The guide · Cartagena, Colombia
About cartagena.info: an independent guide to Cartagena, Colombia
cartagena.info is an independent guide to Cartagena, Colombia, for people planning a visit: when to go, what to do at which hour, which island, where to stay and what the official fees are. It is not the website of the city, of the tourism board, of the port or of any tour operator or hotel.
1The guide
What it is, and what it is not
The guide is built around the clock. In Cartagena the heat, the island boats, the cruise ships and the sunset decide how a day goes, so the pages give their advice by month and by hour. Pick your month at the top of any page and every page follows it.
The guide sells nothing itself. A booking happens on the site of a booking partner or of the operator, never here. Where it gives what a tour costs, it is the lowest price the partner listed on the day named beside it, not a price the guide sets. It prints no review scores.
It is also not a source of rules. Entry requirements, park fees and closures are set by the bodies named on each page, and their word is the one that counts. The pages link to them.
2The editor
Who publishes and edits it
cartagena.info is published and edited by Rainer Lang. He decides what is published and is responsible for it. The guide is independent and unofficial: no city office, tourism board, port, tour operator or hotel stands behind it.
- Publisher
- Rainer Lang
- Contact
- The contact form, or [email protected].
- Reach him
- Write by email at [email protected] or through the contact form.
I spent 12 days in Cartagena in October 2023, as a tourist paying my own way. I stayed inside the walls, in Getsemaní and in Bocagrande, and got around by taxi and bus. I visited Castillo San Felipe, La Popa and the Bazurto market, crossed to Tierra Bomba, and went to Barú, the San Bernardo Islands, the Totumo mud volcano and San Basilio de Palenque. Where a page covers one of these, it says so under the byline. Rainer Lang
3Method
How the pages are made
- Fees, fares, rules
- Taken from the body that sets them, such as a site’s operator, the national parks authority, the airport or the migration office. A page prints the figure with its year; the source, with the date of the document, is in the source list at the end of the page.
- Heat by hour
- Computed from the hourly records of the weather station at Rafael Núñez airport.
- Ship days
- Counted from the cruise schedule the port publishes.
- Maps
- Drawn from OpenStreetMap.
- Dates
- Every page shows the date it was last updated.
- Corrections
- Welcome. If a fee has changed or a page is wrong, say so through the contact form.
The tables behind the pages, from felt temperature by hour to ship days and official prices, are open to download on the Cartagena data page. Photographers and data sources are named on the photo credits page.
4Money
How the guide earns money
The guide earns commissions from booking partners: when you book a tour, a boat or a room through a partner link, the partner pays the guide a share. The partner sets the price; the guide adds nothing to it. Bookable tours, boats and rooms are linked from the booking sites the guide works with; official sites and free sights are linked without commission, and the guide accepts no payment for coverage. Which links are partner links, and who the partners are, is set out in the affiliate disclosure.
The site sets no cookies. What it does with data is on the privacy page.