Hotel da Pietro Cartagena

... got to see why everyone talked of these trips so highly. Such a shame the weather sucked the rest of the trip but you cant have it all..<br><br>We also swam that afternoon in the sea, the most brilliant blue i've ever seen. No dolphins this time round but really cool none the less!<br><br>We arrived in to Cartagena around midnight but it was to late for immigration so we had to stay on board last night before finally getting on to dry land this morning. Bo! I'm now ...

... and even getting angry with each other. In the end it was working out way too expensive so myself and Brian and, shockingly enought, the Isreali boys, who had engineered the whole outing, decided not to go. I don't think there was any badness from the others but I still felt a bit ****** as we watched them go. <br><br>We went for a little wander around the old city and it is just something else. The majority is ...

... bumps, traffic and the inevitable police checkpoints. <br><br>We were lucky enough to be the first tour to arrive. The Mud baths looked like a miniature version of a classic volcano, like mount Fuji in Japan, the top was only about 30 feet up. There were a set of stairs to take you up, and a separate set of stairs to come down. At the top the cylindrical opening was about 10 feet in diameter, filled with thick, creamy mud. There were some locals already in ...

I´ve been in Cartagena on the carribean coast for a few days taking some spanish classes and making the most of the beautiful old town.<br><br>Although the surrounding area is extremely popular with rich Colombians and tourstis, I´ve kept to the colonial part of the city where it´s a little touristy but where you can while away the hours just wandering the streets admiring the architecture ...

... the illusion that we are not alone on this path to eventual decay. We always express ourselves in the hope our words echo in the receptive mental chamber of the Other. It doesn't matter how black and nihilistic our words are. And there he sits on his chair, the writer, pressing the nail of his thumb slowly in the cushions and suppressing a long yawn. He is bored by the whole situation. The question remains: Why doesn't he write about meaningless hummingbirds instead of the meaningless ...

... br><br><br>Cuba is well known by car lovers and travelers as being a mobile museum of some of the finest preserved automobilia from 1950's America. Due to the trade embargo imposed on them after the Cuban Missile Crisis that's pretty much about where car technology ends in Havana, and as a result the streets are choc a bloc full with some of the most curvaceous chromed creations ever to have been spawned from the golden age of motoring. Desotos, Packards, Cadillacs... they are rolling ...

... Vulkan gegangen....sehr sehr lustige Erfahrung....Ist ein richtiger Vulkan nur ist die Lava wohl sehr tief im Vulkan und darüber sind so einige Meter Schlamm der von Zeit zu Zeit vor sich hin blubbert.Bin als dort ¨Baden¨ gegangen! wie gesagt eine sehr sehr lustige Erfahrung...schaut euch die Bilder an.... Am nächsten Tag bin ich dann weiter nach Santa Marta gefahren. 6 Stunden Östlich von Cartagena und auch an der Küste!

... from their ears (or they may all be wearing hearing aids) and name badges which seem to provide them with a sense of a belonging. Mosquitoes are a pain. A non-stop pain. Everywhere. Everywhere! The historic centre is surrounded by fortified walls, designed to protect the city from pirate incursions during the 17th ...

... they had a chilled raspberry soup to die for, and they also had fresh blackberries in the fruit station so I dropped some of those in my soup too. Oh man, I could eat that every day and not get tired of it. So when Erika called today, we had learned our lesson from last night and made an 8pm reservation at Pacific Heights thru her. The service was fantastic tonight. Pacific Heights has been busy on this cruise so they've brought extra staff over from the specialty restaurants ...

After my stay in Taganga I took a taxi to Santa Marta and from there a bus with the Brasilia company to Cartagena. Supposedly, under normal circumstances the trip should take 4 hours, but even though the bus driver was driving like a total maniac, the trip still took 5 hours.<br><br>In Cartagena, I went to a hostel called Casa Viena where the night cost me around $5 USD for a bed. The first day I hardly did anything at all, except out to eat, but the ONLY place open ...