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Medellin to Buenos Aires - by boat?

I'd like to find a way to get to Buenos Aires other than by air. I appreciate that Medellin's port facilities are poor, but does anyone know of any ships to the 'Paris of South America' leaving from a Colombian port (Cartagena, for example)?
If it helps, I don't mind helping to shovel coal into the ship's furnace, but I would have to draw the line at sharing my hammock.

By Hugfrancis on Nov 17, 2008, 11:08 in Friendly Talkzone.

esanch36 says on Nov 17, 2008, 11:11:

Medellin is in the interior..duh

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Mononoke28 says on Nov 17, 2008, 11:11:

Medellin's port facilities are not only poor but non-existent since it's not even close to the ocean.

Diana

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Mononoke28 says on Nov 17, 2008, 11:16:

LOL... no kidding, we all thought it was the ocean, turns out it was just rain.

Diana

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Hugfrancis says on Nov 17, 2008, 11:52:

Oh dear - I can see that I set the 'irony detection' level too high. I am well aware that it has been a long time since Medellin was visited by ships - if ever! So putting on my straight face - anyone know of a passenger ship from a Colombian port to Buenos Aires?

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Cheers Terry says on Nov 17, 2008, 12:03:

I'll go out on a limb and guess that since going by boat would be so much more expensive than flying that a commercial passenger service doesn't exist. I'd be interested to be proven wrong...

Cheers,
Terry

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Mononoke28 says on Nov 17, 2008, 12:09:

I can't think of any since that is not the preferred way of traveling for Colombians. Have you called local travel agencies located in the big cities like Cartagena, Santa Marta or Barranquilla?

Diana

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durito2 says on Nov 17, 2008, 12:14:

Fly to Leticia. Take a boat to Manaus. Take buses to BA.

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santoblas (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 17, 2008, 12:23:

I think you'd have to take the boat all the way to Belen to catch a bus south. But buses go north to venezuela from Manaus

http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/making/warprayer.html

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El Piloto says on Nov 17, 2008, 14:01:

Any liner services still have passenger cabins avilable? Back in the day Delta Line used to carry a few passengers on its South America ships.

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pelicanlarry says on Nov 17, 2008, 14:32:

well if you go to the port of rio medellin there are boats living every hour,to baranquilla

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el_scouser says on Nov 17, 2008, 14:57:

You can take a boat down from Manaus, right down into Bolivia - then bus it from there

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el_scouser says on Nov 17, 2008, 16:02:

you can take the boat down from Manaus into Bolivia smart ass, I did it last year.

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Titofijo says on Nov 17, 2008, 16:26:

there is a river alongside the metro in Medellin that will get you to BA

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august says on Nov 17, 2008, 16:41:

That's a long-ass trip your talking about there sailor. Mentions of coal-shoveling give me the sense you could handle an adventure: just go to your Colombian port of choice and start asking around - carefully. I wouldn't hold out for a non-stop trip, but I have no doubt that you could hop your way around and down the coast on small cargo boats. I would allow at least a couple months for that journey - which sounds quite choice actually.

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calikitty1 says on Nov 17, 2008, 17:39:

An the Lord said "Build me an ark.

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Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 18, 2008, 16:50:

You can do it with a Canoe. Some Canadains did it from Canada to the mouth of the Amazon

Beam me up Scotty; No intelligent life here.

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