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Playa Blanca

Cartagena Province, Bolivar, Colombia
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Playa Blanca is the southernmost town of the Spanish island of Lanzarote. It is the newest resort on the island, and is part of the municipality of Yaiza.

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oneikaraymondoneikaraymond
[Save + Share] 🇨🇴CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA TIPS🇨🇴The fam and I spent three glorious weeks in Cartagena last year and it was a vibe! Its tropical climes, long stretches of beautiful beaches, and lower cost of living made an extended visit a no brainer for our nomadic family. Cartagena is also the center of Afro-Colombian culture, which meant this Caribbean gyal felt right at home. ✊🏾 So here are some of my recs for what to see, do, eat, and experience in Cartagena: 🇨🇴 EXPLORE/VISIT: Historic walled city; San Felipe castle; neighborhoods of Getsemani, Bocagrande, Manga 🇨🇴 ACTIVITIES: Sunset cruise; boat tours to Rosario Island and Playa Blanca; Isla Baru, National Aviary 🇨🇴EAT & DRINK: Mar y Zielo; Hotel Movich; La Cevicheria; Lena y Carbon; Morena Restaurante; Bar 1805; Epoca [Sidebar: there are so many amazing places to eat that I might have to make a separate post 😅) 🇨🇴EXPERIENCE: Tour to Palenque to learn more about Afro-Colombian history and culture; cooking class and market tour; dance the night away in a retrofitted Chiva party bus; horse-drawn carriage ride at sunset around historic center 🇨🇴STAY: Choose accommodation within the walled city for shorter stays. For longer visits, vacation rental apartments around the Bocagrande area are where its at! We did this but I wouldn’t recommend the condo we rented because we had an ant infestation.😅 Have you been to Cartagena and/or are interested in going? P.S.: Colombia is beautiful, y’all. It’s so unfair that most people don’t get to experience it due to outdated perceptions about the country being “scary”. P.S.S.: it’s ColOmbia with an “O”, not Columbia. Just a minor pet peeve of mine…😜 #colombia #travelreels #traveltips #cartagenacolombia #blackpassportstamps #girlslovetravel #2024travel #bucketlist #bucketlisttravel
Dan Lucian IlieDan Lucian Ilie
Very hard thing to describe this experience, so I'll take it step by step. The trip from hotel to the beach was terrible. It took our bus around 2h to get there. You can do it by sea as well but keep in mind that can be a very rough journey and can take up to 1h30min. Once we got there the place was literaly packed with locals that only wanted to sell you something or just steal something from you. While on the beach be sure to book a good place, otherwise you need to stay the whole day watching your stuff instead of enjoying the beach. The water was amaizing but: it was first time in my life when I had seen kids on jetsky and seen them falling from it. While they did that the jet sky did not stoped (they did not had keys loked to hands probably) and just continue until it reached the beach and stoped on the sand. Everything happend so quick that we felt like in a movie. It was just a blessing no one was injured. Later on three dogs started to fight on the beach. Some locals tried to stop the dogs but, this time, we felt like in a zoo. Conclusion: place is higly unsafe, locals are on a constant mood of trying to rob you or to steal you, everything is chaotic, from the moment you enter the parking lot and until you get in the water everything is just completely unsafe . Would strongly advise everyone to not go there. Find turquoise waters somewhere safer.
Dani HMDani HM
Playa blanca no se yo , habra que pedir el cambio de nombre a otro (y comparto todas las cosas negativas q han puesto). Algunos posibles nombres: - Playa Gasolina Te bañas en gasolina por las lanchas aparcadas y circulando al lado tuya, y con preferencia en pasar por ahí. En otros países tienen una zona de paso exclusiva poniendo al bajista por encima de eso y están alejados de los bañistas. No me extrañaría que algunas de las lanchas que van a toda leche hayan dado alguna vez a algún bañista en la cabeza... - Playa pierde 1 día de vacaciones: 2h en ir, 2-4h en volver depende del atasco. Y da gracias q no te roben algo de la mochila (porque asume que en la billetera será asi) o te quieran estafar en la vuelta. Ya si te roban el móvil, dinero o algo clave para el resto de tus vacaciones te han quitado más de 1 día... - Playa Timadores (Caso real de muchos tantos)Vas por la playa regateando precios de sombrillas, encuentras a un chico que te dice que te lo deja a 20k(desde 50k a 30k habiamos visto), despues de recorrer la playa ves q el sitio de 20k esta bien, sin mucha gente, te acomodas y pides la carta de precios( hacedlo siempre!!!!) Tardan como 20min de reloj y te lo traen en una foto del móvil que no se ve apenas e intento hacerla foto, no puedo y los leo sin más y son precios desorbitados(cerveza 15k cuando