So I was walking around the city landmarks in old town Cartagena, Colombia today with some new friends I met at the hostel I am currently staying at.  We decided to walk through a park on our way back so that we could watch Argentina play against Croatia - *little did we know how the game would turn out...*

However, as we did begin to walk through I noticed that the tree had some claws sticking out, which is weird and most probably part of the tree.  **THEN BOOM!** A god-damn sloth sitting at the base of a tree in the middle of a busy park in the middle of old town Cartagena... *WHAT..?!?!* I was somewhat taken back to say the least and decided to attempt to take a few photos. However, I only had my wide angle lens on me and not my telephoto lens, which meant this is the best up close shot I could manage. I wanted to get closer and put the camera a lot closer to this slow moving mammal BUT I also did not want to add any stress to this beautiful guy, as he went about his day.
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<center>**Not going to lie - pretty awesome way to start my first day in Cartagena**</center>
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<center>[Click here to see where this sloth was in Cartagena!](http://steemitworldmap.com?post=sloth-in-the-middle-of-a-park)
(!steemitworldmap 10.426466 lat -75.548263 long sloth at the base of the tree d3scr)</center>
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