Cartagena (continued) Our last day in Colombia was on the beach. We wanted to dip into the Caribbean before going home to our landlocked Colorado. It took a while to find the right tour. In the end, out of all available beach trips, we chose to go to Playa Blanca. It was for a day […]
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Castillo San Felipe de Barajas This post is going to be mostly photos and little text. Cartagena is so colorful that I wanted to take a picture of every street in its arts district Getsemani. These photos got to be posted somewhere. Rest assured that I have a lot more pictures but I have to
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Old town of Cartagena This fortress sits on top of the Hill of San Lázaro outside of the Walled town of Cartagena. The Spanish built it in the 1600s to protect the city after it was occupied and looted by Sir Francis Drake. The Castillo was cleverly designed. Its complex consists of several individual forts
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Cartagena We spent our first full day in Cartagena exploring the old town. The Lonely Planet lists the Palace of inquisition as a top city attraction. So we went to it first. The museum name suggests that its visitors should expect to see torture equipment and other tools that we are used to associate with
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Denver to Colombia The bus to the airport smelled of disinfecting wipes. A few passengers wore face masks and looked extra cautious; others behaved as usual. I wrapped a thin cotton scarf around my lower face not wanting to appear panic-stricken and at the same time, hoping that it would provide some protection. We had
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It was the second half of February and 4 months since I returned home from my 2019 Europe-Asia-Europe trip. The weather in Colorado was snowy with temperatures below freezing, the kind that makes me to hole up at home because I am a cold blooded creature and need warmth to survive. My job as a
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In the Amazon jungles The last day of our vacation was in Lima. It was morning when we got there. This time, we had no bad experience leaving the airport (see the post Tumbes). At first, we tried to do usual sightseeing but the polluted air of the Peruvian capital made it difficult to enjoy.
From the Andes to the Amazon jungles On the following day, we got up at 5 am. Taking a cold shower in the jungle was easy. The temperature there stays over 30º C (90º F) all day long and humidity is 90%. Absence of electricity presented a problem for my husband who had an electric
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Lake Titicaca After another night in chilly conditions in Puno and almost all day on the bus, we were back to Cusco. It was time to see something completely different and we bought air tickets to Puerto Maldonado, a city in the Amazon forest. The flight was only half an hour, but what a drastic
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Puno Visiting Lake Titicaca was a dream came true. The syllables ‘Ti·ti·ca·ca’ of its exotic name sounded like a song when I was a child. I knew that the lake was somewhere deep in the Andes, far from my native Russia, and I had no hopes to see it one day. Lake Titicaca is the
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