The Old City (the part of Cartagena where all the tourists go) is another historical site, founded in 1533 and largely preserved. It's surrounded by murallas, giant walls built to keep out pirates. They still have cannons mounted on them which you can actually climb on. I was on top of one when I took this picture of the street.
The architecture is distinctly colonial but in a very different style from Villa De Leyva. It's more grandiose, probably because it was a major port and commercial center. The downside is it's also swelteringly hot. Luckily it's the rainy season, apparently when there isn't cloudcover from all the rain it's around 100 degrees every day.
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Where are you going next? Are coming home via Panama etc. because it doesn't seem that you are headed in the direction of Argentina.
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