De viaje por curramba...carnavaleando

The most wonderful experience that I shared with my sister and daughters was to get to know Barranquilla and enjoy its traditional festivals, such as the Barranquilla Carnival, recognized nationally and internationally. Enjoy their traditional parades of floats and typical costumes was very exc       

The trip that my sister and mishijas took towards Curramba was by land, to delight us with the beautiful vegetation of the road to Barranquilla. The pure air is very welcoming. We left by the corozal road towards the palmitos, we followed until the bongo until of earth land of the tobacco, of the recognized festival of bagpipes, soon we entered the department of bolivar exactly in the carmen of bolivar where a stop is made to rest and to buy the typical delicacies such as avocado, chepacorinas cookies and traditional sweets, then opens the doors to us san juan artesanal land where the sale of beautiful hammocks abounds, the cradle of the parties in corralejas segui until the toll of squid where the department of the Atlantico then we pass through santo tomas, suan, and malambo to then enter the metropolitan area of beautiful Barranquilla.

Colombian Port Since its inauguration in 1893, and until the opening of Bocas de Ceniza in 1936, the pier of Puerto Colombia, built by the Cuban engineer Francisco Javier Cisneros, was the main maritime terminal of the country thanks, among other things, to the fact that it was connected to the railroad tracks. Part of that history can be covered in this municipality near Barranquilla, Colombia. ROMANTIC MUSEUM An old mansion of republican style donated by Carmen Freud, daughter of Julius Freud, a German American Jew arrived in Barranquilla at the beginning where they are kept as memory of pastimes, objects of the history of the city. There are, as testimony of an era, the costumes of the Queen of Carnival, a replica of the old street called Camellón Abello, Alfonso Fuenmayor's typewriter where Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez wrote his novel La Hojarasca, some letters of the liberator Simon Bolivar, photographs, discs and collections of newspapers of yest

Typical dishes of Barranquilla. 1- Rice of mullet The rice of lisa is the most typical food that can be tasted in Barranquilla. The main ingredient, apart from rice, is a marine fish called smooth, very common in the area of the mouth of the Magdalena River. Before cooking, the mullets have to be dried and salted. Later they are joined to the stew of rice and vegetables, and cumin is added. It is very common to buy this rice in street stalls, accompanied by whey and cassava 2- Bocachico in kid This food is based on fish. In this case it is the bocachico, a fish that lives in rivers and swamps. To prepare it first you have to clean the fish, removing the viscera and leaving it open through the abdomen. Then stir-fried vegetables are introduced, mainly onion, tomato and sweet pepper. Finally, it is roasted with charcoal. 3- Rice with chipi chipi The chipi chipi is a small mollusk very typical of the coast in Colombia resembling a small clam. This typical