las he visto a 6k, mojitos 60k). Te sientes engañado, se lo dices y te vas cuando el dueño real del chiringuito te dice que me da el precio de verdad, que el chico q me trajo es un vendedor ambulante y que trae gente a cambio de comision de lo que consumas, de risa, de ahí que sea tannnn barato esos supuesros 20k. Después de esa nueva información ya te sientes engañado x2 , insultado y maltratado y se lo dices directamente donde no tiene otra que asentir y le ves avergonzado. ¿Como me voy a querer quedar despues de intentarme querer hacer esa jugada "maestra"? Nos vamos a otra por 30k, cerveza 8k y comida carisma para lo que es, pero quieres disfrutar de la playa ya. A la vuelta yendo al coche nos querían echar agua en los pies con una botella para "no manchar el coche", pregunto al conductor "pero esto es pagando porque visto lo visto?" Me dice "si..." mirando a otro lado también de la vergüenza de la situación. No comments. - Playa para llevar tu coche al taller al día siguiente: Los accesos en coche más vale tener un seguro o vigilar por donde vas porque para 100m te tiras 30min esquivando rocas, ni bien asfaltado. Como haya barro... - Playa sobrevalorada: No le doy 1 porque hay gente honesta y currante, y se sienten avergonzados por muchas conductas que ven,pero no hacer nada por arreglarlo lo q hace es empañar más ese "paraiso" caribeño sobreexplotado (ya ni queda ni arena del mar apenas de tantos sitios...) y quién sabe si en unos años llegará a 2 de valoración. Hay muchiiiiisimas mejores playas juntando todos los aspectos y sabiendo que lo quieres es desconectar.
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[Save + Share] 🇨🇴CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA TIPS🇨🇴The fam and I spent three glorious weeks in Cartagena last year and it was a vibe! Its tropical climes, long stretches of beautiful beaches, and lower cost of living made an extended visit a no brainer for our nomadic family. Cartagena is also the center of Afro-Colombian culture, which meant this Caribbean gyal felt right at home. ✊🏾 So here are some of my recs for what to see, do, eat, and experience in Cartagena: 🇨🇴 EXPLORE/VISIT: Historic walled city; San Felipe castle; neighborhoods of Getsemani, Bocagrande, Manga 🇨🇴 ACTIVITIES: Sunset cruise; boat tours to Rosario Island and Playa Blanca; Isla Baru, National Aviary 🇨🇴EAT & DRINK: Mar y Zielo; Hotel Movich; La Cevicheria; Lena y Carbon; Morena Restaurante; Bar 1805; Epoca [Sidebar: there are so many amazing places to eat that I might have to make a separate post 😅) 🇨🇴EXPERIENCE: Tour to Palenque to learn more about Afro-Colombian history and culture; cooking class and market tour; dance the night away in a retrofitted Chiva party bus; horse-drawn carriage ride at sunset around historic center 🇨🇴STAY: Choose accommodation within the walled city for shorter stays. For longer visits, vacation rental apartments around the Bocagrande area are where its at! We did this but I wouldn’t recommend the condo we rented because we had an ant infestation.😅 Have you been to Cartagena and/or are interested in going? P.S.: Colombia is beautiful, y’all. It’s so unfair that most people don’t get to experience it due to outdated perceptions about the country being “scary”. P.S.S.: it’s ColOmbia with an “O”, not Columbia. Just a minor pet peeve of mine…😜 #colombia #travelreels #traveltips #cartagenacolombia #blackpassportstamps #girlslovetravel #2024travel #bucketlist #bucketlisttravel
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Very hard thing to describe this experience, so I'll take it step by step. The trip from hotel to the beach was terrible. It took our bus around 2h to get there. You can do it by sea as well but keep in mind that can be a very rough journey and can take up to 1h30min. Once we got there the place was literaly packed with locals that only wanted to sell you something or just steal something from you. While on the beach be sure to book a good place, otherwise you need to stay the whole day watching your stuff instead of enjoying the beach. The water was amaizing but: it was first time in my life when I had seen kids on jetsky and seen them falling from it. While they did that the jet sky did not stoped (they did not had keys loked to hands probably) and just continue until it reached the beach and stoped on the sand. Everything happend so quick that we felt like in a movie. It was just a blessing no one was injured. Later on three dogs started to fight on the beach. Some locals tried to stop the dogs but, this time, we felt like in a zoo. Conclusion: place is higly unsafe, locals are on a constant mood of trying to rob you or to steal you, everything is chaotic, from the moment you enter the parking lot and until you get in the water everything is just completely unsafe . Would strongly advise everyone to not go there. Find turquoise waters somewhere safer.
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Dan Lucian Ilie

