"Taking It Easy In Cartagena" Koala_bear’s photos around Cartagena, Colombia

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Cartagena, Colombia by TravelPod blogger Koala_bear titled "Taking It Easy In Cartagena" Koala_bear’s travel blog entry: "There are three obvious types of people in Cartagena; Gringos, cops and dealers. There are others of course, going about their daily lives, but as you walk through Getsemani it seems that everyone wants to sell you cocaine or weed. Um, apart from the cops of course, they just want to stop and search you in the hopes of finding cocaine or weed so they can freak the **** out of you and march you to the ATM so you can withdraw their bribe. Hilarious. I met a couple that had got busted with a heap of weed but instead of arresting them, the cop just put his hat over the stash, negotiated a small bribe, took a couple of buds for himself, gave them the rest of their weed back and sent them on their way. They were lucky, a bloke I met got randomly stopped and searched along with an American backpacker he was walking with. He had nothing on him so he was fine but she had a bag of coke so she was marched to the cash point to withdraw her day's maximum for the bribe. Dodgy much? The dealers are pretty forward but actually not too irritating, it only takes a polite, "no, gracias" or two before they give up. Gringos are in abundance and anyway, they supplement their income by shopping the people they just sold to to the cops who give them a kickback out of the bribe. So yeah, if you're partial to Colombian ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 1m 47s Date Found: Wed, Mar 09 2011 12:26 AM Category: Travel Date Produced: Tue, Mar 08 2011 6:22 PM View Count: 0