the most beautiful cities of Colombia - E

On our jorney we visited 

Cartagena, it is said to be the most beautiful city of Colombia.

Stadtplan Cartagena

As you can see on the map, the old center of the town is situated  well strategically on a promontory. The old fortification is still there, small streets with wonderful houses, well kept, a lot of balcony plants that let you forget you are in a narrow town. 

Popayan, is said to be the second most beautiful city of Colombia.

To see both cities on a trip it was necessary to book a flight because of the distance. You can take the bus too, but you really need a lot of time and we did not want to invest that amount of time.

If you can shorten your backage to 6 kg or less the flight is not so expensive. There exists a cheap airline in Colombia with very low prices. Ideal for people who can give up the luxury of food and backage on a flight.

The center of Popayan surprises with white houses and black windows, doors and balconies. Narrow streets, parks, everything full of life.

There are only few streets without traffic, that is sometimes unconfortable in the narrwo streets. On the other hand hotels at all prices is a big plus.

In the park there are always events for free.

Taganga - E

TAGANGA

To reach Taganga you will need to arrive in Santa Marta, the big city and then you will travel by bus or car for 40 minutes, then you will arrive in Taganga. Taganga is a neighborhood of Santa Marta.

In Santa Marta you can take a bus from the market and  you will arrive in Taganga, it is one of the neighbouring towns of Santa Marta and it has a village ambience.

From here you can organize tours: diving, tramping and other activities. Tairona park is very popular and worth a visit.

The village has only a main street where you can find restaurants, tourism agencies and on the street lot of handycrafts.

there are different possibilities of where you can stay, small hotels, hostels for backpackers, luxury hotels, camping sites or if you enjoy sleeping under the stars you can hire a hammock and still be able to use the bathroom and the kitchen facilities,  We got a cheap hostel with a bathroom a fan and the possibility to use the kitchen.

In Taganga you can find people from all over the world at any time, for this reason you won’t have problems communicating because there will be a pot pouri of languages being spoken.

Night time in Taganga is very interesting, there are bars and restaurants with shows and street artists thoughout the whole week.