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Welcome to Cartagena de Indias!
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This week cruiseship season started with the arrival of Coral Princess, bringing exactly 2.874 visitors to Cartagena. Next ship to arrive will be Norwegian Pearl with 2500 passengers and more than 1000 crew members on 4th of October. During the season of 2008-2009 Cartagena expects 150 cruiseships with an overall of more than 300.000 visitors. The city of Cartagena welcomes the cruiseship tourism with very special attention: The recently founded "Comité de Cruceros del Distrito" (Cruiseship Board of the District) is directed by the mayor itself. The corporation takes care of the special needs of visitors arriving by cruiseships: Additional street cleaning, the banning of cars from Cartagenas Old Town as well as a bi-lingual tourism police should help Cartagena to present itself as the top cruise destination in the Caribbean.
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OpenStreetMap.org is a free editable map made by volunteers around the world. Similar like Wikipedia the content is edited by thousands of users as a collective work. While commercial maps like googlemaps will take a long time to cover cities like Cartagena, OpenStreetMap's Cartagena map shows impressive progress: It's useble already, as you can see on our CaribeNet's Cartagena Map, which is feeded by OpenStreetmap.org.
Anyhow OpenStreetmap.org is work in progress: You are invited to be part of this work. If you know Cartagena you can register on the project site and help out with your knowledge: Editing street names, one-way-directions, squares, landmarks etc. If you are visiting Cartagena and carrying a GPS you might even upload coordinates, routes, tracks: Take your GPS with while discovering Cartagena to collect geodata information for further visitors. More information and detailed tutorials you can find on www.openstreetmap.org.
OpenStreetmap hosts dynamic information that might be used on handheld devices, embedded in webpages (as above) or third-party applications. Output even might be generated as PDF file to provide customized printable maps. CaribeNet's Cartagena map is based on OpenStreetmap.org information while we added a Hotel- and Restaurant navigator.
Some more examples on how to use OpenStreetmap.org:
Centro Cartagena as printable PDF
Bocagrande, Castillogrande, Laguito as printable PDF
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Taking a taxi is cheap in Cartagena, but not always: As there are no taximeters in Cartagena drivers charge based on an official table. Unfortunately drivers like to overcharge visitors though the fares are clearly defined in an offcial pricelist. Drivers are obliged to carry this "lista de precios", but they usually don't. There are some little tricks to avoid problems: The most important part is to understand pricing scheme while moving by taxi in Cartagena.
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Spirit Airlines announced daily flights between Fort Lauderdale and Cartagena, beginning on 8th of May 2008. Read below for detailedl press release.
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From 29th of February until 7th of March Cartagena hosts the "Festival Internacional de Cine y TV de Cartagena". This years invited country is France, honoured with hommage to François Truffaut. Storyboard artist Lucas Gray will teach workshops about his work on the Simpsons movie and the national TV "Grammies" are to be hold on Plaza Aduana. Movies screened in the competition for "India Catalina" Awards show a wide range of Latinamerican and Spanish Cinema, including Colombian movie "Los actores del conflicto" by Lisandro Duque Naranjo.
One of the main attractions of the Cartagena Film Festival is its location: Visitors can attend open air screenings on Plaza Aduana, Plaza Trinidad and Plaza San Diego or watch movies surrounded by the wonderful athmosphere of Teatro Heredia, Hotel Santa Teresa or the Naval Museum. Free screenings are offered in popular neighbourhoods like Olaya Herrera, Las Gaviotas, El Socorro and Fredonia. Details you can find on the website of the festival: www.festicinecartagena.org
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Colombian immigration laws permit a maximum stay of 6 months per year as a tourist. Visitors of most countries do not need a visa in advance but get the visa stamped into their passport upon arrival. Be aware that the immigration officer decides about the initial period of your stay: 30, 60 or 90 days. If you plan to stay more than one month you should advise the officials on arrival - before your passport gets stamped! - If you wish to stay longer than the period authorized on your initial entry stamp you should go to an immigration office and ask for an extension. Do this in time, a few days before your visa expires as there is some paperwork involved: You might have to give fingerprints and you will have to pay a fee of roughly USD 40 to a bank account. Be aware that Colombian authorities are very strict with these dates - Whenever you pass your maximum stay you will be fined before you can leave the country!
If you need a visa extension in Cartagena you will have to go to the foreigners department of local DAS office in the "Pie de la Popa" neighbourhood.
Immigration Office Cartagena:
DAS (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad)
Extranjería
Carrera 20 B No. 29-18 Pie de la Popa
Tel: 6568003 - 6560646 - 6562524- 6664665
Open from 8-12 and 2-5, monday through friday.
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Last week the British consulate of Cartagena was opened. As the Ambassador Haydon Warren-Gash stated Britain is the second biggest foreign investor in Colombia with mayor investments in mining, energy and financial sector. The opening of the local consulate tributes to the significant growth of British tourism in the "Heroic city" as well as the cultural importance with events like Hay Festival, International Classic Music Festival as well as the Film Festival of Cartagena.
British Consulate Cartagena
Edificio Chambacú
Carrera 13B No. 26 – 78
Oficina 416
Telephone: (+575) 664 7590
Fax: (+575) 653 8050
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The third edition of Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias will take place from 24 to 27 January 2007. This years special guests include British filmaker Stephen Frears as well as Senegalese singer and guitarist Baaba Maal.
Hans Christopher Buch and Marcos Aguinis, Germany, Ariel Magnus, Pedro Mairal and Daniel Mordzinski, Argentina; Mónica Alí, Bangladesh; Joao Paulo Cuenca and Nélida Piñón, Brazil; Wendy Guerra, Cuba; Jorge Edwards, Chile; Rosa Conde, Juan Cruz Ruiz, Enrique de Hériz, Cristina García, Belén Gopegui, Jorge Herralde, Pepe Surela, Pablo Jiménez Burillo, Jesús Martín-Barbero, Alfons Martinell, Ana María Moix and Fernando Rodríguez Lafuent from Spain are just a few of the many invited writers, editors and journalists from around the world.
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"A serious contender [for] the worst movie ever made from a great novel ... Skip the film; reread the book." states Time Magazine. " Los Angeles Times writes: "the novel has made it to the screen in the form of a plodding, tone-deaf, overripe, overheated Oscar-baiting telenovela ... Doubtless it's an enormously daunting task to adapt a book at once so sweeping and internal, so swooningly romantic and philosophical, but it takes a lighter touch and a more expansive view than Newell and Harwood seem to bring."
Terribly bad critics, we don't mind: This film is a must see, maybe not for movie lovers but for anybody interested in Cartagena. As the film is not released in Colombia yet we still have to wait until we can see this the "la Heroica" on the big screen. Meanwhile we stay with the trailer on the official homepage or just watch "Behind the scenes" : (Click below...)
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