Cartagena, Colombia

Who woulda think we would have liked Cartagena, Colombia so much! Our first foray into South America and last port before we hit Fort Lauderdale after 3 days at sea.

Cartagena was (of course) colonized by the Spanish, a couple dozen years after Columbus. Because it's a port city facing the Atlantic it was a very popular pirate spot after the Spanish started pulling the gold out (Henry Morgan and Francis Drake, who were both working on the sly for Queen Elizabeth I).

All that pirating made Cartagena have to develop a giant wall fortification over the course of 400 years, and it's one of the longest lasting and best preserved walls in the world. These walls surround the beautiful old city of Getsemaní, which has lots of colorful buildings) and colonial architecture elsewhere nearby.

Because Greg has some serious plantar fascitis going we couldn't walk around so we did the hop-on/hop-off, but we both would have loved to have walked around despite the incredibly oppressive humidity. At least it hasn't rained on us! They keep saying "100% chance" of rain and we keep getting lucky.

Loved using my Spanish again.
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