Cartagena Luxury Villas & Insider Travel Guide

Cartagena is a great place to start exploring Colombia from, but it is also thrilling enough for a standalone trip. With a population of under a million inhabitants it is pleasingly compact, which means it doesn’t take long to get under the skin of the city. Getsemani is home to some of the city’s most exciting places to eat, such as Celele, whose tropical-modern take on Colombian Caribbean – a cuisine that cherry picks from the region’s multi-layered indigenous, Spanish and Caribbean heritage – just got it voted one of Latin America’s 50 best restaurants. The cobbled lanes of Getsemani are also where you’ll find Cartagena’s ridiculously rhythmic locals pulling out all the stops at the city’s steamy salsa bars. ng home.