Visiting Colombia

Hotel Charleston Santa Clara – Cartagena

With new boutique hotels opening all the time in Cartagena, it’s hard to keep track of which are the best of the boutique hotels in the city.

Here are a couple of our favorite boutique hotels in Cartagena:

Casa El Carretero

restaurant across our house

Here is a list of what I consider to be the best restaurants in Cartagena. I’ve eaten at all of them, and they all had great local cuisine, good wine and cocktails, and friendly service.

La Vitrola

La Casa de las Palmas

La Cocina de Soccoro

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light

Because it is equatorial, the weather in Colombia doesn’t vary much with the seasons, so it shouldn’t be too much of a deciding factor in when you time your visit to Colombia.

The weather in Colombia on the coast equatorial. That means that the weather is hot and the climate tropical. The rainy season on the Colombian coast runs from May to November, but varies with altitude.

Inland towards Bogota the weather is consistently cool throughout the year. Due to its mountainous location and very high altitude, the weather in Bogota is perennially fresh, with cool days and cold nights.

The best time of year to visit Colombia is from December to March and July to August.