Bouganvilla

Pirates of the Caribbean

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August 19th 2009
After so long in the Andes and the southern hemisphere it's great to be on the Caribbean coast in Cartagena. It's very hot and humid here, lovely. This is a beautiful city, or at least the old town is. We spent the days without any plan just wandering the streets, squares and city walls, perfect. We think this is the town that Pirates of the Caribbean at Tokyo Disneyland was based on, if it's not ... read more

South America » Colombia » Cartagena

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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