re: Cartagena, Colombia

shite dude, 12 hours in Bogota is not a lot of time.

I didn't spend a ton of time in Bogota, but my friend's family drove us up here as soon as we landed:

LINK

Awesome views. If you're staying the night -- the nightlife there is awesome. Just be prepared to see some of the hottest women you've ever seen before -- I'm now dating a latina because of it


eta: museums anywhere in South America are awesome. We have zero appreciation here for any of the amazing history in South America because we were never taught any of it here. This was the coolest museum we went to in Colombia LINK

Check out the fort in Cartagena. That fort was the site of many big battles between the spanish/british/french and even pirates.

Also, you can buy a bunch of amazing street art in Colombia. I collect street art from all the places I've been to in Central/South America.

Final tip: just be safe and don't hop into random taxi cabs. I would use an app called easy taxi -- used that all over Colombia and Ecuador.