cartagena

so i told my parents that i was going to sail to ecuador, but really i flew to cartagena, colombia. cartegena is really awesome. it's another cool colonial city filled with spanish architecture from the 1700s. we're staying in the less nice part of town and a lot of the buildings are pretty deteriorated, but closer to city center everything is really well maintained.
colombia is supposed to be well know for it's exotic fruit, so today i bought a mango from this street vendor. he sliced it up and sprinkled salt on top of it, which sounds gross, but it was actually pretty good. the mango wasn't super ripe, so with salt it ended up being a crunchy, sour, salty, sweet kind of a snack. the pieces of fruit on the cart that look like sweet potatoes are called zapote. i tried one in guatemala, but it was kind of yucky poo nasty pants. sort of reminded me of persimons. all of cartagena is surrounded by this huge wall that got built up a long time ago cuz the city kept getting attacked by pirates. also there is a huge fort at one end of town that is supposed to be like 400 or 500 years old. we're going to go visit it right now. i think there are tunnels you can crawl around in. love,
-jessie