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For once, we weren’t exhausted getting to a new destination! Our mid-afternoon flight landed without a hitch and we wrangled a cab to our Airbnb smack in the center of Old Town, Cartagena. Our first view of the famous fortified port city was the massive, softly-lit city walls, gently lapping Caribbean, and blaring of taxi…

We ended up in Bogotá on a whim. The capital city of Colombia was a required layover between Mexico City and Cartagena and there weren’t any great flight options that didn’t include spending the night. An affordable (~$30/night) but highly rated hotel was found and booked with credit card points and we didn’t think much more…