El Banco to Cartegena

 El Banco to Cartegena  

My hotel in El Banco...

...and the view from the bottom of the street at 6am in the morning, so early as we had 350 kilometres to drive to reach Cartegena. 

                                       
The whole area  here is low lying and subject to frequent flooding in the rainy season. There was an ancient civilisation here that dug ditches, heaping the spoil into ridges and planting their crops on teh tops of the ridges. 

A view up the river from a bridge. 

A flooded field.  

More flooded fields. 

Another view from another bridge. 

Flooded fields and grazing land. 

But we were soon driving into the outskirts of Cartegena....

...past some of the cranes of the container port...

...and the giant petrochemical complex to the south of the city before we reached the ufban fringe and worked our way to the truck park to leave the truck and get taxis into the centre of the city and my last night in Colombia.