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South America offers a rich experience for any traveler. This region’s variety of countries provides the tourist with a great selection of things to do and places to see. The picturesque city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia is home to a number of exciting opportunities for every traveler. A new event that is capturing the eyes of travelers is La Cartagena Festival Internacional De Musica, or the Cartagena International Music Festival, which is held from January 9 until the 16th.
Begun in 2007 by Charles Wadsworth, Victor Salvi, and his wife Julia Salvi this festival has been held annually for four years. For the Salvis this music festival is a tool their organization, Fundación Salvi, uses to combat poverty and violence in Colombia. This festival started off simply using chamber music. The festival now, though, has added many new concerts and musical styles, including many performances by Colombian musicians. It seeks to raise the musical level in the country and raise a generation that makes music an important part of everyday life.
The tourist who takes part in this festival will surely be enriched by its program. Many activities are offered each day of the festival. Each day there is at least one concert. On some days, like Monday, January 11, there are many concerts. Featured in all of the concerts are a variety of artists and musicians. Some of the featured acts are Natalia Forero, the talented teenagers Lyon and Healy, and the Fundación Salvi. Other prominent features of the program are the exhibitions and special lectures. One notable lecture is “The Life of Mozart-The Years of Maturity”. All these events make for a memorable program.
In addition to the abundant daily features of the Festival’s program, the tourist can join in some of the highlights of the festival. The festival will include several lectures and other musical performances, such as the City of London Symphony, the Shanghai String Quartet, and pianist Stephen Prutsman.
Indeed, this festival is one that promises entertainment, excitement, and memories for a lifetime. With this festival you can make your Colombian vacation complete.
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The Hay Festival of Literature and Arts originated in the small town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales, which is lovingly known as The Town of Books. After starting small, the Hay Festival grew rapidly and later festivals included live performances and film previews. The latest development is that the festival is now international with sister festivals taking place in various locations around the world, including Nairobi, Segovia and Cartagena de Indias in Colombia.
The 2010 Cartagena Hay Festival will run from the 28th to the 31st of January 2010. The festival will be the fifth of the series held in Cartagena and promises to feature an outstanding mix of local and international authors and artists, including Ian McEwan and Manu Dibango. Festival events will be held in various locales like the Plaza Aduana, the Theater Adolfo Mejia and the Plaza Santa Domingo and tickets can be purchased online at the festival's own website.
An associated event is the online National Short Story Competition that is organized especially for young adults of secondary, higher and further education levels across Colombia and the prizes for the best stories will be handed out during the festival. The festival is not only aimed at students, however, and adults and, where appropriate, children are also encouraged to attend.
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Manu Dibango
Photo by Espace Michel Simon
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Placido Domingo
Photo by Russell Hirshon |
Spanish tenor Placido Domingo will perform an open air concert on 5th of December 2009. The maestro will present his show with Grammy winning soprano singer Ana María Martínez as well as Cartagena's "Orquesta Sinfonica", conducted by Eugene Kohn. Location for this cultural highlight will be the "Camellón de los Mártires", in front of the clock tower (Torre del Reloj). The Cartagena event will be one of only 3 concerts of Domingos Latin American tour, covering as well Caracas and Lima. Tickets will be available at prices between 45 and 600 USD.
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From April 29th LAN Peru will start a non stop flight from Lima to Cartagena. The new route will be operated two times per week using an Airbus A319 with a capacity of 144 passengers . The new route is focused to cover the high demand from South American tourists visiting Cartagena de Indias.
Since end of March national budget airline Easyfly offers direct connections between Cartagena and Bucaramanga with connections to Cúcuta. These flights operate three times a week offer an interesting alternative for travelers between Cartagena and Venezuela: Actual prices are around 40USD one-way.
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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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