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After my wrong-bus disaster leaving Cartagena I arrived in Santa Marta at nearly 11pm and asked the taxi driver to take me to the cheapest place listed in the Lonely Planet, just hoping that they would have a bed for me, since I had not made a reservation. I was out of luck but they were very...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on January 7, 2010 from Santa Marta, Colombia
from the travel blog: Michael's Lonely post-Honeymoon

A Birthday in Cartagena

Immediately after New Year is Lucy's birthday. Her intention had been to visit the nearby '''Tutomo''', ''el Volcan de Lodo'' for her birthday, but this would have meant getting up quite early on her birthday, and since she didn't emerge from their room at all on New Year's Day this was clearly...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on January 6, 2010 from Cartagena, Colombia
from the travel blog: Michael's Lonely post-Honeymoon

New Year in Cartagena

The apartment we moved to on Boxing Day was a bit closer to the centre of town, but essentially it was still in Bocagrande, which meant that the beaches were still easy walking distance, but I hoped we might be able to spend some time in the old town, which includes a cheaper backpacker...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on January 1, 2010 from Cartagena, Colombia
from the travel blog: Michael's Lonely post-Honeymoon

Christmas in Cartagena

When I arrived at the apartment in Cartagena everyone was a bit subdued because they'd had a big night the night before. Also, Zdenek, Lucy, Natasha, and Silvie, who I was expecting to be there, had been joined by a further two people, to reduce costs they explained: two young Swedish guys,...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on December 25, 2009 from Cartagena, Colombia
from the travel blog: Michael's Lonely post-Honeymoon

Last Leg

The minibus from '''Ipiales''' to '''Cali''' seemed to be going at a decent speed and I was sure we'd get to Cali at a sensible time, not the pessimistic 4am the ticket salesman had told me. But then there was a longish break for food. The prices were reassuringly low, which was one of the many...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on December 23, 2009 from Cali, Colombia
from the travel blog: Michael's Lonely post-Honeymoon

Good Start in Colombia

The bus from Quito arrived on time and getting stamped out of Ecuador was quick and easy; actually they print on your passport using a dotmatrix printer, rather than stamping, but it was trouble-free. Then I walked over the river to the Colombian side where there was a queue I estimated would...

permalink written by  The Happy Couple on December 22, 2009 from Ipiales, Colombia
from the travel blog: Michael's Lonely post-Honeymoon

Salsa Capital

We came to Cali in the morning and started with an argument with the taxi drivers so we didn’t take a taxi from the normal taxi stand since we were sure they was ripping us of so instead we went out and stopped a taxi at the street and in that way we got it for almost half the price. We got to...

permalink written by  Steffi & Chris on December 19, 2009 from Cali, Colombia
from the travel blog: 212 days

Medellin

Medellin is the only city in Colombia that has a ”subway”. It is also the hometown of the infamous Pablo Escobar, not that he has left any kind of mark on the city. Our visit to Medellin started very early in the morning and the first thing we did was going to our hostel. It was nice and cheap...

permalink written by  Steffi & Chris on December 16, 2009 from Medellin, Colombia
from the travel blog: 212 days

Cartagena

We came to Cartagena in the late afternoon after a 4h minibus ride that went without incident. When we came there we had arranged a Tahitian Divemaster to host us called Erv. So as soon as we got off the bus we just took a taxi and went straight there. It turned out that she was living...

permalink written by  Steffi & Chris on December 12, 2009 from Cartagena, Colombia
from the travel blog: 212 days

Santa Marta

We arrived in Santa Marta after about 6 hours crossing the border to Colombia. This was probably the most nervous I have been during a border crossing, because we had heard a lot about how dangerous it was and that it could take forever getting your stamps and also that there were similar...

permalink written by  Steffi & Chris on December 8, 2009 from Taganga, Colombia
from the travel blog: 212 days

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