Thursday, February 7, 2008

Welcome to Cartagena!!!
My first day in Cartagena, Colombia was BEYOND AMAZING!!! Check out the wildlife I found just after breakfast in the park two blocks from my hostel, Casa Viena. HUGE iguanas, tiny monkeys and two different sloths. We looked and looked for sloths in Costa Rica...saw one at night, was very tough to see...little did I know, all I needed to do was come to Cartagena and could be within a foot of one!!! Completely surreal!

The photo above was taken a few nights into my stay in Cartagena. A bunch of us went on a party bus tour of the city and at one of the stops, a guy was totting this sloth around, for tips of course...I couldn't resist!!!




Just passing by!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!













Colombians enjoying the wildlife as well.
Click on the photo above to see it larger. It looks as though he's looking down through his legs, but his head is actually turned almost 180ยบ around!!
Sloths and iguanas living together in harmony (on different tree branches)

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