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The many friendly street vendors will help you out. They sell fresh and cool cocomilk, enormous ripe avocados, delicious lime or some slices of water melon and pineapple. Taste it ! Yummie.
For 1 USD You can take a picture of the ladies in typical dress. The fruit basket they carry on their head is really very heavy. I guess +- 15 kilo. Leave a Comment
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If you visit Cartaguena coast be sure that you´ll never forget this trip.
You will find in all places very fun lovely people , that they like to invite you to their house and to drink ron and to listen typical music vallenato, cumbias, porros, puyas, etc.
In this area of Colombia, there are many typical festivals, for example "Carnaval de Barranquilla", "Festival del Porro", "Festival Vallenato" and other. Their music is very rich in instruments and dancing.
Is very common that you can dance and drink ron for many days and nights in this part of Colombia.
At the beach the coastal women like to make many a little braids in the hair of tourists, that is very common in Cartagena.
Ah.... don´t forget to eat "bollos", "name", ärepa e huevo" and other exquisite foods that you can´t get in other countries and if you go in a public bus you have to scream "parada,parada" to stop and get off.
Everybody like to speak very loud and about your life...don´t worry , that is very common.
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Cartagena is the city of sound, wherever you go, you will hear vallenato playing. Their form of salsa with its exquisite sound will either annoy you completely or make you fall in love with the city even more. Expect it everywhere and get used to it! :) They even played it in the plane to Cartagena! :) Leave a Comment
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look for people who lives in the city and don't work in the tourist area, for example like i, i want to practice my english, if you need help, i will give you help here without pay money only to practice my english, i prefer people who are going to be for long time one month, two months or more Phone: 3006184461Other Contact: nelsonmvillate@yahoo.com
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It's quite a sight to see, women holding candles and small children wearing cardboard gold-coloured crowns coloured on their heard. Friendly cartagena locals are even firendlier on that day, and were ravished to know that in the village in souther italy where we spend part of the summer, the virgin del carmen is celebrated, too. Leave a Comment
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Locals often perform Music and dance for tips in the Plaza Bolivar. Leave a Comment
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Go and see the Mapale dancers in Cartagena. Mapale is an Afro-Colombian dance from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, danced at the sounds of drums and clapping of hands. Every day a group of young people, some as young as kids, dance for locals and foreigners in Plaza Bolivar.
It's not an organized traditional dance show... it takes place spontaneously, though those dancers obviously don't do it for free. A hat will be passed around from time to time, and you can give as much or as little as you like.
The Mapale dance, which takes its name from a fish, is a very sensual dance, with a lot of swift motions and swaying hips... flirtatious, too... and acrobatic. The dancers are excellent, and their costumes, which they change for every dance, very colourful. Leave a Comment
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