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Published: November 21st 2006
village tour
a coach ride for only 15.000 $ My third trip to
Santa Fe was basically pretty much the same as the previous ones from the touristic point of view- travelled 80 km north from Medellin, roughly one hour to get to a land with about 30ยบ C, at only about 50 m above see level. Kind of reminded me of Santa Marta and it wasn't good at all. As much as I love Colombia, I guess SM will always be a trauma for me and it will be difficult to get over it. Nice 5 hours spent there on Sunday afternoon in very nice company- Samuel (Switzerland), Ranko (Holland)- trainees like me with AIESEC, Caro, Camilo ( Sweden)- my classmate in Spanish and a Colombian buddy of theirs.
The baroque architecture of the Santa Barbara church and the colonial little houses impress me every time I see them. We went to
Puente del Occidente again, this time crossing it by motor-taxi, this strange little motorcycle with a 3 place tiny car in the back, which can go as fast as 70 km/h. We also had a ride in a carriage and had a a tour of the village, taking photos and enjoying some ice-cream.
As
always,I've got many thoughts, wanna do so much and am only one!😞( If only there could be more Monas at the same time!!😊), yes, I would sign up for human cloning, if it meant having 10 twins and I could be in 10 different counties and do 10 different things at the same time. Yes, I know, cloning is not about that, I'm not stupid, it was just a thought...
Note Samuel has a very different perspective on Colombian optimism. He says that this optimism we find in the Colombian culture (and I so much adore! ) is also the reason why the country doesn't really move forward, as everything goes here and the total lack of criticism can sometimes equal to a real lack of interest , as criticism can be constructive and lead to improvement. Colombian people don't take criticism well, he says... I guess this optimism thing has its downside...
Enjoy the pictures from
Santa Fe, I have exactly one month left here, not that much money to travel and a lot of thinking to do about my plans for next year.
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fabian
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just a short comment to say hi and "yeah, somebody is still reading your blog entries and finding them interesting" :-) kisses from denmark (unfortunately not on a cool holiday, but just for a week of work...)