Cartagena is hot and sunny almost all year, so there’s no truly bad time to go. But the best time to visit Cartagena depends on what matters most to you: guaranteed sunshine, smaller crowds, lower prices or a big festival. Here’s how the year breaks down. The short...
A Rosario Islands day trip is the one experience almost every visitor to Cartagena puts on their list. The Islas del Rosario are a chain of small coral islands inside a protected national park, roughly an hour by boat from the city. Turquoise water, snorkeling,...
The best way to spend your first day in Cartagena is simple: put on comfortable shoes, grab a bottle of water and get lost inside the walls. The historic center is compact, flat and packed with color, so you can see the highlights in a single morning-to-sunset loop...
