2 busy weeks into our trip already so backtracking a bit, trying to catch up but lounging in the sun is far more appealing!!... 3 flights, 5818 miles and 31.5 hours later we arrived in Cartagena, a city on the northern coast of Colombia. After a rough night's 'sleep' in Bogota airport the tropical humidity of Cartagena hit us as soon as we walked off the plane. The 35 degree heat was more in line with what we imagined than Bogota's feeble 12 degrees. Blue skies, palm trees and the Caribbean Sea is exactly what we'd been looking forward to! It was a short taxi ride to our hostel, El Viajero. It seems instead of signalling, a loud blast of the horn is preferred so we navigated the narrow one way streets to a chorus of
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