Honeymoon

JoeG says on Sep 4, 2007, 19:40:

I was just in Cartagena last weekend for a wedding. Islas rosarios are easy, there are several different tour companies that will take you there for the day, ask at your hotel. There must be a way to quickly get to santa marta, because the bride and groom left cartagena for santa marta, not sure how they got there though. I was too drunk/hung over to pay attention to travel details.

San Andres might be cheaper from bogota, I haven't been there though.

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chewy says on Sep 4, 2007, 20:22:

14 days is plenty. I was 20 days and loved it and just got back las Saturday. In fact, I am moving to Turbaco (near Cartagena) and I live in Puerto Rico. My 20 days included traveling by bus to Medellin and did get to see a lot. Just make yourself a planned schedule and you will have plenty of time. Just that the time goes soooooo fast when you are in a honey moon. The rest of the time after the honey moon is what worries me.

If you travel by bus once you are in Cartagena, go to the bus terminal about an hour before the bus leaves and ask for a discount (regatear). They did to us every time.

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tompower says on Sep 5, 2007, 13:13:

cartagena-barranquilla-santa marta Shuttle Van MAR SOl is a bus service that runs an hourly van service from cartagena to barranquilla then to santa marta.
They use mercedes benz vans that are all very new, they seat no more than 13 people. They are a very organized and an impressive service. What you do is call them give your name and number and where you are, my experience with them is only cartagena to barranquilla and return but I'm certain the service is excellent all the way to santa marta. If for example you are in the hotel dan carlton in the Laguito, you call and reserve your time for the next available bus they run every hour from 6am till 4 pm to barranquilla/santamarta. The van comes to your hotel and they go around cartagena picking everyone up then they stop at the cartagena office near the airport and then they leave on the costal highway to barranquilla when they arrive at barranquilla they drive a route around the city to drop people off, they dont go all the way south in barranquilla they'll drop you off at a point as far south as they go, in cartagena they won't go any farther from the center than pie de la popa (where the monastery on the hill is). If the van is leaving the cartagena office at 6 am they start picking people up at 5am if you call they'll say like be ready at 5:30 am . They always show up i've never been stiffed and i've used them dozens of times. Sometimes if the passangers are from all over cartagena they'll pick you up in a taxi and the taxi will take you to the office where you'll board the van before going to barranquilla.
Best of all it only costs 19,000 pesos and these guys know the highway they fly through the security and speed traps never longer than 1 hour and 15 minutes to get to barranquilla.
I know they're good because all the other van services try and steal their passengers. There's a home depot at the pie de la popa and sometimes when I'm waiting there for the mar sol van the caribe van(another service) will come by and say mar sol sent them for me and its bull shit. Mar Sol is great and a great price, why use a private car for 120,000 pesos they actually take longer sometimes.
Here's the numbers for the mar sol office in barranquilla:
3683272 3694228 3008083147 3135450004 3736425 3574265
their address is calle 93 # 47-13 their right up from the McDonald's
Here's the numbers for the Mar Sol office in Cartagena:
6564192 3008056659 their office address in cartagena is crespo cll. 70 no. 6a/120 When you walk out of the airport in cartagena theres a main street in crespo i don't know its name but you just walk one block to the right and their office is on the sea side of the street, once again walk directly out the airport to the main crespo road and turn right walk one block and you'll see the mar sol office on the right hand side.
The Mar Sol van service between Cartagena-Barranquilla-Santa Marta is Tom Power approved.
Remember, were all in this together.

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luly_1 says on Sep 20, 2007, 16:06:

go to parque tayrona in santa marta. its beautiful...and a great place to be alone with your honey. lol.

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goin_south says on Sep 20, 2007, 21:52:

ok; I think I will (do that!), luly_1

Where do we go from here?

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nflores07070 says on Oct 11, 2007, 17:35:

Thanks for the great advice - I think I am going to do all those places and include Tayrona National and maybe even Providencia as well.

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la campiña says on Oct 11, 2007, 18:37:

mud volcanoes, sink or eat minerales

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MaSep says on Oct 18, 2007, 15:00:

isn´t it dangerous the Tairona? I want to take my gringuito there?

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