After working for school for a week–I was making a resume of the course- Sebastian, Marie and I took a flight to Cartagena. The bus trip to Bogota was 4 hours and the flight took 1,5 hours. Cartagena is a very touristic city in the north, at the Caraibic sea. I was very curious to see the city, as every Colombian had said it was beautiful. You have different parts of Cartagena; the new part with flats everywhere next to the beach, and the old part, surrounded by a wall. In my course of restauration I learnt that restauration isn’t really integrated in the Colombian culture and that the major of Cartagena wanted to destroy the whole wall to make room for more buildings! Luckily only a small part got destroyed.
Because we were exhausted from our trip, we spent the day on the beach. There were so many vendors; every 5 of 10 minutes thay passed! A popular profession was massaging. Most of the women just rubbed your back..
The afternoon of the second day we went to see the beautiful colourful old town. In the old part, every house has a different colour and a lot of them have pittoresque balcony’s that often hang over the sidewalks.
Most people say it’s at its prettiest at night. Pretty it is, but even at night it’s hot! One walks around at night time with shorts and t-shirt and still transpirates!
After our dinner we headed back home for yet another shower and then prepared us for a night out. We went with our new friends- an Argentine and a Belgian girl who were married- and some of their Colombian friends.
Day three we went to Playa Blanca, White Beach, where we met a nice Spanish girl and an English couple who accompanied us. Because it was a Carraibic island, we decided we had to go there. It was absolutely breathtaking! White beaches –as the name says- crystal blue water and coconut trees… Sigh…
PS We lost the pictures taken in Cartagena but Marta, our new Spanish friend, will sent us hers when she gets back to Spain. I'll probably upload the photo's then!
