Thursday, our port of call was Santa Marta, Columbia. This was the first Spanish settlement in Columbia founded in 1525. The population is a little over 1/2 a million. Our walking excursion today was "Latin Beats & Historical City Walk".
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| First color of sunrise. |
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| The mountains of northern Columbia coming into view. |
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| Passing a small island as we entered the bay |
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| There was also an AIDA Cruise ship in port with us. |
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| This is an industrial port. We docked beside a coal shipping facility. Coal bisquettes is the second largest export of Caolumbia. |
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| Excursion and shuttle busses waiting for us., |
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| Wattering down the piles of coal to minimize the dust from it. |
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| Starting out on our walking tour. |
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| Statue of Rodrigo Bastidas, founder of Santa Marta |
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| The building where we had our latin music and dance , snack and dink occurred. |
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| Learning a local latin dance |
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| The musicians |
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| Sone street scenes |
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| Statue of General Francisco de Paula Santander who fought alonside Simon Bolivar |
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| A Catholic Church on the square |
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| Other buildings around the square |
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| Simon Bolivar statue |
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| Bolivar Park |
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| On shuttle ride back to the ship (they don't allow you to walk in the industrial port so shuttles must be used) coal briquettes being deposited for loading onto ships. |
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| The 2 cruise ships in port today, Ours is the black and white one on the other side of the AIDAluna. |
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| More street scenes |
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| Back to the ship |
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| Strongs winds required that each of the ships needed 2 tugs to help get out of the port safely. |
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| Away from the pier. |
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| Sailing out of the bay. |
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| Not much of a sunset tonight |
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| a bit of color. |
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| The colors 1/2 hour after the sun set were prettier. |
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| almost gone |