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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cartagena de Indias
We arrived in Cartagena 2 days ago, at the north-west coast of Colombia. Cartagena is one of the top tourist destinations of this country, and a world heritage site. We’re staying in Hotel Casa del Curato in San Diego (some pictures on their website), a residential area full of colourful colonial buildings, 400-year old churches, and long narrow cobbled streets. It’s gorgeous here, very romantic, and thus a pretty good honeymoon destination.
And there is a restaurant further down the street that specializes in vegetarian food ("TorreLuna"). We tried it out yesterday, with great results. Such a welcome change!
The only down side is that (as in every touristic area) the prices are high; every passing taxi honks at us looking for a fare, and it seems like everybody tries to sell us something. We haven’t been to the beach yet but apparently that’s even worse there. No quiet walks… Oh well.
Today and tomorrow we’ll continue exploring, and then we’ll take an overnight bus to Bucaramanga. We’re hoping the weather will be a bit better there. It’s nice and warm here (28 °C), but with more rain than supposed to be.
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Fijn dat het allemaal zo goed gaat!
Blijf volop genieten, vooral van de romantische plekjes !!!!!Wij genieten met jullie mee !
Liefs mama.