Stranded in Cartagena
July 3rd 2014 Cusco remains my favourite South American city but Cartagena comes a close second. We had travelled down from Santa Marta with high expectations - unusually for a city The Lonely Planet identifies Cartagena as the #1 must see in Colombia - and the city didn't disappoint. Cartagena, or at least the old part, juts out into the Carribean and is ringed by a defensive wall intended to protect the city
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