Nos vemos Cartagena

Just left Cartagena heading to a smaller city up the coast, Santa Marta..

The last couple days have been great..

I've just been hanging out with my two Brazilian buddies, Felipe and Rafael, and my Uruguayan friend Pupi.

We went up and toured the castle fortress type thing on top of a hill overlooking the entire city. Got some really good pictures. They were all about getting really goofy-ass pictures of the four of us. Got some crowds watching and laughing at us here and there..

I watched the sunset at a really cool bar which is located actually on top of the wall, almost every night.. The bar charges like $3 a beer, so I just hang out next to the joint and buy a beer or two from my homies pushing around beer carts for like $.75..

At night we usually start out hanging at the hostel meeting people, then go out to dance at a club around midnight with everyone.

Clubs in South America are awesome. They play a lot of raggaeton, salsa, and Latin pop. They're so different than clubs in the states, SO much better. First of all, you can get in wearing sandals shorts an whatever else you want. You don't need to wear your finest silk shirt or designer jeans to fit in. Second of all, everyone is dancing and it's very crowded, but you will NEVER have someone pushing you out of the way in order to walk through. A polite tap on the shoulder is the norm down here. Respect, even/especially to strangers, is a huge part of this culture.

In Australia if you're in a crowded bar/club, you're guaranteed to get shoved into at least a handful of times by some drunkass rugby player.

I like it much better the way it is down here.

On Sunday, I went to the only place in Cartagena that was airing the Bears/packers game, the Hard Rock Cafe. I went alone for the start of the game, and Pupi ended up meeting me there and cheering on the bears for most of the game. The result wasn't what I wanted, in fact it was an awful game to watch, but it didnt really bother me. I'm in Colombia after all.

Anyways tomorrow I go to Playa Los Angeles. Heard the beaches are sweet!

I'll try to get pictures up sometime soon.

Until then, chau chau!







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