Day 49. Colombians have a sweet tooth. Specialities include Dulce de Leche, sweet caramelly fudginess fashioned into the shape of various objects including coins, wheels, pigs and most famously, baby dolls. There is a street dedicated to the sale of all kinds of sweet things called Calle Lugar Pozo Dulce (street of the place with the sweet well). Old and crumbly Colombian ladies sit beside their stalls rolling and preparing fresh sweets between sales.
Sweeties
Sweet doll, scary but tasty. Annie likes biting its feet whereas Safe goes straight for the head!
An interesting concept here in Cartagena is that of the “phone call seller” who usually has the word Llamadas written on the back of his or her jacket. The streets are filled with mobile phones chained to small tables, or just as common, the phone call seller will wear a hunting jacket full of various mobile phones. When you want to make a phone call, you use the correct phone according to the network you’re calling then pay the appropriate fee depending on how long your call was.
Phone call sellers