwing tour boat anchors into coral, and running jet skis up and down probably isn't helping. Cartagena has been a little disappointing in its over zealous fleecing of tourists, but overall we are sad to be leaving Colombia ...
Cartagena.. Oh what a lovely place!
... the relaxing quality of Taganga and make our way to Cartagena. Thats not such a bad thing though. Cartagena is meant to be the most beautiful town in Colombia as well as the access point to Colombia´s most beautiful beach, Playa Blanca. We really do ...
Sweltering Cartagena
... out a few miles along the coast to the beaches. There is no shortage of fresh fruits and vegetables all over Cartagena, and the food is excellent. Traversing the walled city I´ve now encountered three moribund dogs sprawled out on the ...
Back to Cartagena to search for a Boat
... the Canal. (In an ideal world this is what I would like to do, but it's not looking too promising from Cartagena). Day 1 Searching for a boat I found the Nautical club of Cartagena after a long walk in the midday sun. There are hundreds of huge ...
Locombia
... we were used to it was a real shock to be on the coast in temperatures well over 30 degrees with high humidity. Cartagena is a really lovely place, it´s right on the coast and has a stunning walled old town with gorgeous colonial buildings and elegant ...
Cartagena, Colombia Mud Volcano
In Cartegena, Columbia, the three of us went on a tour in a private van with the owner driver, a retired trucker from Columbia who had worked in New Jersey for over 30 years, a thin dark Columbian, Niko, who sat in the back with us trying to impress ...
Humbled
... . A 22 hour bus to Cali from here is $70 USD...$70...man...I can live off of that for 10 days here in Cartagena. The bus companies spend money paying off the FARC and the paramilitary so they dont bother the buses, so the prices are usually through the ...
Cartagena - The Cultural Capital of Colombia
... to be a good omen for the remainder for the trip in terms of meeting friendly and outgoing people. Cartagena was but a small piece of Colombia, but very impressed thus far! [Ciaran] The five amigos become two again, sad to say goodbye to ...
Cartegena
For the first time in Colombia our hostel provides free breakfasts so this morning we all get stuck into coffee and sugar coated cornflakes. Today we are heading to the nearby beach for some sunbathing. I take my laundry with me as I haven´t ...
Hello, Colombia! Hello, South America!
... of Getsemani, we found out from a taxi driver (a constant source of useful information) that in a few days, Cartagena would be celebrating their independence. Not Colombia´s independence, but Cartagena´s. I´m still not sure exactly what ...
Cartagena
12/06/08 When we arrived in Cartagena we both got an instant good vibe, the taxi driver was really helpful and was giving us a quick tour of the city but our hostel was full! We stayed 10m down the road which was more expensive but reserved a room for ...
Caribbean Wonders
... the old town, and also on the large walls surrounding the town. The wall had taken over 200 years to finish, as Cartagena was constantly being attacked by pirates and also poor weather. 29/01/2011 - Saturday We departed the hotel in the morning and ...
Take me down to paradise city...
... gutter vi traff i nasjonalparken. Det hele ble til en ganske så livlig kveld med noen dråper rom og bittelitt øl. Siden tyskerne skulle til Cartagena slik som meg, tok vi på søndag likegodt følge på bussen også, og 4 timer senere tok vi inn på et ...
Arrrr Welcome Home
... is) boat ride away from home. Yikes! In the meantime, I have every intention of enjoying my current home of Cartagena, Colombia. The old colonial city sits right on the Caribbean and is absolutely stunning. Because of its roots as ...
Glorious mud
A group of us from the school ventured out this afternoon about 50k north of Cartagena to wallow around like hippos in mud! It´s the bizarrest of things... a volcano about 250m deep full of sulphuric mud that you can bathe in! Because the mud is so ...
Tha Cartagena III
... We entered through a large archway, above which was a clock-tower, and into something different from the surrounding streets. We'd heard Cartagena was so beautiful and in truth outside the walls the town is quite "edgy", there are a lot ...