Cartagena
Worth seeing in and around Cartagena
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Getting to Cartagena
- Airports
- Rafael Nuñez (CTG), 5 km · Ernesto Cortissoz (BAQ), 95 km
- Stations
- Rafael Núñez International Airport, 5.3 km
- Barranquilla → Cartagena100 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · COL$22,450–29,950
- Medellín → Cartagena462 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · COL$262,470–407,190
- Bogota → Cartagena662 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · COL$285,170–442,210
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cartagena
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cartagena. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCartagena is an important port for charter boats between Colombia and Panama.
- Go nextMany colectivos passing by the India Catalina can let you just at their door for COP$1,500.
- Go nextTake a bus for COP$1,600 (March 2013), from India Catalina (Avenida Venezuela), if you get off of the bus at the end of the ride you can rent a canoe which brings you to a nice beach (Playa de Oro) passing trough lagoons and mangroves – pay for the boat once you are back.
From Wikivoyage: Cartagena (Colombia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Cartagena
- Puerta del Relojcity gate in Cartagena, Colombia6.7 km
- Bolívar Statehuman settlement in Colombia5.3 km
- El Cabreroneighborhood in Cartagena, Colombia6.3 km