Cartagena

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Colombia, in One Sentence A friend who’d been three times told me flatly: “Don’t go in October, the whole country drowns.” So naturally I went in October, because the flights into Cartagena were almost half what they’d cost over Christmas. And here’s the thing nobody warned me about: the rain came, sure, but it came as a single furious twenty-minute downpour each afternoon, the kind you watch from a balcony with a cold limonada de coco, and then the old walled city steamed dry under a gold late-day sun. We had the ramparts almost to ourselves at sunset. I’ll explain why that “drowning” month was secretly the smart move further down. ...