In a world that full of depressing stories like global warming, financial melt-down, mad men shooting in college campuses, and fanatics blowing up everyone everywhere, we need some feel-good stories and feel-good places somewhere somehow for the contra-balancing effect and to reassure ourselves that humanity is not yet in a one way dead-end street, so I went to Colombia. After a slew of bad press from the yesteryears, I heard Colombia had turned around, quickly. This time, I was almost certain that I would be one of the privilege few witnessing the renaissance of a country. First stop, Cartagena de Indias. A little did I know that I was too late again because it is thriving with touri
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