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05/09/2020

This Is Àdios.

After 9 years working day and night to promote Cartagena and Colombia this is the end of the road for This Is Cartagena and This Is Colombia Travel.
It’s been quite a journey. Since we first launched in November 2011, the This Is family has had a blast helping more than 2 million people fall in love with the city that we’re lucky enough to call home.
Unfortunately, all good things come to an end and it’s time to move on.
An enormous thank you to all the people that made This Is Cartagena and This Is Colombia Travel by dedicating their talent and time to take such great care of our guests.
A huge hug to all of the lovely people that visited Colombia and left a little bit of themselves in the city.
It might be the end of the road for This Is Cartagena and This Is Colombia Travel but we urge you all to please come back, when we can travel again, and help this amazing city and country get back on track.
We have nothing but gratitude for all the lessons learned on the way. Here’s to a new dawn.

06/05/2020

Get Ready to Show Your Support for Cartagena. 48 hours for Cartagena and Bolivar

30/04/2020

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🌎Fuerte de San Fernando en Bocachica. "El Arte es esencial, la experiencia de ser o hacer parte de un acto cultural es de primera necesidad. Es alimento, es salud, es vital"

22/04/2020

Un día como hoy celebramos la vida que proviene de la Pacha Mama recordando algunos de nuestros paisajes favoritos.

Respetemos y valoremos los regalos que ofrece la Tierra y, siempre que sea posible, devolvamos un poco de su energía siendo cada día más conscientes del impacto que nuestras acciones tienen en ella.

Feliz día de La Tierra! 🌎🌱🌊☀️

20/04/2020

Lets taste and feel the beautiful Cartagena. Walk with us on a delightful journey through the words that define "La Heróica".

18/04/2020

This Is a Very Good Initiative. Go straight to the source. Buy healthy produce from farmers in Montes de Maria to give it to people who need it in Cartagena. Donors required to make it happen.

Podemos pensar qué es mejor, si comprar y donar alimentos enlatados y productos importados o comprar alimentos agrícolas cultivados por campesinos locales y donarlos.
La zona de Montes de María es una despensa abundante que aún en esta crisis sigue siendo ignorada por muchos, en medio de esta preocupación nos unimos

Para lanzar esta campaña y recaudar el dinero que será destinado para comprar alimentos cultivados por campesinos de la zona de Montes de María y donarlos a familias de bajos recursos de los barrios populares de la ciudad de Cartagena.
Puedes donar desde $10.000 en adelante 🙏
Quienes estén interesados dejo el link aquí y en mis historias y perfil de Instagram.
https://payco.link/388591
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17/04/2020

Good News Movement
En cada situación complicada hay mil oportunidades de encontrar momentos de felicidad.

¡Que sigan viniendo las buenas noticias!

Foto: Geneva Woods, 90 años - Sobreviviente de COVID-19
https://www.thegoodnewsmovement.com/

14/04/2020

Life goes on. We might be having a tough time but Non-humans are loving this. Plants and animals are recovering their habitats the world over. This video was taken in Bahia Solano, on the Pacific Coast of Colombia.

Hopefully we'll remember that we share the planet with others when we emerge from our self-isolation.

14/04/2020

Life goes on. We might be having a tough time but Non-humans are loving this. Plants and animals are recovering their habitats the world over. This video was taken in Bahia Solano, on the Pacific Coast of Colombia. Stunning.

Hopefully we'll remember that we share the planet with others when we emerge from our self-isolation.

08/04/2020

This Is 4U Cartagena was born out of a need to do something to help Cartagena in this unprecedented moment in time. There are going to be so many difficult problems to solve that all of us are going to have to start the healing somewhere.

This Is Cartagena has started by creating a forum for people to find each other and be able to offer support if they can or ask for help if they need it. It’s an open platform, feel free to post if you can; either a) "OFFERING" something i.e. time, money or other resources, or are b) "IN SEARCH OF" something urgently.

