Last night, I went to Centennial Park just outside the old city of Cartagena. I had seen capuchin monkeys here on earlier days and had heard there were also sloths. While there with the monkeys, the 3 women from the tour I took in the morning to the Bazurto market happened to wander by and see me. We each got pictures of the monkeys (which are released pets) and then went to find a sloth. We saw one and got pictures but he was high in a tree.
So this morning I went out early and looked for the sloth and a guy walked up and pointed me to the tree he was currently in, right next to the one I was currently examining. I followed the sloth from tree to tree for about an hour and a half as he slowly crossed from tree to tree to get from one area of the park to near the edge of the park, using 7 or 8 different trees along the route. A woman from Uruguay joined me watching the sloth and then we got a brief glimpse of a baby sloth (again high in a tree). She also wanted to see the monkeys and iguanas, and we found 2 iguanas but could not find the monkeys at the time.
There are also red squirrels in the park, as well as many birds. The local homeless can point out where the sloths and monkeys are most of the time, just give them a bill or two. A security guard did come to hang around while I was out there alone and much of the time the other woman was with me. There are many homeless, but I never felt at all threatened by them.
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