I’m not what prompted us to spend a week in Cartagena – I
suppose in part it was a recovery from the boat experience, and our
first hotel with air conditioning in quite some time. The heat was
intense, but we slept well and caught up on a lot of missed rest in
Panama & on the boat.
(mud volcano!)
It was almost a relief when we decided to depart and booked a
flight straight to Armenia via Bogota which, while we would almost
certainly miss out on visiting the high altitude capital city, meant
we cut out at least 30 hours of bus riding and headed straight for
our first break from the tropics in a couple of months. Given our
Southern trajectory, it made sense.
