Hotel Playa Cartagena

... , upon all the apparatus, to make it stop. At least for a while anyway. So we've packed our bags & checked out of Hotel Reality, to go wage battle with jungles, rivers, ruins, ball-busting merchants and language barriers. This is our Story.

... out, she said, "no way" - I was relieved. She is proving to be a really cool girl. We took a shuttle to Cartagena, and checked into the La Playa hotel in Boca Grande, a cab-ride away from the old city. It was already about 6pm, so we got something to ...

To be updated Bocagrande Santa Domingo Church Puerta Del Reloj La Popa Hill Isla Del Rosario Playa Blanca Cartagena is surrounded by a massive fort to protect the city and all it's wealth and Jules. HOT TIPS for travllers: (1) Hotel Villa ...

After Playa Blanca we got back to Cartagena, as the Playa Blanca tour was organized from Cartagena. We stayed here a few more days to see the city and to get some stuff organised. I had to backup pictures, making some calls and updating this blog again. ...

... escusa para bajarse de la canoa un momento...para luego volver a montarla. Finalmente, decidimos recorrer por última vez Cartagena, para volver a ver sus espectaculares balcones y callecitas...no nos aburríamos de la ciudad amurallada...fue un placer ...

... me not take Cartagena to my heart. I shared this feeling with two other girls and we decided to spend the last day of Cartagena on Playa Blanca, a beach which you could reach by boat. We departed with some proper tourists on the morning from the harbor in ...

... García Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera which is one of my favourite books. We strolled through Cartagena's maze of cobbled alleys and looked up at the enormous balconies covered in bougainvillea. There are so many beautiful buildings ...

... situation, and it was quite relieving to find that the guy did not have any knives or weapons on him. My favourite part of Cartagena however, was spending my nights in the tiny little plaza Trinidad, near my hotel.  Up until about 10 or 11 at ...

So we traded our hammocks in for loud city nights in this romantic seaside city of Cartagena. The old town in the center is completely surrounded by 15 ft. stone walls, protecting itself from the threat of pirates. There are actually old pirate-looking ...

... the island and had some ceviche with crayfish from a stall on the jetty. We then boarded the boat and set off for Playa Blanca on Isla Baru - a peninsular off Cartagena.  The boat let us off for an hour to have lunch and a swim, and we were quite ...

... between Colombia and Bolivia and a bull fight for our trip up to the Caribbean though.  Aside from being a known tourist destination, Cartagena is a perfect place to spend a few days in the sun and on the beaches.  Today we spent our second day ...

... worden ondergeduwd, waarna de foto is genomen. De dagen erna heb ik playa blanca vertoeft een strand op het Baru eiland 45min vanaf Cartagena. Heel basic met een tent op het strand zonder douche ed. Maar wel prima ontspannen met een zee van bijna 30 ...

... 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 ...

Cartagena is a gorgeous vacation spot.  Perfect for boating to Islas del Rosario, snorkeling, exploring the maze of cobblestone streets and enjoying nightly dancing/music in the old town's plazas.  Bogota is beautiful as well ...

... , so gives the impression of complete weightlessness. - Relaxing on the white beaches and in the blue seas of the beautiful beach of Playa Blanca. Apart from aggressive hawkers, one of the most blessed places I've seen. Just so lovely! - Sushi, crepes: ...

... ". Not nice to be so cynical but it was a little sad to see the whole charade for both parties.   Cartagena had a slightly darker side, but it's also a beautiful city, with the old city tucked within the ...

... country but feel so connected to them already. Man, the Church (with the capital C) really feels like a big family. Leaving Cartagena It´s Monday afternoon now and I am at an internet cafe at the Cartagena Bus Terminal. I am leaving this beach city to ...

... genius Colombian life. We sat at La Pavia down the street for pizza takeout as we talked with the Austrian owner about living in Cartagena. For him living there for three years, he still didn't know the city like we did. The pizza was good but small and ...

... okkur á Playa Blanca, sem innfćddir tala um sem fallegustu strönd Kólumbíu. Vöknuđum snemma og komum okkur á matarmarkađ Cartagena ţar sem menn og veitingahús versla í matinn. Ţar fundum viđ innfćdda bátsmenn á leiđ til Playa Blanca ...

... where we figured out that you can negotiate bus prices, and saved some money for the first time. The overnight bus trip from Cartagena to Medellin was stalled for about 25 minutes by a 16 yr old Colombian princess who threw a fit because she wanted a ...