We pop out of the canal and we're suddenly in the Caribbean! ... and it's still really hot... Mom & Dad choose to stay near the ship so John & I get another day of 'adventure'. However, there's only so much adventure you can really have on a bus tour full of 60+'s...
To this day, I can't hear 'Cartagena' and NOT think of the movie 'Romancing the Stone'. We didn't see anything at all that looked like it did in the movie but, then again, it was filmed 25-30 years ago so things were bound to change, right?
Here's some shots of what we did see...
Cartagena from the La Popa monastery on the hill
Historical Military Fortress
Colonial Cartagena
Colonial Cartagena
Colonial building La Popa Monastery on the hill
Colonial Clock tower Old jail cells that are now
used as tourist shops
The modern part of the city - built late 1980's
(part of the post-Romancing the Stone boom perhaps?)
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