Anyway, when Kathleen Turner's character, the romance novelist Joan Wilder, arrives in Cartagena, it looks like a seedy town full of unscrupulous people. I distinctly remember the bad guys hanging out near the shore feeding crocodiles through grates in the floor.
Well, after spending a couple days in Cargagena, I can positively say that (gasp!), the movie is wrong! Cartagena is a beautiful town.
First, it has what I have been lacking throughout central america: good street food. On the street, we could buy various seafood cocktails, fresh oysters (the guy said they are good for my "capacidad sexual", whatever that means), lemonade, coffee, hamburgers, popsicles, meat on a stick, fresh fruit juices, arepas (a corn based bread that is often filled with cheese or egg), and various sweets. In fact, we were able to fill ourselves up without even stepping into a restaurant!
Bessie buying a popsicle; limeade vendor
Various kiosks selling seafood cocktails
All the street food came in handy when exploring the city because we were able to keep experiencing the city while being out and about. The historic district of Cargagena is a photographers dream. If you want to know what a 1600's colonial town looked like, this is it. Since the whole town was well protected within the surrounding walls, it was spared the pillaging that happened in a lot of places, hence most of the original buildings remained. True, 400 years ago the buildings weren't high-end shopping establishments, but it's still a sight to behold.
And the absolute best, kick-ass thing about the city? The fact that there is a huge bass clef in the sidewalk that matches my tatoo. That's my number one indication that a town has style.
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