Hotel Nitana Covenas

... were very, very kind and said yes.<br><br>Devin and I set up camp in the empty lot next to the restaurant and sat down to enjoy another amazing view and sunset. We are getting sooo spoiled! Very quickly the whole family was over, asking questions and checking out the van. They were very kind and full of questions. The little boy was adorable. After we exhausted all of the questions we could handle in our ...

... season works when the weather is exactly the same all year round, sunny, hot and humid, but still), most of everything was shut up. Didn´t really matter to us though, as the main reason we came here was to take a boat trip for the day out to the Islands of San Bernado off the coast. We had a beautiful day, hopping from one tiny idyllic island to ...

... next and when we tried to ask they all laughed at us. We were eventually invited in and for the first 10 mins the doc thought we were swiss. I left with yet another set of drugs. I should by shares in pharmaceuticals.<br><br>Once slightly recovered we ventured out to the San Bernado Islands which was a fantastic little day trip with 5000 other Colombianos. They are quite a happy bunch on holiday. We were the only foreigners on ...

Kite Adventure Knowing that I would come back to Cartagena I decided to join a very enthusiastic Colombian adventurer named Chamey from San Andres Island, Colombia and Rebecca from Switzerland to go on a kite adventure trip a few hours south of Cartagena to explore the beaches ...

A festival so gruesome you can´t believe it can actually exist. One big wooden bull ring, thousands of spectators and fifty angry irritated bulls released into the ring one at a time. It was free for all, and anyone can enter the ring to run with the bull. The skies were blue and the sun was strong with few clouds in the sky. The air was thick and musty. The ring was scattered with professional matadors on horses, advertisers waving company banners and foolish individuals ...

Waking bleary-eyed on an overnight bus from Medellin to Tolu, I was surprised to feel like I'd had a decent sleep. There's always a slight moment of panic when you're half-asleep and the driver tells you that you've arrived. We quickly stuff our sleeping bags into their covers, pick up our day-pack and go for the big day-packs out of the luggage hold. Ed looks like a real catch - hair sticking up at all angles, unshaven and his sleeping mask dangling under ...

We have made our way a few hours west along the Caribbean coast, to the small town of Tolú located in "Golfo de Morrosquillo, a gateway to the "Archipielago de San Bernardo". Tolú is kind of touristy, with local Colombians that is. Although a few backpackers has also started to discover this part of Colombia. But we are here at the end of May, in the rainy season, so we have the town more or less to ourselves, only sharing with the locals. We find an empty ...

I am so glad to be leaving the smokey air of Gainesville. The other day ash was falling from the sky. We flew out of Miami to Cartagena, Colombia on Avianca. The flight was only about 2 hours and 30 minutes. I really didn´t expect it to be such a short trip over. It went by even faster because they served a meal on the flight. Pretty impressive because you know a domestic U.S. flight gives you peanuts. As soon as we got off the ...

Cartagena, Colombia - "Me llamo Luna" If the flight down to Colombia was any indication then this was going to be one helluva country. As the Airies twin propellor plane touched down in hot and humid Cartagena the crew shook hands with everyone, out of politeness or relief that we had landed safely I am not sure, and then the staff inside the airport could not do enough for us to ensure we grabbed a cab and were not ripped off in the process. The only thing ...

Cartagena de Indias (better known as just Cartagena), **, Sunday, March 11th-15th, 2007...Maccie Ds, the usual. Cartagena is a city on the Caribbean coast whose old quarter is surrounded by large, thick walls and ring of outer forts. Built by the Spanish in 1533, the purpose of this construction was to give the city additional protection against the continuous pirate attacks. Cartagena is said to be legendary for both its beauty and history. But ...