Enjoy a vacation in Cartagena de Indias is a plan that nobody would want to miss. Touring the city is a fascinating experience for those who enjoy the tropical weather, the history, and the colonial charm that the city offers. The magic of this place is in its people, its traditions and its colors.
Picturesque facades garnished with a beautiful and exotic flora that gives a unique touch to the houses make people fall enchanted when they walk by the streets of the Historical Center and Getsemaní. We can find from simple creepers growing between the bars of windows and balconies, to fragrant jasmine that perfumes the neighborhoods, making the stay of the visitors something taken out of a dream. A walk enjoyed by people from all ages, cities and nationalities.
With colors as vivid as the Caribbean itself we find geraniums, always bright and beautiful thanks to the weather of Cartagena, a flower that enjoy the sun as much as the tourists on the beaches of the city. Almost always we can appreciate them in red tones, like the colors of the sky in a Cartagena sunset. Without a doubt a beautiful plant. As bright as the geraniums, it is really easy to find, hanging from the beautiful colonial balconies, the surfinias, an ideal summer plant for outdoors, with a flower that, although is mostly violet, can be found in other colors of the same spectrum. They look splendid thanks to their foliage, covering and decorating the architecture that Cartagena preserves from ancient times.
The visual charm offered by the flowers of Cartagena is unmatched. The pictures that can be taken from this show can be used as postcards, because they represent the essence of the inhabitants of the city, the joy and the tropical spark that characterizes them.
The beautiful trinitarians also grow in “La Heroica”, engulfing with their delicate flowers the windows, balconies and roofs of these fascinating houses, hostels and hotels located in the Historical Center and the first neighborhood that was born outside the old walls, Getsemaní.
The trinitaria flowers pose on the facades with their soft tones and fragile petals, and, even though they are a perfect choice to decorate, this plant also has a great medicinal use to treat respiratory affections. In pots and gardens, we can appreciate the coral plants with their multi-color flowers, growing small but no less beautiful than other bigger ones like the popular flower of “bonche”, with its striking pistils on sight, or the Indian orange blossom that at certain moments of the year blooms in white tones and the falling petals remit to the snow… Fascinating!
There is no doubt that Cartagena de Indias is a fertile land and it has the ideal weather for a wide variety of plants to develop and bloom radiantly. It also allows that the natural beauty garnishes and highlights the architectonical attractive of this warm city.
In summary, a visit to Cartagena will be filled with flowers of different colors, sizes, shapes and fragrances. An experience that you will not get tired of enjoying.