Cartagena

I was in Cartagena on September 1, when I went vacation with my family. I choose this city because I thing that is very interesting and funny for visit. Cartagena is 2 m. on the level of the sea, has a temperature of 29º in the day and of 25º in the night. In this city the people are very friendly and funny, they use the Colombian peso and speak Spanish. Cartagena have two parts, the one is the antique city, wich is walled and there are a lot of antique houses and bussiness like restaurants, jewerlys an others. For example you can go to the San Felipe de Barajas Castle, which is the biggest military Spanish building of the New World.

Behind of this, you can Find a monument called "Las Botas Viejas", which is a honoring to one of the biggest poets of Cartagena. The other part is the New City, when there are many the hotels, the beach, clothes and more thigs to buy. In the surroundings you can find islands like Barú, where actually there are beautiful beaches of white sands, transparents waters and multicolored corals. Cartagena has varied restaurants especialized in Arabics, Chinese, Italian and French food between several.

Comparing Cartagena with Cuenca.

I thing Cartagena and Cuenca have many similarities, so the two cities were declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity for their antiques houses and touristic places. Also, most of the people are catolic and have freedom of worship, their system of transport is with buses and taxis and overcoat in the two cities you can find antiques houses and modern buildings like a mix of the colonial and new architecture.

As, for differences I can mention things like the weather because Cuenca is generally cold and Cartagena´s weather is very hot. Also the currency, dollars and Colombian peso, the height on the level of the sea and the poblation.