Cali has three museums, three big churches and according to “the book” not much else. It does have a very nice Mall, Chichi Chape, that can be reached on foot along a busy polluted main road. There are quite a few interesting shops that offer a wide variety of interior decorating designs. This is only from observing the show windows. One shop had very appealing furniture and figurines. A very powerful capuccino can be had at a Juan Valdez franchise. Did not buy a Juan Valdez t-shirt! Hope I don’t regret this. I have given away all the other t-shirts bought, [View Full Entry]

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Two hours from Cali on the heavily militarised Buenaventura road sit several uninspiring wooden shacks. Yet behind this seemingly dull facade lies the magical village of San Cipriano. Its just over the crystal clear river and down a set of disused train tracks. As we (Mark, Darragh and I) got off the bus we were greeted by the young athletic Oscar who led us over a rope bridge to a set of train tracks. But here the trains don't run anymore, in fact they don't run anywhere in Colombia, and the villagers of San Cipriano were plunged back into isolation in [View Full Entry]

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I watched as the 8 year boy ran lithely down the slope with my bag. His mud covered feet deftly moving whilst I slipped and slid my way towards the bottom. I began to wonder if I was going to see it again. Months on the road had lodged a fair chunk of wariness and distrust in my psyche. Sadly I had heard too many stories of being ripped off, held up and taken advantage of. But there he was, patiently waiting and no doubt wondering why I was taking so long. He reached for my hand, my bag still securely [View Full Entry]

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Well its been a very busy week! We left San Agustin and got a bus to Cali which took absolutely ages as at one point we got stuck in a massive hole in the road and had to dig ourselves out. Well I didn't personally help but it did look pretty tiring! We arrived in Cali which was so HOT, we spent the afternoon relaxing and went out to salsa in the evening. The main strip was very deceptive as everywhere looked busy but was very dead inside so we didn't have a wild night. The next day we got [View Full Entry]

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pic blog from cali South America » Colombia » Cali By Niloc May 29th 2007 Colin Newcomerhere´s a few pics from cali, where I just had a few days but had an amazing time. Went there with my buddy Ed from NYC who ended up stayin there. Man, it was crazy! Full circle, from California to Cali, colombia. peace may 2007 la paz [View Full Entry]

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From start to Present Antonio Martinez-VasquezI've been in Colombia for a few days now; the first time was about 20 years ago(I'm 53yrs. young) it isn´t as dangerous as the US State Department states. Just use common sense that's all. I'm from Puerto Rico so I'm a native speaker of spanish (not to be confused with Spanglish). So I pretty much fit in....even in Morocco (since I'm a muslim) Stay away from these condesending idiots who took an english course from the national tourism department(such as in Costa Rica) and the knucklehead swears he/she can hold a conversation and sounds [View Full Entry]

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Hola amigos y amigas! Today we went to a trip we were planing to go for a long time, from a last time... go to the lake which supposed to be beautiful. So, we wake in a cloudy day, opposite of days during last week, but we anyway went... we got on we our friend from company, mauricio, which also organized all thing, talk to the driver, chosse recreation ground,... We drove rof about 2 hours in one direction, about 120 km from Cali, up to the hills, the way drivers drove, i guess you can experience that only in south [View Full Entry]

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Well, hello again! Today starts as normal day - of course a day after saturday...:). Breakefast was fine. Then me and Bojan decide to go to a hill behind the Cali. On top there are three crosses, and its looked small... but as always, no soup it's eaten so hot as it was cooked. Se, we start from bottom, the only way always, around 9.30. And it was already bloody hot. First we were searching where to go, but whene we got there, to the road to top we knewed that that is the right road. We were suprised that so [View Full Entry]

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Well! After few months I am back to Cali, Colombia. After a long trip from Europe - Ljubljana we arrived to final destination for next 35 days - at least so long. The plane here was quite good - Air France is better then Lufthansa, you get more drinks.... Well, 26 hours on planes and airports you're littlle tired, but not for few more drinks, of course we (me and 4 other guys) have to said hello to hotel staff..., we also meet another friend wainting us at the hotel. We went next day working (e.g. Saturday), finished a litlle earlier [View Full Entry]

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Cali was what I would say the first experience I’d had in a long time of feeling that I could be at home. The third biggest city in Columbia not only had white, brown, black people with blue, green and even yellow eyes but seemed to not have a stereotypical type of person. Then to top it off the shopping malls had supermarkets like Asda, Diesel, Dunkin donughts and many other shops you would find in any good English city. Well I only intending spending a week here but I soon became too comfortable (not sure how as it was by [View Full Entry]

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