Mompox_Cien años de soledad

Down in the jungle, in Colombia, on the river Magdalena, stands Mompox. While you walk on the riverfront along the side of beautiful colonial porches, sometimes you can see the boats full of goods docking or shipping out towards north and all the sailors and workers carrying cases and boxes around. Then you look around and the calm and stillness make you remember that after the river shifted and the main port became Magangué, Mompox was left alone and time stopped. Until you go out from the town center and mud replaces the stone-paved walk and the only boats you see are these long-shaped iron motor-boats laying on the riverside or slowly moving along the current.