Erin & Regan's South American Adventure
Cartagena, Castillo de San Felipe and the Inquisition!
Hola,
We arrived in Cartagena at night time and took a taxi to the popular hostal "Vienna" (in Getsemani, an area within the old walled part of the city), where they have everything a backpacker needs.
Unfortunately for us they were lacking the one thing we really needed, beds for the night. Luckily they were really helpful, they even called a nearby hostal (Hotel Familiar) for us and arranged a room.
The next day we walked to the nearby Castillo de San Felipe, a massive fortress which is the largest Spanish fortress built in the Americas.
It has extensive sloping tunnels within, including one which could have been used to escape a siege.
The flag atop the fortress is simply huge.
One of the guard posts on the corner of the fortress.
Erin surfing on a canon.
A view of the city from the fortress.
The walls are quite impressive.
A nice "shot" at the high rise apartments and CBD.
Erin just had to buy this enormous red necklace made from... you´ll never guess... a vegetable, called Tagua AKA vegetable ivory.
The grass area surrounding the fortress looked kinda cool with its palms and canons.
