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Visiting
Cartagena turned out to be one of the best experiences of my life.The city is absolutely amazing and there are lots of things to see and do there.
I was a bit fed up with my boring life in Sata Marta and decided to spend a few days in Cartagena. Sindy understood my situation completely and was very responsive to my request. She got me get in touch with Aiesec Cartagena and before long I had a place to stay and people offering to show me around.
Once there, I didn't waste much time indoors and headed to
San Pedro Memorial House which is nowadays a Museum and has a rather sad history. Apparently San Pedro, of Spanish origin got to Colombia where he started dedicating his life to the abolition of slavery. He couldn't achieve total abolition,due to obvious obstacles, so his mission in life became looking after slaves. He dedicated his life to them, he was thier teacher, thier priest, thier doctor, theri healer.He called himself 'the slave of the slaves' and led a very pios life.
Next I visited
Boca Grande which is the touristic zone with tall buildings and sky-scrapers.I didn't imagine such
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Cartagena_city centerbuildings existed in Colombia, as I only knew Santa Marta where people live in tiny little houses. Awesome! Spent the rest of the day on the beach drinking Aguila and listening to nice Colombian music..
The following day we went to
San Felipe Castle, which is huge and where we playfully got lost in the tangled tunnels that go all around the castle. It is really worth visiting!The purpose of its erection was to protect Cartagena from foreign invasions, especially from pirates who were very interested in the wealth and the beauty of the city.
At night we went out, there are plenty of options when it comes to bars, discos.The Aiesecers decided on a nice, traditional place playing vallenato, salsa, champetta...I had a laugh trying to dance chapetta which is a very complicated dance style. The Aiesecers were very accommodating and I had a great time!
The best bit of the trip was actually a phone interview I had with Eafit, for a teaching vacancy they had for an Aiesec trainee. And I passed the interview with flying colours!😊 They accepted me to go teach there! That's excellent news, as I'm getting very tired of tiny
Cartagena
the shore boring Santa Marta! So my following entries will most likely be from Medellin, the famous drug cartel :P....
Aiesec Eafit insists that I should be there before the 10th July, so after Cartagena, there's packing and saying Good-bye to be done...
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Quote: "with huge sky-scrapers which as I lived only in Santa Marta so far I didn°t imagine they could actually exist in Colombia"
So you didn't thought that colombia would have skyscrapers, it shows the lack of knowledge and reputation the country has in front of the world; well enjoy and meet the other parts of the country that have to offer so much if you have time. looks may deceive