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Cartagena Slideshow
Cartagena
Travel Blogs from Cartagena, Colombia
Feel the heat
... quick start on their diving lessons up the coast a bit, while I needed to see Cartegena before following a couple days later. Cartagena is a smaller city of about 750,000. It's a popular tourist destination for Colombians and Spanish, and a regular stop ...
HALF THE COUNTRIES
... now driven through and visited seven Central American countries in approximately 2 months and 5400 miles. We will be heading to Cartagena, Columbia - the first of the seven South American countries which we will visit. We estimate by the time we return ...
At Sea
We were at sea today but not able to sleep in too late as we had our character breakfast at 8:30. We met in Parrot Cay and saw Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale. After breakfast, Nikki and I went to another Art of Entertaining ...
Cartagena
... situation, and it was quite relieving to find that the guy did not have any knives or weapons on him. My favourite part of Cartagena however, was spending my nights in the tiny little plaza Trinidad, near my hotel. Up until about 10 or 11 at ...
Cartagena Daze: A Tale of Two Beaches
... ASK THE PRICE FIRST! On my last day we take a trip out to a in the words of our host Felix (a Cartagena born New York percussionist) a "beautiful secluded beach". We look for a cheap cab and end up with a rusty relic with smoke ...
Caribbean paradise
... 's with dark skinned locals some even wearing traditional outfits which seem to be colouful fabrics and patterns! Wow are we in Africa or Colombia? Cartagena is not so big and certainly walkable, and to be honest it is the nicest way to see the city or ...
Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia
... nbsp; On February 23rd I took a one way flight to Cartagena, Colombia, supposedly one of the most beautiful cities of South America. I always had eyeballed Colombia, and in particular ...
Cartagena
... touristy spot I have seen in Colombia, the number of foreigners is still low. During my time in Cartagena I met once again some great people from Colombia and from other parts of the world. Although I got robbed at knifepoint on my last night together ...
Strand trifft Geschichte
... historische Stadtkern ist wunderschön, mit zahlreichen kleinen Gassen, kolonialen Häusern und einem dementsprechenden Charme. Cartagena ist darüberhinaus recht vielseitig. Hafen, Chaosviertel (normales südamerikanisches Stadtbild), Reichenviertel, ...
Cartagena - Quito: 53h oder 1500km im Bus...
... ( und z.T. schweren Kopfes) in alle Winde zerstreut. Einige sind retour nach Panama geflogen, anere weiter nach Bogota und einige blieben in Cartagena. Wir machten uns, begleitet von vielen "oh ihr Armen", "Viel Glueck" und "Ihr seit ja krank!) auf zu der ...
Nick and the volcano
... . Very pleasant experience, combining weightlessness and muddiness. Will post some pics asap because they are hilarious. The old town in Cartagena is incredible. It took me a couple of visits to fully appreciate it, the shapes and colours of ...
Catagena a Carribbean Dream
... made Cartagena such a popular destination for tourists and natives alike, many years before backpackers started filtering through Cartagena was frequented by many Carribbean cruise liners. Leaving the Dreamer on Friday dinnertime to hugs and ...
Our favorite town so far!
Columbia... We spent 5 hrs in Panamas fine airport on a stop over on the way to Columbia. We finally got ourselves a spare camera battery and on top of that, we bought a tiny little tripod, in the hope of getting more photos with both of us in ...
The Caribbean Sea!
... of tunnels that were used for sleeping, storage and escape. The castle proved to be extremely successful and saw that Cartagena was defended successfully from 7 separate full scale attacks. The walls angled to deflect cannon balls and the castle walls ...
Colombia.... Ipiales - Cali - Medallin - Cartagena
... Bogota, but having been there already for Christmas, I decided to take another route and meet up with Feeley in the north of Colombia in Cartagena. Feeley had been home for Christmas, and Ed, my other travel buddy was at this stage in Costa Rica I think. ...
Colombia
... que con su vestimenta representa a todos los colombianos y trata de mostrar al mundo la imagen real de Colombia y su maravillosa gente. Salimos de Cartagena y llegamos a la finca de Guillermo, un lugar grande con parques, dos lagos, un montón de ...
The BIG Shave!!
The site of the big event was Cartagena, a lovely wee town on the Carribian coast. We found an old-school barbers shop who were game to shave the mighty bush. It was quite an occassion with loads of laughs from spectators, barber, and barbee ...
Colombia - Cartagena
... me off in the nearby lagoon (I was somewhat startled when they whipped off my bikini and washed that seperately!) We really loved Cartagena and would definitely return. Do not believe what you hear, as long as you are sensible, it´s as safe as any ...
North Columbia
The heat coming off the plane into Cartagena was something else. An uneventful flight, they even fed us! We got to the hostel and the Isreali boys were there, regaling all and sundry with their adventures. We sat around for a while and ...
Colombia te quiero
... boat with them and the captain didn´t seem too appealing. So we hopped on a plane to Cartagena. Considering Irish people needed a visa to get in to Colombia until January because of our republican friends (apparently they weren´t the only ones!!), we ...
Wandering around the walled city
... same. Anyways, I´ll make this REALLY brief since Chris is up and apparently starving for breakfast. We arrived in Cartagena Friday morning on an overnight bus from Medellin (we were only there for a few hours after the car ride from ...
UNESCO Heritage site
... been in Cartagena for over a week now, after enjoying a 3.5 hour, air conditioned ride on a small bus from Santa Marta. Cartagena has tons of history associated with it, so I'm not sure where to start. Esthetics: Again, we are located ...
Paper mache
cartagena emodies much of latinoamerica in the huge and visible disparity between the luxury hotels and condominiums of bocagrande and the simple concrete houses that pack the roadsides outside of downtown. just a few blocks beyond the compact old old ...
Onto a new continent !!
... we left old Panama City and Central America behind and caught a cheapie flight (www.aires.aero all in Español) to Cartagena in Colombia. Was a bit anxious all morning as we only had one way flights, and could easily have been turned back, but instead it ...
Romancing the stone
... architecture. It reminds me of Antigua in Guatemala, only much bigger and with a lot more history to share. Cartagena is Colombias biggest port which was involved in numerous pirate attacks back in the 16th century. Ít still has many ...
We spent almost all day on a boat....
We were told that one of the things we had to do while in Cartagena was to go to Playa Blanca on the Island of Baru. The day before, we made our reservation for a day trip to the island. Little did we realize, we would be on the boat for about 6 hours and ...
Cartagena
Diana and I flew up to Cartagena. It was a beautiful city and reminded me a lot of St. Augustine. Diana booked an amazing hotel, Charleston Cartagen Hotel, that had been converted from a monastery from the 17th century so it was large and ...
Cartagena - Last South American Stop
... and spoken poetry. Everyone (from Grandmas to children) was dancing and the whole place was one big fiesta! Sunday was our last day in Cartagena. We had arranged to visit the Mud Volcano about 45 minutes out of the city. Our bus picked us up at 8.30am and ...