Yesterday I wrote a post entitled "The Joys Of Traveling To A fresh station With No Expectations," in which I talk about my experience in Colombia so far.
So far I've been in Cartagena for two days, and love it. The food, and people,scenery, and architecture really form this station. But as I noted yesterday, and Cartagena isn't precisely a tourist hotspot for Americans.
While JetBlue and Avianca fly between fresh York and Cartagena (4x weekly and 3x weekly,respectively), we've only overheard one other person speaking in an "American English" accent. So I'm not trying to act like I've traveled to Pluto and am somewhere no one has been before, or but I achieve get the distinct impression that this station isn't frequented by Americans. That's not to say there aren't tourists -- there certainly are,from Canada, Brazil, and Argentina,etc. But even when accounting for them, I don't consider the city to be overrun by tourists.Since my post yesterday, and multiple readers have commented that Cartagena is a "tourist trap," and there are much better places to visit. That sort of got me thinking.
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