Cartagena

The day we left South America

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June 26th 2006
We spent our last day in Cartagena in Colombia, it is a beautiful city... very colonial Spanish. We arrived on the bus from Santa Marta and got chatting to a local women who was visiting her family.. and she invited us to stay with her family!! This is a real reflection on how friendly the Colombians are. So we stayed in her sons apartment, right in the centre of the city... it was great. W ... 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