Tres Banderas Cartagena
Calle Cochera del Hobo 38-66 Cartagena, EX14 9JQ, Colombia
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New Year in Cartagena
After the park we had gone back to to Tanganga just because we knew a place to stay and it was getting late. Leaving in the morning we set out round Santa Marta and in no time at all we were passing Barranquilla. It's a city with loads of romantic associations for me as it’s mentioned in a lot of classic cumbia tunes but apparently it’s a big noisy dirty port with little to see so we pushed on round it. It’s also where the mouth of ...
Musica y Mojito en Cartagena
Überpünktlich waren die Fahrer von Mar y Sol mit einem Mercedes-Sprinter um 9:30 Uhr beim Casa de Felipe um mich und noch drei weitere Leute für die Fahrt nach Cartagena abzuholen. Ich dachte ja eigentlich, es sei eine ganz gute Idee, einen Shuttlerservice zu bemühen, wenn das Hostal sowas schon vermittelt (man muss nicht erst nach Santa Marta gurken und dort einen Bus besteigen), aber die Einsammeltour aller etwa 20 Fahrgäste durch ...
Mud baths and cold beers
... at the board and seen the next boat listed to leave was still 6 days away! Thankfully the hostel found us a boat leaving in 2 days, however we were informed we would have to sleep in a cupboard and share a bed with another couple. While this was strange, we thought it better than waiting in Cartagena for almost a week. We were assured it was only for the first 2 nights on the boat as the other nights we would be sleeping in tents on ...
Terror on the streets of Cartagena....
... we will one day) and eating the local street food, something we named an eggy meat disc but is in fact called arepa de huevo (a fried cornmeal cake with egg and meat) which probably sounds gross but we love them!
We have now been in Cartagena for three days and it has rained for almost the whole time. Although we have enjoyed the sights of the Old Town and Getsemani (the red light ...
Business as usual
October 10, 2010 - Cartagena, ColombiaIn spite of the fact that most cities in Colombia suffer from negative press, we did not feel unsafe in Cartagena. Of course, we visited the city as part of a tour so that may have influenced our feelings. We had docked at a very busy container port then boarded a minibus for our tour. As we drove from the port to our first stop, we saw a number of neighbourhoods that were in disrepair, even saw at several work sites, ...



