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Article: Intriguing Cartagena: Colombia's colonial port is in tune with the 21st century. (Part of the Month)(Cover Story).(Cover Story)
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- Cruise Travel
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- December 1, 2001
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As your cruise liner slowly sails into Cartagena Bay south of Isla de Terra Bombs to dock at the pier in residential Manage, the impression is you're approaching a 21st century city. On the horizon the skyline of towering skyscrapers looks all too familiar.
But oddly, you're about to land at Colombia's second largest port, with some 750,000 inhabitants, and a history that begins in 1533. And more than likely your four-hour shore tour (usual time for most cruise-ship excursions) will be spent in the ancient, walled city that hasn't changed much in more than four centuries--approximately seven miles of the towering, old walls are still standing. Of course, the ...