This post is part of a series called Cartagena Dec 2021 Santa Marta, Colombia, Dec 2021 After Valle de Cocora, we flew back to northwestern Colombia, to Santa Marta. Santa Marta is a port city on the Caribbean Sea coast, about 226kms east of Cartagena. Founded on July 29, 1525, by the Spanish conqueror Rodrigo…
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This post is part of a series called Cartagena Dec 2021 After Cartagena, we flew into central Colombia, to the highland area where coffee is grown. We flew into the city of Pereira, and then drove to the town of Manizales, where we had booked at the Mirador Finca Morrogacho Majid B&B, just outside the…
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This post is part of a series called Cartagena Dec 2021 After Puerto Rico, we decided to check out Colombia once again, since we had enjoyed it so much the previous 2 times. Plan was to visit more places in Colombia this time. So, in December 2021, we flew to Cartagena where we had been…
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This post is part of a series called Puerto Rico Nov 2021 Puerto Rico, Nov 2021 After Greece, we visited Puerto Rico in Nov 2021. Covid restrictions were still present in many parts of the world; and since Puerto Rico is a US territory, we were not restricted in traveling over the seas to Puerto…
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This post is part of a series called Greece 2021 From Thessaloniki, we drove south to the Mt Olympus area. First stop was the town of Litochoro at the foot of Mt Olympus that we wanted to visit. We had booked the night before to stay at the Bayiri Petit Pension; which was a cute…
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