Its historic beauty, grand heritage and rich culture has labelled Cartagena as the 'Florence of South America'. A designated UNESCO World Heritage Site it attracts many visitors and famous residents, the most notable of which is Latin America’s greatest fictional writer Gabriel García Marquéz, whose setting of the novel Love in the Time of Cholera acknowledges the very inspirational effect of Cartagena on the author.

And its not hard to see why; warm Caribbean breezes gather up the sounds of salsa music and scents from flower-filled balconies that swell from the rainbow-coloured manor houses lining its cobbled streets, flooding what is undoubtedly Colombia’s most enchanting, romantic and hospitable city.

Steeped in colonial and nautical history, this old port town boasts its original and very impressive ramparts, forts, and bastions as well as a picturesque downtown quarter perfectly preserved, yet majestically eroded, from the age of colonial Spanish rule and the era of buccaneers. Expect to be transported back a couple of hundred years whilst exploring this Andean walled city and many café-lined plazas.

Also as one of Colombia’s safest and most lively cities there is a vibrant nightlife, especially in the newer more modern neighborhoods of Bocagrande. There are plenty of markets, museums, antique shops, jewelers and stylish restaurants to discover, and we can organize expert guides to take you round the city.