El Dorado Hotel Cartagena
Av San Martin No1 4 - 41, Bocagrande Cartagena, Colombia
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An early one... :-(
We woke up in Cali extremely early for our bus. The ordered taxi arrived nicely on time and we were very pleased we ordered one on seeing the prostitutes and other dodgy looking people on the street outside. We waved goodbye to the hotel guy and the taxi took off to the bus station. After a while we started to get concerned that the taxi was …
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Family matters
A few days ago the Bressler family completed the best family vacation ever. Colombia proved not only to be extremely safe for travel (that's why you have to look past US travel advisories!!) but completely enchanting for everyone. I am going to try to remember everything we did....
Day 1 - I had the day to myself in Cartagena since my family wasn't arriving until close to midnight. I explored the old city a bit but mostly just relaxed at the hotel (after ...
Cartagena - Perle der Karibik
... renoviert wird. Und wirklich sehr schön und professionell! Auch finden sich in der Altstadt keine blinkenden oder bunten Reklametafeln oder Ladenschilder, sondern es gibt lediglich dezente silberne Tafeln oder Schriftzüge - sehr elegant. Ich nehme an, dass dies eine der Auflagen für die Gewährung von Mitteln ist, die aus dem UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe-Topf fließen - recht haben sie!
Auffällig sind auch die zahlreichen, ...
Medellin and Cartagena
... used to have a bad reputation as the drug lord Pablo Escobar used to live (and run the city pretty much). This has changed in the last few years and Medellin in now very modern compared to Bogota, and has Colombia's only metro! We took the cable car, which is a part of the metro, up to the mountains where they have a national park. The cable car goes over the poorer areas of the cities, almost like Rio's favelas. They are very colorful and bustling with life. On the ...
Cartagena & Fritz-the-cat
... the 8 days sailing around the Galapagos I have happily accepted that I am just not made for boats and I can happily live the rest of my life without the need to go on any more overnight boats!
The morning of the third day we arrived at the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama. The San Blas Islands consist of 378 islands and cays, of which only 49 are inhabited. The local people are ...



