Phot-o' the Day: Boy in a Turret, Cartagena, Colombia

A boy. In a turret. In Cartagena, Colombia.

This is from inside the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas complex, the massive hilltop fortress overlooking the old port area of Cartagena, Colombia. While touring the fortress, I wanted to go inside one of the turrets to see what I could see. But the I chose was occupied. And he was having more fun inside that turret than I would have had, so it was his.

Visited May 2015.

Phot-o' the day: Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas, Cartagena, Colombia

This is the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas, in Cartagena, Colombia.  I visited in May 2015.

This was the fort built to protect the harbor in Cartagena during the Spanish era.  Which did the harbor need to be protected by such a big, impenetrable fort?  This was the main port in the New World for shipping all that Incan gold back to Spain.  Peru, being on the Pacific side, was somewhat impractical for purposes of providing a shipping port for such a valuable commodity.