It’s simple - post and add the tag “In Search of” if you need something or “offering” if you are in a position to help.
Please share the group with your friends in Cartagena and beyond, friends and families, people that have been to Cartagena and might be interested in doing something to help. We need to collaborate to alleviate the unprecedented difficulties Cartagena faces now and will face in the future. Together we can do much more.

Please join team This Is 4U Cartagena campaign and reach out to give someone a helping hand

01/04/2020

Everyone at This Is Cartagena wants to thank you for believing in Colombia. We loved having you in our city. We're thinking about you and everyone else in New York at this difficult time. We hope you and your family are well. Stay safe and we'll see you in Cartagena again soon.

At this difficult time for everyone send some love to someone special that you haven't seen in a while. Let them know we're all in this together.

Love from Team Cartagena

Everyone at This Is Cartagena wants to thank you for believing in Colombia. We loved having you in our city. We're thinking about you at this difficult time. We hope you and your family are well. Stay safe and we'll see you in Cartagena again soon.

27/03/2020

Some people look out the window and see a crisis. Others get creative. Others, like La Chechi, start to heal through their creativity. La Chechi, as she's known, used to teach the prisoners of San Diego Women's Prison to cook for their transformational prison restaurant and now she's the one who's been confined. That ain't stopping her from spreading her infectious feel-good vibes. Along with her colleagues she's started a movement that helps through her IG followers to cook easy and delicious meals with whatever they have on hand at home. Promoting self-love, wellbeing, saving money and celebrating the goodness of healthy eating, wouldn't it be great if everyone had La Chechi's outlook on how to turn scraps into magic?

Son las personas que crean iniciativas desinteresadas para cambiar el miedo y la ansiedad por esperanza, los que nos ayudan a mantenernos en pie para superarlo.

Chechi es una de esas personas.
Esta chef Cartagenera, junto a otros colegas, lidera un movimiento que enseña a instagrammers sencillas recetas utilizando lo que tienen en la cocina.

What are you cooking tomorrow? Let us know what's on the menu at your place or what you're doing to help heal Cartagena? This Is 4U Cartagena

26/03/2020

PARE! 🚫 (STOP in Spanish)
When nothing goes right. Turn Left!

The streets of Cartagena used to be filled with people enjoying the city's colonial charms. Not any more! This virus turned the entire world upside down. Cartagena relies on tourism to keep food on the table for 30% of the city's population.

Life's about to get very difficult for a lot of people. Like everyone, This Is Cartagena has been hit but we're not giving up hope, just channelling our energy differently. We're still here to help Good People Do Great Things. More than ever! We've created a Facebook group This Is 4U Cartagena which aims to connect those that can help with people that need their help most. It's a start.

If you have travelled to Cartagena and want to help or if you're a business in Cartagena that wants to get involved in helping the city in this difficult time please join us at: This Is 4U Cartagena https://www.facebook.com/groups/4ucartagena

24/03/2020

This Is 4U Cartagena is looking for people that can offer their help to re-build Cartagena after the shock of ZERO visitors to the local economy. If you have something you can do for the city then please join this group and leave a post labelled. "Offering" This is for people that are able to offer their time, support of financial aid to help with the needs of the city

21/03/2020

Bazurto All Stars lead singer "Fredy" teach us his coolest champeta moves to set the Friday mood.
Things to do while at home: Work on your champeta swag 💃🕺👯‍♂️👯‍♀️

Fredy, vocalista de Bazurto All Stars nos enseña sus mejores pasos de champeta para ponernos en modo viernes.
Tarea: Trabajar en el swag champetuo.

Canción: El retén - Criss y Ronny

19/03/2020

There's light at the end of the tunnel. 🔆
Cartagena, like much of the world, is under lock down. Curfew here lasts from 18:00 to 05:00 and all day at weekends. Nobody's allowed onto the streets at all except emergency forces.
Juan Londoño took these eery images last night. 📸

Normally the city would be filled with fun-loving hedonists well into the early hours. Those frivoluos days (and nights) already seem like another era, like something from the pages of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. This city has seen more difficult times in its history. It's lived through sieges, bloody attacks by pirates, plagues. It's going to take more than a virus to beat La Heroica.
We might not be out on the street but we're still here! ☀️💪🇨🇴

