Solar Cartagena Suites Hotel

... get away. I look up. Angie and Miguel are nowhere to be seen. Now what do I do? I remember they were going upstairs. Find the stairs....found them (and Angie). We walk upstairs and this guy calls me over. I wish I stayed on the ship....I go over and see him. He has a Three-Toed Sloth with him. Is this Guy (The Sloth) ever cute. Angie comes over. “You want to hold him?” he asks Angie. I know we’re ...

04 de Outubro de 2009. Continuo em Cartagena. O carro deveria ter chegado aqui na Quinta-feira passada. Liguei para a compania aqui e no Panama e me disseram que o navio quebrou<br>e que nao sabia quando iria terminar o conserto. Assim vai atrazando a minha viagem. Espero que la pela metade da semana eles consigam resolver essa situacao.

... amazed with the experience. And then we got out and walked to a lake nearby where there were women that washed all of the mud off of you. They were thorough too. Before I knew it, the woman that was helping me had pulled off my bra and was ordering off my underwear to wash off the mud! So, basically there were 20 some tourists sitting but naked in the lake while our undies got washed. lol. <br> <br> The next day our journey back to Venezuela began.

... shape, and there wasn't a lot to look at, though we did see a big crab and a spotted drum fish.<br><br>We went back to the island to do our surface interval, have a snack, and pick up the divers who had done the mini-course. Jen came on the second dive, which though not fantastic was much better. We saw some very cool little shrimps and a few other interesting things. After a quick lunch back at the ...

... ik dan ook bedacht dat het wel mooi geweest was en dat ik een bus zou pakken naar Taganga om daar de Ciudad Perdida trek te gaan doen en mijn PADI te halen.<br><br>Een terzijde; de mannetjes die hier buskaartjes verkopen zijn echt honden. Ze liegen dat ze barsten om je maar een kaartje te verkopen (heb ik nog niet op die manier meegemaakt in Zuid- Amerika)... maar zoals ik al zei dat is meer een mental note to myself<br>

We surived another bus journey and arrived In Cartagena for Easter and a whole week of chill-axing, wooo! Cartagena is a beautiful beachside town that was previously a Spanish fort. The old town is inside the old fortifications, big stone walls with lots of viewing holes and cannons, and we managed to find a hostel here. We spent a few afternoons walking around the fortifications, enjoying the old city ...

... were much safer than people will lead you to believe. People are for the most part very friendly and eager to help. The important exception here is some tourist related interactions, where there still seems to be a very third world, "scam the gringos any way we can" mentality. I, for one, really disliked this part of the country and it probably made the difference between a good and a great trip. That's not to say that with more local knowledge or some local friends, this ...

... cloud piercing mountains and stretches of desert. The only catch with all this diversity is that you need a lot of space to put it all in.<br><br><br>Well that was until Ecuador was invented. It's like God wanted all the features of a big country but needed them in a more portable format so he could show it off to his mates at work. And so iEcuador, or nano country came to be. All the features you want from continent compressed into a space only fractionally larger than a shopping ...

When landing in Cartagena, Colombia we couldnt figure out if the airport was near the ocean or the river. We were later disgusted to find out that was in fact the ocean!! It was so brown!!!! Anyway, we went for a walk down to the ¨beach¨where there was a wind storm. We could not believe people were swimming in this dirty water with sand flying everywhere. So we went back to the hostel to drink. We were staying in a dorm room with 4 Irish travllers. Two of ...

... in the same hostel as us, went back to Boca Grande and walked around the beach. It was way less crowded though still busy. The water though was absolutely perfect in temperature! We ended up hanging out at the same patio beach bar, chillin with the music and, of course Aguila Cerveza... When in Rome! Lol. The fruit juices are sooooooo delicious and I can´t seem to get enough.. in fact that´s pretty much all I order as beverages when we eat.... forget the liquor! My ...