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 Colombia Dec 2017 Cartagena Part 2, Colombia Dec 2017 Next part of Cartagena to explore was the market; so we took a taxi to Mercado Bazuto the ride cost us $5 from Bocagrande. Most taxi or uber rides in Cartagena cost us between $2.80 and $5 one…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia Dec 2017 Cartagena Part 1, Colombia Dec 2017 After a short business trip; we decided to explore Cartagena, Colombia, since we had liked Cali and Medellin earlier. We flew to Cartagena via Miami, and when the plane landed in Cartagena, the people in the plane started…
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