Standard Colombian Set Meal ...
... in addition to the token salad, rice, plantain, and arepa, this one included a fried piece of what I think was corn meal-based dough, a bit like a fritter. Crispy and moist, very tasty. Fish was good, as were the vegetables, cooked in a sauce with some eggs, I believe. The meal cost about $3 CAD - a true steal, and all washed down with an included cup of lulo juice. Though we finished eating at 6 PM, today's physical activity meant it didn't fuel me for long, as I was again hungry by 8.
Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more 
