February 8, 2017
Cartagena is the seaside town knows for its brightly colored Spanish style buildings. Its fame also comes with floods of tourists. There are great restaurants and places for after dinner drinks. My favorites were Cucine de Pepin and Bazurto Social Club.
Coming to Cartagena, I assumed there would be lovely beaches. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Most of the beaches in northeastern Colombia are empty because you can’t go in the water due to the extremely strong riptides. The few places that you can get in the water, such as Playa Blanca, are so overcrowded that they’re hard to enjoy.
For something unusual, we took an afternoon trip to the mud volcano. It was an odd experience sitting in a room of mud with 40 other people. I couldn’t stop laugh and how ridiculous it felt to be sitting in mud that was the consistency of pudding.
The city is surrounded by a wall that was built by the Spanish for protection. It’s a nice place to sit and watch sunset if you don’t mind the traffic on the road in between the wall and the ocean.
