The first time, when I was interested in the country of Colombia was my husband got an invitation from a couple of friends who work there or live in that country. After visiting there, I paid more interest in that country.
Later when we made a cruise trip to Panama Cannel, the cruise ship, Princess embarked on the city of Cartagena for a few hours and we visited the museum and drove around that city by sightseeing bus.

Later I was very much interested in Colombia writer who became world famous after he was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize.
The first book I read was "Living to Tell the Tale" and after that "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The Autumn of the Patriarch" the last book for me I read his book was "Love in the Time of Cholera."

In the book, Love in the Time of Cholera a young man named Florentino Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza secretly yet, she marries a wealthy Doctor, his heart broken, his mind had always loved her, since he was a very romantic man.
After waiting for more than 50 years, one day suddenly the Doctor who is Ariza's husband fell from the ladder. The reason was a bird flew into their house and he tried to catch the bird yet, the bird flew away and he lost his life.

In the meantime, Florentina Ariza became the owner of a steamship that cruised the river of Magdalena as a passenger ship.
Florentina Ariza did not lose this time, he attended the funeral of the Doctor the husband of Fermina Daza, and announced publicly to Ariza of his love for her. After they married and on their honeymoon riding his ship on the river of Magdalena.

He asked his crew members to put a flag on the ship with his sign on the flag Cholera.
That means if one of the passengers has Cholera, the ship does not have to stop at every port to take customers.
They just cruised the river of Magdalena freely without disturbance.

After I read that book, I was very much interested in that river, yet, I never had visited that river.
A couple of days ago, I looked around the advertisement and I read the article about the year 2024 for the first time,
First-ever Luxury River Cruised to set sail on Colombia's upscale river cruise line Ama Water will sail Colombia's Magdalena River from Cartagena to Barranquilla starting in 2024.

I could not believe my reading and I thought about that book written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, after he died, still he helped his country's benefit. Someday, before too late, I like on that cruise ship. 

2nd week of Jan. 2024

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