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For a South American Getaway, Try Cartagena

Jill

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I’m writing about my love for Colombia in GOOD this week. A bit:

The best way to enjoy Cartagena, though, is to put pleasure first. Meander. Buy unusual fruit from a street vendor. Get freshly caught fish on a paper plate from a dingy stand for a few dollars, or have a perfect slice of coconut pie at a white-tablecloth restaurant. Drink rum at a cafe in the Old City as the nighttime lighting makes the whole town glow gold, or mosey into any bar in Getsemani for an all-night live music dance party. If you’re looking to quit your life for a few months, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more enjoyable spot for relocation.

Cartagena is the most touristy city in Colombia, but well worth a visit. The rest of the country (or at least the parts I’ve been to) are also glorious. It’s one of my most-recommended travel destinations: Easy to get to from the United States, affordable, culturally rich, beautiful, and offers an incredible diversity of things to see and do. I need to go back.

6 thoughts on For a South American Getaway, Try Cartagena

  1. Hmm debating the internal metnal workings of quasi-infantile men who chase after younger women with little chance of success or a vacation in Colombia…

  2. I haven’t been to Cartagena, but San Telmo is a really, really smart part of the overall Buenos Aires antiquing scene and especially the large independent shop scene.

  5. I spent a month in Colombia last summer. I loved it. The mountains are lush and beautiful, the beaches are stunning (go to Old Providence Island), and the people are lovely and friendly!

  6. Colombia is the best country I’ve ever been to (don’t tell the others). Taganga is also very fun (lazy fishing village North of Cartagena, used to be centre of drug trade, isn’t anymore), and I also really love big, bad Bogotá – but that probably isn’t most peoples’ idea of a ‘holiday’ per se. But the night life is UN-REAL, so if you’re looking for a $10 bottomless cup of rum, being danced around by old gentlemen so graceful and adept they make it look like YOU are and the biggest gay bar in South America, look no further… <3 !!!

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