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Pos: here
Loc: Cartagena
Acc: Navy room

There was no electricity in the morning for one hour, and soon my sweat was running down my body and adding to the puddles on the floor of the now heavily melting frozen air condition. Above my floor level, I assume the airconditions must also be frozen, as it is always dripping through the ceiing on several spots. Fortunately my bed is dry, but I have to watch where I put my things!

I eventually rather went food shopping, and Uli was picking me up that I don’t have to bother carrying the many bags home myself. Thanks! And thank goodness I have a fridge. Meanwhile electricity was fortunately back. I was so starved for different food I ate on the spot a whole yummy cheese baguette plus a whole camembert, yoghurt, many Blueberries, Physalies, Maracujas and in the morning already a whole pineapple. And I found again my delicious
heat-“white-chocolate” – a non-melting candy made of coconut, sugar, milkpowder and whatever. I first discovered that kind in Atacames/ Ecuador. Delicious!

I also had to realize my one camera was now stopped working completely, unfortunately the one with the built in charger. So once down on batteries, the other one using the same batteries is also useless…Uli and I were searching the afternoon for a similar one, but no luck yet.

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He also took me on a sight seeing drive up north, looking at the upcoming beaches (all easy!) and stopping at a nature spectacle I haven’t seen so far – a mud volcanoe! This is a small hill of mud of about 15 meters, and on top of the center the hot mud forms a pool about 2 x2 m where you can have a mud bath, well temperatured! We both refrained from hat pleasure, as the rinse off is only on a nearby shallow inland lake shore…unfortunately also no other “bath guests” were just in the “pool”…very interesting place!

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