{"id":6964,"date":"2015-06-09T01:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:11:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:11:38","slug":"day-trip-to-the-islas-del-rosario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/06\/09\/tagesausflug-zu-den-islas-del-rosario\/","title":{"rendered":"Day trip to the Islas del Rosario"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Moderate boat tour to the Corales del Rosario y San Bernardo National Park with swimming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are supposed to be at Molle by 8:30 a.m. After the rest of the tour price has been paid, it is said for the first time <strong>waiting. And plenty of it!<\/strong> All other boats - and there are many - cast off in front of us until we <strong>finally at 10 a.m.<\/strong> instead of the promised 9 o&#039;clock finally start. As a result, most of the tour participants are already annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We now take the speedboat out to Isla Rosario for around an hour with a stop at the beautiful but very touristy Playa Blanca. First stop is that <strong>Oceanario<\/strong>, which was built in the natural habitat of the animals. Here you have to pay additional entry to see dolphins, sharks and other sea creatures in <strong>hardly species-appropriate enclosures<\/strong> to be able to observe or for one <strong>Rent snorkel equipment totally exorbitant price<\/strong>. It was clear to us from the start that we wanted to bathe during this time. Not only we were promised that during this time you can also take a bath, which turns out to be wrong. So almost half the group of the boat is waiting at the pier and is very angry! The captain only reacts with incomprehension!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#039;re going back to <strong>Playa Blanca<\/strong>where food is waiting first. What still just works for me, doesn&#039;t work with Niki&#039;s gluten intolerance of expected masses and others wait forever for their fried fish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least the wonderful Caribbean-blue water and the fairly populated sandy beach are somewhat of a compensation for that <strong>miserable tour<\/strong>. We would have better just taken a water taxi here and had a leisurely day at the beach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in Cartagena we replenish our cash reserves and have a delicious Asian meal. Then we have to pack our things for tomorrow&#039;s onward journey.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Moderate boat tour to the Corales del Rosario y San Bernardo National Park with swimming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>We are supposed to be at Molle by 8:30 a.m. After the rest of the tour price has been paid, it is said for the first time <strong>waiting. And plenty of it!<\/strong> All other boats - and there are many - cast off in front of us until we <strong>finally at 10 a.m.<\/strong> instead of the promised 9 o&#039;clock finally start. As a result, most of the tour participants are already annoyed.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,1982,2083],"tags":[1985,2067,2085,2090,2097,2098,2099,2100,2101],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-kolumbien","category-cartagena-de-indias","tag-kolumbien","tag-karibik","tag-cartagena-de-indias","tag-cartagena","tag-islas-del-rosario","tag-parque-nacional-natural-corales-del-rosario-y-san-bernardo","tag-oceanario-de-las-islas-del-rosario","tag-islas-del-coral","tag-delfine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}