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Cruisin Colombia
... fishing town of Taganga. Once a fishing village, Taganga has been invaded by the tourist and become a 'must do' on the Gringo Trail. Some people hate it, some people love it - too look at it is disgusting, the streets are little more that strips of torn up rocks and earth that happen to run between the buildings, the litter is astonishing. You can literally find anything on the streets here and not be surprised, from shoes to crisp packets, batteries to bits of old rope, bottles, ...
A day trip to Guatape & Trivs learns Spanish
... who has the world's largest collection of football team shirts. First stop the town of Penon de Guatape in the Guatape lake region. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatap 3;. The lake was formed by the damming of the river for a hydro electric plant. We see a town with a square dominated by a bronze Phoenix to commemorate the 'drowning' of the old town by the reservoir waters. We arrive at Penon de Gutaape. A huge 66 million ton ...
Cartagena dag 2
... av Santa Marta, men som man må minne på seg selv, dette er Colombia, ikke Norge. Ting foregår på en litt annen måte. Etter å ha sjekket inn og fått tildelt et nydelig rom med aircondition, spiste vi en matbit og tok noen øl hos hostellets inhouse italienske restaurant før vi fant sengen. og vi må bare få understreke, aircondition er himmelen!
Dagen i morgen går nok med til å bli kjent med nærområdet og planlegging av aktiviteter resten av tiden vi er her.
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CAPTAIN SLOG STARDATE 93.12
... his donkey about for the tourists to take photos. She was called Rosie and she was absolutely beautiful, covered in colourful flowers.
Another way of travelling around the old town was by horse drawn carriages. I was quite pleased to see that the horses were generally in quite good nick. We were taken into a kind of museum of the Spanish Inquisition – yuk, what a horrible lot they were, it must have taken ...
I loved it, Jeff not so much...
... lunch time. I was on a mission that day to try the national food of Chile, the empanada. In Pomaire there are a couple of enticing restaurants, and after some deliberation we decided on Los Naranjos. We were just about the only people there, but the place looked like it could be really fun when it was filled up because it had festive decorations and a stage for a band and traditional dancers. While we were there it was ...