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South America » Colombia » Cartagena August 29th 2005

Cartagena de las Indias Chegámos a Cartagena de las Indias por volta das 02h da manhã. O dia seguinte foi para formalidades de entrada na Colômbia e encontrar hotel. Instalados no Marlin por cerca de € 3 por pessoa, fomos à descoberta de Cartagena. A primeira impressão foi sem dúvida as mulheres colombianas. Simplesmente lindas. Fiquei bastante surpreendido, estava à espera...mas não tanto! Cartagena é provavelmente a cidade colonial mais impressionante de toda a Colômbia. Fundada em 1533, rapidamente se tornou no porto priveligiado das caraíbas bem como o porto de saída do norte do continente. A situação estratégica tornou-a apetecivel por todos, principalmente piratas que a saquearam por várias vezes. Em resposta a estes ataques, os Espanhóis resolveram fortificar a cidade murando-a e construindo diversos fortes, de que é exemplo o Castillo de San Filipe ... read more
02. Muralha de Cartagena
03. Muralha de Cartagena
04. Pelas ruas de Cartagena

South America » Colombia » Cartagena August 26th 2005

Alter finishing the shamanic healing session it was full steam out of the jungle as fast as possible. We were both a bit fed up of it by then, and decided the quickest route would be down the Amazon and though the jungle into Colombia. So we said goodbye to our new friends from the trip and bought tickets for a float plane (hydroplane that takes off and land on water) that went direct to a town called Leticia, which is in the heart of Colombian jungle and borders both Peru and Brazil. It also avoided an uncomfortable boat trip of 8 hours in a Rapido. After dragging Claire into the jungle again I could hardly argue could I !? (Claire says: NO) Next morning we were waiting beside the river at this muddy riverbank that ... read more
view from our luxury flat
Cartagena old town at night (duh!)
Fresh as it gets...

South America » Colombia » Cartagena August 20th 2005

Despite now having nine mosquito bites on my right hand big toe alone (Not kidding, I´ll take a photo, and this toe is no rare exception), I´ve decided to spend six days trekking through the Colombian jungle to the Lost City. I´ve dumped all but a day of my time in Venezuela to do this. It should be good though. I won´t get back until, ooh, Saturday, so you´ll have to amuse yourselves for a while.... read more

South America » Colombia » Cartagena August 19th 2005

I´ve been a little slack in writing down things I´ve been doing since I got back from the jungle, sorry. Let me make some effort to fill you in now. I went to the Guaysamin art gallery, half of which was excellent, the other half may have been but it was also closed. That was in Quito. Then I flew to Bogota on a Sunday and went straight to that horrible hostel I mentioned, whose only advantage is that it is easy to meet people there. Everything was closed that day and the next because of Jesus ascending to heaven, apart from the Botero art gallery, where I had a very nice cappuchino. I played basketball with some gringoes against some locals and didn´t disgrace myself too badly though I quickly came to the realisation (,uch ... read more
Cartagena cathedral

South America » Colombia » Cartagena July 19th 2005

Cartagena is one of the most beautiful colonial cities I have seen. The old town is surrounded by a wall built by the Spanish to protect it from the many attacks from pirates. It was a main port to Spain during colonial times and goods from all over South America went through Cartagena, making it rich, but also a valuable target. Phil, Sjoerd, Paul, Eva and I left for Santa Marta after three days, Sjoerd was feeling much better, but Eva was giving signs of being sick, we were afraid that she had got whatever disease Paul had. ... read more

South America » Colombia » Cartagena July 16th 2005

I had dreamed of buying a sale boat and traveling the world with the power of the wind, going through beautiful landscapes and meeting lots of people everywhere I stopped. I was obviously a fool. Sailing is a lot harder than I thought. I had sailed before in Sweden, thanks to my good friend Erik, hope all is well, bro. But that was very different than the open ocean. First of all there was little wind most of the time and we had to keep the noisy engine running the whole way. Even with little wind there were lots of waves, especially when we were going around a storm that we could see several hours in advance. The waves were so large that I got seasick and vomited on the side of the boat. The boat ... read more
Hernando (the capitan) and me inside the boat, trying to prepare a meal
Greg steering
Trying to get confortable...




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