Blogs from Cali, Colombia, South America - page 10

From start to PresentAntonio 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 like Desi Arnaz from "I Love Lucy". The same could be said for most americans who took a spanish high school course, from an anglo teacher! I hire myself out to people who need ane experienced guide ... read more

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 many people walking to the hill. So we were not alone... The we got to the goddamme stairs, and stairs, and stair again, some of theme half a meter height. I have to admit, beer ... read more

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 far the worst bed I had ever slept in) but after a few messy nights out at Samba and then clubs with Electro, house and many more I really was home from home. I finally ... read more

Ran out of writing steam so photos tell the story.... read more

Our ever-so-hectic schedule gave us a single day to explore Cali. This city, Colombia's 3rd largest, is famous for 2 things: the home of the infamous Cali drug cartel (although many syndicate leaders were jailed in 1995); and where Isabel spent her 3rd year of university. Cali is in Southern Colombia and we had picked it mostly because of this fact. In other words we didn't fancy spending much time in this semi-lawless state. Maybe a little cowardly but there you go. So, our conclusion from our (limited) look around is that it is a quite unremarkable place. In fact it is verging on being boring. More objectively speaking it's probably the sort of place that is really good if you have a local guide and / or lots of time to get to know it, ... read more