Monday in Cartagena, Columbia

Here is the view coming into Cartagena

We had breakfast in the Island’s Cafe before meeting our tour bus at 8:30am.

 

One of the highlights of Cartagena is Fort San Felipe.  Here it is from the street side.

 

Our tour did not allow time to climb up to the Fort itself.  There were lots of women on the street in native costume with bowls of fruit on their heads trying to get you to pay to get your picture taken with them.  I got a picture of Jim and Bette telling her no.

   

Part of our tour was for shopping.  Here are the shops in the old dungeon.  Each cell has been converted into a shop.

 

These three young men “statues” each got a dollar from me to take their picture.

 

Our next stop was the Academy of History in The Old City.  This is a model of what it looks like.  It was used during the Spanish Inquisition for torturing non-Christians.

  

Some of their techniques looked awful.

Here is Gene checking out some of the cannons.

 

Here is the clock tower plaza.

At our next shopping stop we found one of the men with a sloth.  We paid him to take a picture of me with the sloth.  It was very docile.

Going back to the ship we got a picture of the fort from the water side.

We also got a picture of  La Popa Monastery which was a long way away and high on a hill.

We came back to the room to nap and shower before dinner.

The show last night was singer, Jack Walker, who had an amazing voice.