Volcan de Lodo El Totumo (Mud Volcano)

Okaaaaaay! I'll do it again...maybe?

As part of a 50th birthday trip to Cartegena, 9 of us went to El Totumo and had a great experience buuut boy was it a lil scary. So my 1st experience at a mud volcano was in St. Lucia which had a few...

What You Need to Know about the Volcano Mudbath!

Now this was a fascinating experience. There is a geothermal mud bath that is an experience unlike anything I have ever done. The mud was warm, not hot, and there was no odor. It looks like everyo...

When you are in the neighbourhood (Cartagena)

The title suggest that we were staying in Cartagena and took one of the many organised trips to this mud-vulcano. We didn't do that. We rented a car because we were heading for Santa Marta and beyond....

Check this off your bucket list

This showed up on review videos and online trip reports as a must do activity in Cartagena - it is quite a trip to the location far outside the city - we could not stay beyond 5 minutes in the mud poo...

Soothing clay bath in a rather strange situation

Quite an entertaining day trip, with the caveat that this is not, in fact, a volcano, but a mound enclosing a box filled with very soothing liquid clay. Floating in the clay was a lot of fun, and it d...