The city in the times of a emergency curfew

18/03/2020

This is hard for all of us but it's harder for some than others. The UN estimates that 1 in 10 of the world's population depends on tourism to make a living. In Cartagena the number is higher - 30%. Most of those people aren't getting a pay check this month. Most of them don't ever get a pay check - they have to scrape what money they can together on a day-to-day basis. The city's closed for business for a month at least. It's hard for them to stay home when they have nothing. If you can help ease their pain then please do 🙏🏻
If you can help then please do. Our local partner, Domino Volunteers, is doing what they can to ensure the help gets to where its needed most. Contact Domino Volunteers Cartagena for more information

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Es una situación difícil para todos nosotros, pero más difícil para algunos en especial. La ONU estima que 1 de cada 10 personas en el mundo depende del turismo para sobrevivir. En Cartagena la mayoría de estas personas no recibirá pago durante los meses que se avecinan.
En la ciudad, el trabajador del día a día nunca en su vida ha recibido un salario formal y deben encontrar formas de sobrevivir del dinero que pueden juntar en cada jornada.
Si hay algo que puedas hacer para ayudar a quienes lo necesitan por favor, no dudes en hacerlo. 🙏

17/03/2020

abCTG words to taste the city 🏡🍥

AREPA
Made from yellow or white ground maize dough, "arepas" are dipped into this city DNA. This tasty treat is perfect any time of the day.

Stay tunned to learn more about Cartagena's incredible food 👀😋
https://cartagena.welcometotheneighbourhood.net/category/recipes/

15/03/2020

How low can you go? - Pretty low for a sunday
On our boat experiences its always party time. Even brooms works as limbo sticks! 🛥️🥂🎉

15/03/2020

Getsemaní, Cartagena
Sunday homrun ⚾

14/03/2020

Hip and happening Getsemaní still has a local vibe. Loud and proud, the people of Getsemani love to let it all hang out at the weekend. Head to El Pedregal to catch a scratch softball game with a pumping salsa beat.

Find a spot on the historic walls, grab a cold beer and enjoy! ⚾🍻🕺

This is Cartagena, the real one. Explore Getsemani with the Cartagena Travel Experts

12/03/2020

to when we wanted to brag about our office view and had Tico Angulo Molina take this mind-blowing photo from the balcony. We really do have the best view in town. Come and say hola for the best sunset in Cartagena🌅

¡Free coffee for all visitors at This Is Cartagena HQ!

11/03/2020

Cartagena de película 🎥
Hoy, a las 9 de la noche en el Teatro Adolfo Mejía Cartagena inicia el
La película inaugural, "Waiting for the barbarians" es la más reciente creación del realizador Colombiano Ciro Guerra: Un drama protagonizado por Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp y Robert Pattinson.

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Lights, camera, action! 🎥
Today, at 9p.m at Teatro Adolfo Mejía starts the famous Cartagena Film Festival.
The opening screening will be Ciro Guerra's "Waiting for the barbarians" the directors recent drama starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson.

More info + movie schedules at:
http://ficcifestival.com/pelicula.php?p=1$$-1$$-qm4nNEHfdnZetm9egB1nwASvgCXG3C6fwm&idi=en

01/01/2020

Happy New Year! This holiday in Cartagena is an explosive cocktail of sizzling fireworks, dancing and one-too-many shots. We caught some of the best bits of last year's epic celebrations to wet your appetite for this year. Check it out for yourself! 🙌🏽🎊🎉

25/12/2019

Christmas is about spending time with family and friends. It’s about creating happy memories that will last a lifetime. Merry Christmas to you and your family! 🎄🎊🎉

16/12/2019

Colombia Flyboard! 🏄🏽‍♂ Live out your flying fantasies and swim like a dolphin with this adrenaline-soaked experience that will literally sweep you off your feet, and leave you with a natural high for days on end 🌊👌🏽 More info 👇🏽

Book a Colombia Flyboard class and the best city tours in Cartagena with This Is Cartagena, the Cartagena travel experts