3 Amazing Hidden Places To Visit In Cartagena

Colombia’s ancient port city is home to numerous experiences that you won’t find anywhere else – and a visit here isn’t complete without getting hands-on with at least a few of them. We curated list for Cartagena takes you to the very heart of the city.

Whether you want to make chocolate, take to the seas in a kayak, improve your rumba or salsa technique, or enjoy the city’s street food scene, here’s an enticing look at how to get the most enjoyment Cartagena has to offer.

* Specialty Coffee Workshops in Cartagena

This workshop begins at 9 am within the gorgeous walled city of Cartagena. Your local guide, a certified coffee expert, will tell you about the history of coffee all the way up to the newest innovative coffee brewing methods. You will learn how to appreciate the special characteristics in the award-winning coffees you'll taste, what makes Colombia an ideal country to grow coffee, and details about coffee growers. This 3-hour workshop includes coffee tastings at each shop visited, but does not include other food and drinks.

* Cartagena In Kayak

Cartagena de Indias from the Caribbean on board a kayak discovering magical places of the city; you will navigate through the pier the Pegasos from where you will have a unique view of the Clock Tower, the camellon of the Martyrs and the Convention Center. After crossing the Roman bridge you will enjoy the lagoon of San Lázaro and its mangroves that extend along the only portion of the wall over the sea until you reach the island of birds, an island of mangrove inhabited by countless birds that accompany our passage with their melodious songs.

* Cartagena Art Tour

Visit the city’s most alluring galleries as well as the studios of talented local artists to discover why Cartagena is becoming such a cultural hotspot.Explore Getsemani, Cartagena’s emerging cultural quarter, learn about the barrio’s street art scene and the graffiti gallery that has given a face to the neighbourhood’s most revolutionary former resident, Pedro Romero.Visit the studios of local artists that have made Cartagena and the thriving streets of Getsemaní their muse and pick up a little something worth taking home with you and hanging on your wall.Given the healthy returns being posted by Colombian art in auctions around the world it would be foolish to go home without a little cultural loot of your own.