Wednesday, February 16, 2011 – Thursday, February 17, 2011
The last couple days have been a combination of sightseeing and relaxing.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
- Breakfast at 9:30
- Spent the morning on the streets of Cartagena on my own since Brie wasn’t feeling good. Beautiful city. Houses with balconies. Old stone doorways. Couple churches and plazas. Botero statue. Walk outside city walls. Colorfully dressed women selling fruit (want you to pay for pictures). Amazing artwork outside the modern art museum.
- Found a spa to get my legs waxed (wasn’t the best, but it will do)
- Lunch at a sushi place, excellent, they gave me a sample roll and I ordered the eel roll with plantain chips and avocado (very unique)
- Back at hostel at 2pm. Brie and I wanted to go to the mud volcano but it turns out we needed to book in advance and there weren’t any spots left
- Spent the afternoon reading the second book of the Hunger Games, Catching Fire
- Hang out at the hostel and meet a group of girls
- Seven of us end up going for dinner at 8pm, Brie, Erika (Frankfurt), Gladys (NY), sisters from Canada (Sylvie and Kate), and Anna (Germany) – sit outside and order the meal of the day
- Back to hostel
Thursday, February 17, 2011
- Day at Playa Blanca
- Breakfast
- Walk to port with Erika, Gladys and Anna to get the 9am boat, lots of people lining the streets trying to sell their boat company
- Run into the Australian girls from my flight
- Find a company but our boat is the last to leave at 9:30am, make a stop at some small village
- Ride is relatively smooth; arrive at Playa Blanca an hour later
- Walk along beach and find some chairs to sit in, bargain for 10,000 pesos for three
- Spent the morning reading the third book of the Hunger Games, Mockingbird; dip my legs the water a couple times
- Coconut seller passes by; buy a couple coconuts for lunch
- Another guy selling shrimp ceviche and lunch meals with fish, plantains, salad and rice
- Lunch at 1:15 at a table that belongs to the guy with the chairs
- Back to the chairs to relax
- Take a quick swimming break
- At 2:30pm we pack up to head back to the boats
- Boat leaves at 3:15pm
- Ride back to Cartagena is much more bumpy and wet, water spraying into the boat
- Back in town at 4:30pm, try get my laundry but it isn’t ready yet
- Go to hostel, then supermarket and juice shop for a strawberry pineapple smoothie
- Laundry place just before 6pm, laundry still isn’t back, end up sitting outside the laundry shop for an hour, reading (since I brought my kindle), waiting for my stuff, watch the sunset from the city walls
- Pizza place on the square at 8pm with Erika
- Finish Mockingbird, little girl staying in my room with her mom, kinda awkward
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