Las Americas Beach Resort Cartagena

HII ALL!!! <br><br><br>Cartagena is amazing!!! Since I've been here its been nothing but good things, good food, and good people! The first day was mostly getting aquatinted to the boat, and going grocery shopping and going out to dinner. After that the work started cleaning, organizing, fixing stuff, installing, polishing, more cleaning, more organizing, more fixing stuff, its like it never ends.. but its fine because I've been learning a TON of stuff. The names of all the boat ...

Cartagena je grad na sjeveru Kolumbije te ima skoro milijun stanovnika. Bila sam tamo u 9. mjesecu dok je bilo uzasno vruce. kazu da inace nije tako. ali meni je bilo cak toliko vruce da sam bila lijena otici i vidjeti stari centar grada zbog cega su mi se kasnije smijali, ali me i grdili. ali bila sam upozorena na klimu tako da ne mogu reci da nisam znala :) <br>inace, ljudi koji su bili u Cartageni i u Dubrovniku kazu da im je Dubrovnik ljepsi od Cartagene ...

... stayed at our spot on Calle Porvenir, The El Viajero Hotel. Awesome place.<br>One of the wonderful cleaning ladies, Astrid, always took care of us cleaning our laundry and bringing us towels. She was amazing. We constantly sought her out and tried to buy her juice smoothies. The final day we left I gave her my email and I was sad to leave such a nice place and people. We'll definitely come back and stay there again.<br>

... all your senses. <br><br>Yesterday, I began the day...by sweating. Also by doing a little shopping around town. My plan was to take the City Tour in the afternoon. I asked if this was really worth it or if it was cheesy and lame and was told it was worth it as you could get into both the Castillo San Felipe (a Spanish built fort) and El Convento de la Popa (convent high on a hill overlooking the city) as part of the tour and save yourself the expense and hassle of working out the ...

... hookers here, or frigid, that's an interesting juxtaposition. This town is full of interesting juxtapositions and we sense that even though we only know the touristic center. When we walk home, some *****s offer us massage and ****i****i. "Muy rico, muy economico ****i****i suckisucki. Cinquenta mil pesos." Conversations with prostitutes usually never surpass a certain level, where only the erectile parts of my being are being taken into consideration. I don't really like that. I'm a bad ...

... the Medellin prior to visiting and since visiting. I didn´t do much talking since my Spanish is not well. Medellin is a large city and used to have tons of murders thanks to the cocaine market and Escobar. It isn´t that bad now. It is large and surrounded by mountains with houses upon houses stacked up going all the way up the hills. It is spectacular to see at night and the day. A lot of poverty. Stayed at a hostel for two ...

... Thanks to a complete absence of any local planning regulations we are quite literally "on the beach", just 5 metres away from the waterline. It's nudging 30 degrees so the temptation to jump in the water is too good to resist, but before we jump in our host gives us a warning about a fish that lives in the water with poisonous spikes. A 10 second mime conveys the general notion that stepping on said creature is not the brightest of ideas, but if we gently shuffle our feet in the water ...

... thankfully weren´t the only ones petrified - we saw a seasoned Columbian Army Leuitenant bless himself during one of the very short lulls in the trip. We make it into Cartegena after a long day and find a walled colonial city so beautifully restored that any country in Europe would be proud of it. It`s Carnaval time too so there`s quite the atmosphere too.

... the city was the key outpost of the Spanish empire and influenced much of Colombia´s history. Today Cartagena has expanded dramatically and is surrounded by vast suburbs. It is now Colombia´s largest port and an important industrial center of 1.1 million inhabitants. Nevertheless, the old walled town has changed very little. It´s a living museum of 16th- and 17th- century Spanish architecture with narrow winding streets, churches, plazas, and large mansions ...

... and four times in Taganga in Colombia. So I felt I had accomplished filling in my diving quote for the trip.<br><br>But once on the boat and reaching Islas del Rosario, I immediately started regretting my choice. Oh my! It was just GORGEOUS! The waters were so cristal tear, you wouldn't believe it. So clear, I just wanted to jump off board and start swimming! Of course I didn't, but man, did I want to! I can't remember ever seeing water so clear as it was in ...