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Playa blanca no se yo , habra que pedir el cambio de nombre a otro (y comparto todas las cosas negativas q han puesto). Algunos posibles nombres: - Playa Gasolina Te bañas en gasolina por las lanchas aparcadas y circulando al lado tuya, y con preferencia en pasar por ahí. En otros países tienen una zona de paso exclusiva poniendo al bajista por encima de eso y están alejados de los bañistas. No me extrañaría que algunas de las lanchas que van a toda leche hayan dado alguna vez a algún bañista en la cabeza... - Playa pierde 1 día de vacaciones: 2h en ir, 2-4h en volver depende del atasco. Y da gracias q no te roben algo de la mochila (porque asume que en la billetera será asi) o te quieran estafar en la vuelta. Ya si te roban el móvil, dinero o algo clave para el resto de tus vacaciones te han quitado más de 1 día... - Playa Timadores (Caso real de muchos tantos)Vas por la playa regateando precios de sombrillas, encuentras a un chico que te dice que te lo deja a 20k(desde 50k a 30k habiamos visto), despues de recorrer la playa ves q el sitio de 20k esta bien, sin mucha gente, te acomodas y pides la carta de precios( hacedlo siempre!!!!) Tardan como 20min de reloj y te lo traen en una foto del móvil que no se ve apenas e intento hacerla foto, no puedo y los leo sin más y son precios desorbitados(cerveza 15k cuando las he visto a 6k, mojitos 60k). Te sientes engañado, se lo dices y te vas cuando el dueño real del chiringuito te dice que me da el precio de verdad, que el chico q me trajo es un vendedor ambulante y que trae gente a cambio de comision de lo que consumas, de risa, de ahí que sea tannnn barato esos supuesros 20k. Después de esa nueva información ya te sientes engañado x2 , insultado y maltratado y se lo dices directamente donde no tiene otra que asentir y le ves avergonzado. ¿Como me voy a querer quedar despues de intentarme querer hacer esa jugada "maestra"? Nos vamos a otra por 30k, cerveza 8k y comida carisma para lo que es, pero quieres disfrutar de la playa ya. A la vuelta yendo al coche nos querían echar agua en los pies con una botella para "no manchar el coche", pregunto al conductor "pero esto es pagando porque visto lo visto?" Me dice "si..." mirando a otro lado también de la vergüenza de la situación. No comments. - Playa para llevar tu coche al taller al día siguiente: Los accesos en coche más vale tener un seguro o vigilar por donde vas porque para 100m te tiras 30min esquivando rocas, ni bien asfaltado. Como haya barro... - Playa sobrevalorada: No le doy 1 porque hay gente honesta y currante, y se sienten avergonzados por muchas conductas que ven,pero no hacer nada por arreglarlo lo q hace es empañar más ese "paraiso" caribeño sobreexplotado (ya ni queda ni arena del mar apenas de tantos sitios...) y quién sabe si en unos años llegará a 2 de valoración. Hay muchiiiiisimas mejores playas juntando todos los aspectos y sabiendo que lo quieres es desconectar.
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7y

I’ve seen a lot better beaches in the Caribbean but this one is most likely best option if you are in Cartagena and want to go on the beach. And it is a true blue water beach.

