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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 7 feb 2018, 22:01
- 🌙 24 °C
- Altitud: 59 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla El Prado 11.00411, -74.8069811°0’15” N 74°48’25” W
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Día 131
Start of the party time
7 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Back at the hostel, I was preparing to sleep when Brian our 24 year old owner of the hostel came over and offered to take me along with the rest of the people at the hostel to a club where they were having the carnival pre-party. We packed ourselves in his car and went to the Michaelangelo club. It was a fun night out. There were people wearing costumes and dancing to the loud beats of the latino music. I also got introduced to all the inmates of the hostel while we danced together. We returned back at 1 am. So much for an early night 😁😁Leer más
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Viajero Your camera seems to be behaving as if it had few pegs & all looking hazy😜😜
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The Craze for Travelling 🤣🤣🤣
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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 11 feb 2018, 12:44
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Altitud: 15 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla La Concepción 11.01167, -74.7933311°0’42” N 74°47’36” W
Día 135
The Sunday Parade
11 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Richer from the experience of the day before, we had a clear plan in mind for the day. We started off earlier around 11 am as planned. This day we decided to go further up on Via 40, directly where the palcos were. There were vendors selling caps, foams etc on the street side. We entered the public area and started going from one palco to another exposing ourselves to various touts so we could pitch them against each other. We had also planned our location well. We wanted to be nearer the start of the parade since the day before when we were in the middle of the Via 40,we had realized that a lot of groups would get tired dancing in the searing sun by the time they reached our seats. But, we didn't want to be right at the start since most groups would have be trying to get organized in their dances etc.
Keeping that in mind, we marked 3-4 palcos where we would try and get our tickets and this day we decided to get into the palcos since they afforded a better view of the parade.
Keeping all these factors in mind, we managed to pitch a few touts against each other and negotiate the price down from 60000 COP to 25000 COP per person in one of the palcos right in the front row at a nice elevated position above the Via 40 road. Our palco even had a live band that kept is entertained till the parade started. They even gave us free coffee, caps, bags and some snacks being sponsored by a local pub. We were extremely happy with the deal and our place and the live band was quite useful since the parade started at 2:30 pm about 1.5 hours later than scheduled 😎Leer más
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Viajero Lucky ,you could bargain a very prime location at a very low cost........that is called a Sindhi bargainer ......
28/3/18Responder
The Craze for Travelling Ha ha ha
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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 9 feb 2018, 16:19
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitud: 25 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.98167, -74.7783310°58’54” N 74°46’42” W
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Día 133
Carnival ready
9 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After San Nicolas, I started walking E-W past more street shops and kiosks. I even tried the Churros being made fresh on one of the street side handcart.
A churro is a fried-dough pastry—predominantly choux—based snack. Churros are traditional in Spain and Portugal - from where they originate - as well as the Philippines and Ibero-America.
There were fruit vendors, flower vendors and I even managed to find a hats wholesaler/manufacturer. I managed to bargain a Colombian hat for 10000 COP. The normal selling price was 30000 COP and none of the sellers I had tried bargaining with earlier had gone below 20000 COP so I was quite pleased.
Now, I was ready for the carnival 😁😁😁Leer más
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Viajero You have tasted umpteen types of food items ,now is the time to try your hand at home. The G'pigs will be there with you soon.😀
22/3/18Responder
Viajero Is it salty or dipped in sugar syrup ?
22/3/18Responder
Viajero Sala mein to Sahab bun gaya..............🎼🎼🎼🎤🎤
22/3/18Responder
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Viajero Jason & Ricky's Gaycation
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- 4 may 2018, 12:30
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitud: 38 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.98833, -74.7910°59’18” N 74°47’24” W
Día 279
Brief Visit to Barranquilla
4 de mayo de 2018, Colombia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
While we were in Cartagena, we decided to take a day trip to Barranquilla, about 115 kilometres away. The bus was small and while there were no live chickens on-board, we were cramped in the bus as if we were chickens or sardines. With no leg room for two tall gringos, we spent the next three hours trying to get comfortable and avert deep vein thrombosis.

Barranquilla is the largest city in the northern Caribbean coast of Colombia, but it's main claim to fame is that it is home to Sofía Vergara and Shakira (and our friend Steph). Just prior to our visit, Sofía Vergara had returned home causing a media sensation. We went in search of Shakira but could only find buses promoting the city's love for the singer. A bit like our ongoing search for the ever-allusive sloth, we left the city without catching sight of Sofía or Shakira (and Steph exited a long-time ago).

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Well, I'm glad my stories about going to the same high school as Sofia and the same driving school as Shakira checked out! Steph
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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 9 feb 2018, 19:26
- 🌙 26 °C
- Altitud: 15 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.98833, -74.7816710°59’18” N 74°46’54” W
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Día 133
Baila la Calle - Noche de Orquestas
9 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ 🌙 26 °C
Dance on the Street (Night of the Orchestra)
It is a concert featuring many national and international musical ensembles, and was created in 1969. In this festival, the participating musical ensembles compete for the coveted award called Congo De Oro in different categories. As a rule, each musical ensembles should perform three songs and at least one of them should be dedicated, in their content, to the city of Barranquilla.

