Colombia: Bogotá & Cartagena
On Sunday the 11th of June it was finally time for part two of my travel journey. In the morning I took a plane to Madrid (where I spent some time) and from there I took my second flight to Bogotá, Colombia on Monday. After a ten hour flight, I arrived in Colombia’s capital at 6PM. The flight was quite okay, since I sat at the emergency exit where I had a lot of space for my super long legs 😉.
On my first full day in Bogotá, I visited mount Monserrate and spent the afternoon in La Candelaria, Bogotá’s most famous neighborhood. Before my trip, I watched the Netflix series ‘Street food: Latin America’. There’s one episode about Bogotá and its Perseverancia Market. Of course, being a foodie I had to visit this market while I was here. So that’s what I did on my second day. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring cash money so I couldn’t buy anything. Typical me. After my short visit, it was time to pack my bags at the hostel and go to the airport to catch my plane to Cartagena to meet Barbara.
After a one hour flight I arrived in Cartagena. I immediately noticed how hot it was over here. What a difference with chilly Bogotá! A short taxi ride later it was finally time to meet Barbara at our hostel. I was super happy to see her again after a few months! Since she had arrived two days before me in the city, she took me for a stroll in the city center. We ended our evening at Mama’s Pizza, where we had a pizza at their rooftop. The next day we had something very exited planned: a visit to the hairdresser for both of us. Barbara needed to fix her haircut she had had a few days before and I wanted a keratin treatment. After spending the whole morning at the hairdresser, in the afternoon it was time to take some pictures in Cartagena’s colourful streets. After all, we had to show off our new haircut! In the evening we made wraps in our hostel’s open kitchen by the pool and had a drink at the bar.
Friday we decided to start the day with a free walking tour, but dropped out after half an hour (Sorry guide Arthur!) to explore the city further on our own. In the evening we went to the city walls of Cartagena (Las Murallas) for a long walk. Unfortunately, it rained quite a lot and so we didn’t walk around the whole city.
Saturday was our last full day in Cartagena and probably my favourite day this far! While walking the streets, we suddenly heard someone singing the first notes of Justin Bieber’s song ‘Baby’. Triggered by this voice, we replied with the lyrics ‘You know you love me, I know you care’ and then something really cool happened. The singer and his friend joined us and we started singing all together. As it was a movie scene we were in, suddenly the singer’s friend brought a guitar and they played ‘Despacito’. It looked as if we had our own private concert in beautiful Cartagena. We said goodbye to the city with a drink at the rooftop of Hotel Sophia.
I can already tell I love Colombia!