You have to be tough nerved if you want to go to this beach. First if you go with a rental car park on the street and not in the “paid” parking lot. They will try to rip you off 15.000 pesos for parking. The so called street is a very bad gravel road with lots of dust. Get used to it in Colombia.

On the exit from the main road to the road to the beach we were attacked by a bunch of aggressive black guys who even followed us on the motorcycle all the way. One guy followed us all the way to the beach trying to talk to you, befriend you or take you to some other guy who will sell you a cabaña or a place on the beach. It was super hard to get rid of him.

Other thing that you should get used in Colombia is the annoying vendors trying to sell you just anything. On the other hand you can get an inexpensive dose of beer, ice cream or smokes just anytime and anywhere. They do get very annoying.

I strongly recommend to not go to this beach unless you speak fluent Spanish. But If you are adventurous then be aware and don’t fall for scam, don’t talk to anyone much. Don’t hurry to pay for their “services”.

Overall I found the beach quite safe except that the jet ski riders are ready to run you over just anytime. Understanding about safety in Colombia is a lot different than in North America or...

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2y

DON’T GO HERE! My boyfriend and I are staying in Cartegena and decided to go to Playa Blanca for the day. We didn’t go with a tour opperator because that is not our style. The beach is nice, white sand blue water, but had horrible experience. We laid down on beds and paid 40.000 cop for the whole day for two wich seems like a good deal. Our time there was okay-ish although there are a lot of people trying to sell you stuff, jetski’s scooting up and down wiht all there fumes, but we tried to enjoy. We drank one limonade natural and my boyfriend ate a sandwich then came the bill 240.000 COP and we already paid for the beds. Normal lemonades we’re 100.000COP, well no way i’m going to pay that. So we gave him 100.000 COP and packed our stuff. Then he grabbed my boyfriend slipper as bargain and started to be very angry. I was very angry and strict with him that we are not paying more. Than he started to threaten us and walk with us to the parkinglot and said we would be in great trouble there if we don’t pay and my boyfriend saw him make a gun gesture at him. I have never ever paid 240.000 COP in our 5 weeks here Colombia for a drink and a sandwich, and it wasn’t like we’re in the maladives there. My boyfriend paid him 50.000 more and then he stopped and we took a taxi. Horrible end to our day. Watch out when you go here! Ask the menu when you get something and ask for other prices that you might have to pay before you...

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6y

Terrible, dirty tourist trap would summarise it, totally misled by the travel agency. The photos we were shown told a completely different story as to what we experienced.

After arriving at Playa Blanca we were to take a boat to Playa Tranquilla (heavily implied to be independent from elsewhere, it was only 5 minutes down from the main area, we were told you couldn't walk to it).

We were greeted by gratis piña coladas made especially by the nose picking bartender (he appeared to be wiping on his t-shirt for a quick snack later) .

The day was passed telling vender after vender that we were not interested in buying fake sunglasses and contaminated seafood. Swimming with plastic was also pretty fun.

If we hadn't been put off our day by now then lunch would have been the icing on the cake. Raw chicken was accompanied by swarms of flies and feral cats. The chicken had a nice rustic 3 day old taste to it if that's what you are in to.

We were pretty much waiting to leave by this point, the hesitance to use the waterless and urine filled toilets made us more eager to catch the boat.

Our departure was smooth from the beach, we were only delayed 40 minutes on the bus due to a lady having her passport and personal belongings stolen. Tells you a lot about the place!

I don't think I need to delve further into this, total tourist scam. If only we had taken photos!

Thank you for the great experience,...

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