When I reached near the Carrera 50, I found out that they had blocked off all the entrances to the street except one and that was bang opposite to where I was. It took me about 20 min to get to the entrance and of course the entry was free 😉
The whole street was like a long rectangular arena, packed with stalls and people. There were people dressed up for the carnival, dancing to the music being played by the stalls.Leer más
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Viajero Directionless movement, where are they heading to?
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Viajero Where are Mario & Haristo?
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The Craze for Travelling Just randomly dancing and walking to the various party kiosks.
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The Craze for Travelling They were back at their hotel.
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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 9 feb 2018, 21:30
- 🌙 25 °C
- Altitud: 15 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.98833, -74.7816710°59’18” N 74°46’54” W
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Día 133
The kiosk parties
9 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
After seeing the competition for a few hours, we moved away from the stage to the other parties happening all across street at the kiosks. People were enjoying the food, the drinks and dancing to the peppy music being played. Around 10 pm, we left the place and started walking back to our hostel. The whole town seemed to be out having fun. There were dance parties in various houses with people dancing on the streets. There were kids playing football on streets. It was a totally festive atmosphere.Leer más
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Viajero As if all the prisoners have been let free & they donot know how to go about?
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The Craze for Travelling ha ha ha
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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 9 feb 2018, 19:45
- 🌙 26 °C
- Altitud: 11 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.98833, -74.7810°59’18” N 74°46’48” W
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Día 133
The competition
9 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ 🌙 26 °C
At one end of the blocked street of Carrera 50, was the stage where the competition was taking place. There were groups competing in different categories. There was live singing in different genres and there were some groups with fantastic dancing troupes performing live on their songs. Hristo and Maria too joined after a while. It was a fun filled event.Leer más
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Viajero How you all could trace each other in such a crowded big area?was it your hat/ ..........laal kaccha.?
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Viajero Free entry, enchanting dancing & vantage position near the stage,...........how you could slip to front of stage?
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The Craze for Travelling Ha ha ha.. laal gulab in the left pocket ;)
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The Craze for Travelling There was place to go through to the front ;)
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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 9 feb 2018, 16:47
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitud: 15 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.97833, -74.7766710°58’42” N 74°46’36” W
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Día 133
To San Roque church
9 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
From the market, I walked N-S again towards the San Roque church. This place had the feel of a typical street market in any old Indian town. There were streets each catering to a different item.. there was a bicycle street, an electronic and electricals street, shoes, clothes, everything being sold by street vendors.
San Roque was a beautiful gothic church with big open spaces and plazas around.Leer más
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Viajero So you got the flavour of your country but where was the drug market😎😎😷😷🤐🤐
22/3/18Responder
The Craze for Travelling Ha ha ha.. I don't think that would be this open 😉
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Viajero Beyond mojitos, rum and salsa
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- 2 mar 2019
- ☀️ 30 °C
- Altitud: 34 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.989656, -74.78395110°59’23” N 74°47’2” W
Día 191
13.1 Carnival
2 de marzo de 2019, Colombia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
No time to relax; on the same day of arrival in Cartagena we spontaneously and immediately (after waiting 3 h for the entry stamp) took a Uber to the bus terminal from which we rode a bus to Barranquilla, a dangerous, dirty, stinking, ugly piece of asphalt and concrete that somehow managed to host the second biggest carnival in the world! So they claim.

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Viajero And you all ‚disguised‘ !
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The Craze for Travelling The South American Odyssey
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- 9 feb 2018, 13:47
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitud: 19 m
- Colombia Departamento del Atlántico Barranquilla Centro Caño de Los Tramposos 10.99, -74.7833310°59’24” N 74°46’60” W
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Día 133
Barrio Abajo
9 de febrero de 2018, Colombia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
This day also, we didn't have anything planned during the day. The only event Baila la Calle (Dancing on the Street) was starting at 7 in the evening. Maria and Hristo planned to stay a bit longer at the hotel in the morning. They needed to fix Maria's return ticket to London. She had been forced to buy a return ticket when she was about to board the flight to Santiago on her way from UK. The Argentina Aerolíneas had given her no other option and had wanted her to book a return ticket while still in Madrid. This, despite the fact that she was not even stopping in Argentina and had showed them her onward journey to Santiago, Chile. She had bought a return ticket from Santiago to London and had managed to come. We had tried to get it canceled and get a refund a couple of times during the trip but it had not worked out. Now, with the return in a few days, they had to get it canceled and get a refund. I decided to go to the Barrio Abajo which we had not been able to reach the day before and do some shopping for the carnival while they decided to fix the tickets and join me later during the day.
On the way, I made a deviation and passed through the venue for the night's program just to get an idea about the entrances and the fees, so as not to repeat the previous day's mistake 😉 During the day, the preparation for the night were ongoing. The stalls were being built and barricades being erected. The buntings and streamers gave it a festive look, just the people were missing. Strangely, none of the volunteers helping out in the preparation had a clue how many entrances there will be and how much would be the cost 🤤🤤 Most did say that they most probably, it would be a free entrance. In any case, I walked from one end to the other to get an idea how big the area was amd where all the entrances could be.Leer más
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Viajero You picked up the cue very fast & tried all your skills to find the free entrance ,got it.....???
22/3/18Responder
The Craze for Travelling 😁😁 not at this point of time but later in the evening I did 😉
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