Manzanillo del Mar Travel Guide

 call_me_rhia Says:  There's really not much to do in Manzanillo, except enjoy the long clean beach of light brown sand and swim in the sea... clear clean water, and a very low-key atmosphere. it's best to go at weekends, since some (very few, actually) Cartagena residents head there, which... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  We had lunch at one of the few open-air beach restaurants in manzanillo del mar... all are very simple and similar... some tables, plastic chairs and not much else... but the staff is firendly and the food is good. You can leave your things in the restaurant while you head... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  While you can get to manzanillo by bus or by taxi, to get to the manglares (mangroves) you obviously need a boat... local fisherman are used to taking people out through the mangrove channels. Because these channels are very shallow, they use small wooden boats that they... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  In Manzanillo, for a smal fee (I think about 20000 COP) you can ask a fisherman to take you out on a small boat to see the mangroves. The one who took us around called himself "the papa" and he was very nice - explained the five types of mangroves that live in the manglares... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  Manzanillo del Mar is a quiet fishing village about 20 minutes from Cartagena, by road... between Punta Canoa and La Boquilla. Manzanillo owes its name to a variety of trees popular in the region, the manzanillos. It is also the place where people in the past took the stones...