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Remembering the long wait we had in Cartagena when we arrived in Colombia in 2025, we were now waiting there again - this time to load the car back on a ship to get it sent to Panama. However, we were now more experienced, and knew where to stay to be conveniently close to the port. There are lots of other parts of Cartagena, but to be safe from floodings with heavy rain, tourist traffic and whatever other event that could stop us, we stayed again in Manga. We were 8 minute

The first place in Colombia, on this second part of our stay there, was Cúcuta, the border city where we entered from Venezuela.  We stayed a couple of nights just to sleep and recover a bit from the stress of the border crossing.  We did a city walk on our own, and enjoyed the scenery and the fact that in Colombia you get vegetables for breakfast.  Good ones!  From Cúcuta we booked the car shipment from Cartagena to Panama, and we now had about a week to make our way and be

From Cali we only had one stretch left south, driving to Ipiales which is the last place on the Colombian side of the Rumichaca bridge. ...

The last of the big cities was Cali. We wanted to see it, even if there were many comments about the general safety of Colombia. ...

Carrying on south, our next stay was Bogotá. This capital city has a lot of stories around it, and quite recently yet another political...

The next place for us to visit was Medellín. We felt we knew it well from watching every single episode of Narcos, and the entry didn't...

The drive from Cartagena to Barranquilla was enjoyable, probably even more so as we had been static for a while. We thought we were...

Finally we got the car back, and we are ready to move on from Cartagena. The time to ship a car from Panama to Colombia varies between 2...

At last, late evening 6 June the ship turned up at Cartagena. We were told that we were to be without the car for a minimum of 14 days,...

We are still waiting for the car! First it was going to arrive 28 May, and then it changed to 5 June. We can only wait... Our next...

Cartagena is no doubt a very pretty place! The old part, what the locals call "dentro", is inside a very old city wall, going all around....