Cartagena

On the shores of the Carribean sea: Cartagena and Playa Blanca.

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August 4th 2013
We left Leticia north into Colombia the only way you can really, by air, and headed for Cartagena with a sleepless nights stay in Bogota airport between connecting flights. As we arrived into Cartagena it felt as though we had stepped off the plane into a sauna and it has been hot and sticky ever since. Cartagena is a beautiful town, with lemon coloured houses on narrow colonial streets, wooden ba ... read more

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Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more