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South America » Colombia » Medellin January 14th 2010

1-9-2010 today i went to the centor of the city to check out the markets, eat and walk around again. i got an arepa de chocolo con queso, guynabana juice, and chorizo. Guybnabana juice is my favorite drink in all of COlombia, try it with milk, not water and ask them to hold at least 5 of the 7 scoops of suger they´re bound to add. i went back to the minorista and got a tamal-this one had cornmeal, topped with peas,carrots, green beans, potatoes, pork fat (literally thick sliced pork fat-they eat a lot of it i guess since meat is more expensive) and a tiny bit of pork , all this wrapped in plantain leaves and boiled togethor. they are one of my favorite foods so far. i left the minorista and was headed ... read more

South America » Colombia » Medellin January 14th 2010

1-10-2010 Today i woke up and the stank of the room , which i had managed to survive the night before, was worse. the room had 3 bunkbeds in a room the size of a small to average bedroom in the stateds, every one of us was a 20-something guy and we were in an un-airconditioned room on the second floor. that day i went to buy my bus ticket for cartagena, 12 hours away at 130 thousand pesos now in the high season and 65 or so in the low. i got pickep up by maria and 2 of her friends from medellin before heading to a town above the valley for lunch and their famous pastries. this is a common activity of medellinos trying to avoid the heat of the valley floor. we went ... read more

South America » Colombia » Medellin January 14th 2010

1-7-2010 Today i woke up and took a 4hr touristy tour of medellin.....it took in all the main siteas and it was really boring. there really wasnt any time to walk around and i much prefer going at my own pace. not only that, but it stopped at some really stupid touristy places and i prefer the real true to the city grity ones. after that i went to a famous restaurante for the antioqiuan classic, beandeja paisa. i posted a photo of it on my facebook page and somehome managed to eat the whole thing. my meal ended up costing about 23 thousand pesos, the most ive paid for a meal so far- thats only 11.50 in US dollars. I then went shopping at the colombian equivalent of wal mart- exito (except theirs have full ... read more

South America » Colombia » Medellin January 8th 2010

Christmas was very quiet for us in Mindo in the day we went Canopying where you are attached by a harnes to a steel rope high above the jungle canopy! It was really good fun Darren did a couple upside down! There were hardly any tourists and hardly any restaurants, we had to have pizza for Christmas dinner there was tons of bugs and lots of Humming birds! On Boxing day we took the bus to Quito and were trying to decide what to do next....Colombia or no Colombia, on a bit of a whim the day after boxing day we took the bus to the border town of Tulcan they were still very much celebrating with a big street parade lots of squirty snow. We spent 1 night before getting up early and crossing the ... read more
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South America » Colombia » Medellin January 7th 2010

1/6/2010 Today is Medellin. I caught a bus and it was the worst ive had so far. The hills, mountains, and hairpin turns were navigated quite recliclously by my driver, whose speed was posted on an led monitor so that he would be deterred from speeding. Obviously this failed as he went in the wrong side of traffic, at 80km in a 40km zone, only to stop short when oncoming traffic came. The sign on the drivers cockpit that read “ ask here for vomit bags” was very appropraite and luckily I kept my lunch. Though the little kid up and to the left of me had a field day and may have singlehandedly emptied the buis of its plastis bag stores. Along the way wed stop to let salesmen com aboard to sell food, icecream, ... read more

South America » Colombia » Medellin January 6th 2010

Medellin war echt von vorn bis hinten ein Traum!! Die Stadt, die frueher fuer die Machenschaften von Pablo Escobar bekannt war, ist heutzutage modern mit neuen Parks, Museen, einer Metro und einer Stadtgondel und einem jungen Flair in der ganzen Stadt und vor allem dort wo unser Hostel war. Jeder der hierher kommt muss unbedingt im Hostel Casa Kiwi einchecken...das beste Hostel der Reise mit geiler Einrichtung, toller Kueche und netten Leute und vor allem warem Duschen....hab ich seit Guatemala nicht mehr gehabt, aber auch nicht wirklich gebraucht. Mit einer Seehoehe von ca. 1500m braucht man aber Abends doch was warmes also hab ich seit Guatemala wieder regelmaessig lange Hosen und feste Schuhe an....schraeges Gefuehl. Den ersten Tag in Medellin haben wir gleich mal produktiv gestaltet mit einer Fahrt mit den Gondeln zu beiden Aussichtspunkten und ... read more
Gondeln in Medellin
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South America » Colombia » Medellin January 5th 2010

About an hour and a half outside of Medellin is a picturesque little colonial town named Santa Fe De Antioquia. Founded in 1541, it was the original settlement and was once the capital of Antioquia. On the bus ride to Antioquia through mountains and over bridges we saw some of Colombia's beautiful countryside. As well as some interesting sites, including two guys riding one bike being pulled up the mountain side by clinging to the back of a large truch carrying wooden pallettes. The towns white washed walls and cobble stone streets have changed little in it's 400 years of existence. It's a bit of a resort town for the people of Medellin due to it's country clubs and steamier climate. We spent some time relaxing in the square and exploring the town before hiring Carlos ... read more
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South America » Colombia » Medellin January 4th 2010

Yesterday started off great, the weather in medellin is absolutly perfect, mid 20's every day and only slightly cooler at night. We took the subway to the city centre and wandered around some of the meseums and shops. We snapped some pictures of some of the Botero sculptures donated to the city by Colombia's most famous artist Fernando Botero. As you'll see in the attached photos, Fernando likes his art supersized. Not only is his art visibly stimulating, it's also physically stimulating as he designed it to be touched. We then toured the botanical gardens, at this point Laura started to feel a little under the weather. We found a shady spot under a large ceiba tree and spent an hour relaxing on the grass. On the subway while heading south, Laura's condition worsened. We quickly ... read more
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South America » Colombia » Medellin December 16th 2009

After hours of late flights, I finally arrived in Medellin, the infamous city of the Colombian (FORMER) drug cartel, and the Escobars, and in Chritsmas, one of the most lit up cities in the world. I split the one hour long taxi with a guy I had met on the plane, and arrived at the rather luxurious hostel Oscar had booked. Wow… after 10 months of travelling I would finally see the handsome face I had left crying at the airport, and the person whose memory had accompanied my thoughts in so many lonely, longing moments though out my journey. I hadn’t been at the hostel long, talking to the extremely cute, and young, Ecuadorian owner, Emeliano, before Oscar called from Panama, announcing that he would be delayed until the following afternoon. After grabing a bite ... read more
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South America » Colombia » Medellin November 30th 2009

English Version So my 24th birthday was 2 days ago and I celebrated it here in Medellin - my first birthday out of Nigeria or United States. I was a lot of fun because I'm blessed with wonderful people. My host mum gave me a beautiful earring, Lexie y Juliana gave me a purple dress, purple ear-rings and bought me a Chocolate cake, Freddy gave a really beautiful wrist-watch and Juliana's mum gave me a perfume. So we went to a Jamaican Bar first and later to club Dejavu to rumba - I totally loved the club because it was mainly Reggeaton and hip-hop music. So I just want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all my wonderful friends that came to celebrate with me - Freddy & Olivier (Congo), Nicolas & Joe (Kenya), Lexie ... read more
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