Palace of Culture Rafael Uribe Uribe
2024年4月29日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
This morning we set off on the metro towards the historical centre of Medellin. We got off the metro at Parque Berrio and headed into the Palace of Culture. The building stood out from the exteriorもっと詳しく
Plazuela Nutibara
2024年4月29日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
In the square outside of the palace there are a few dozen fat statues of various people, animals and body parts. Strange but definitely interesting!
Plaza Cisneros
2024年4月29日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Medellin Town Hall
2024年4月29日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Medellin River
2024年4月29日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Pueblito Paisa
2024年4月29日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Our final stop on the whistle stop city tour was Pueblito Paisa. Sitting at the top of the hill is this quirky colourful village with views out to the surrounding mountains.
Playing Football
2024年4月29日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
One of this afternoons hostel activities was to play football across the road! We teamed up with another hostel and ended up with 4 teams of 5 people. There were also a number of locals participatingもっと詳しく
Comuna 13
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
We were up bright and early this morning to take the tram to Comuna 13 for the 9:30am walking tour.
Comuna 13 is one of the 16 'comunas' (or comunes) within Medellin. Its a very popular spot to visitもっと詳しく
Comuna 13 Football Pitch
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Like something out of the movies with the colours and the residences rising up into the hills!
Comuna 13 Continued
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Our tour continued on through the cramped yet colourful streets. We even stopped to do some graffiti and go down a slide!
View from Comuna 13
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
With Medellin being built in a valley, there are great views of the city to be found all around but I think Comuna 13 has one of the best!
Comuna 13 Escalators
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
One of the improvements made to Comuna 13 in the past decade has been the instalment of 6 escalators to help the locals (and tourists) get up and down through the hills without breaking a sweat. Theseもっと詳しく
Estadio Atansio Giradot
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ 🌩️ 27 °C
A quick stop off for a lap of the main stadium in the city, home to both Independiente Medellin and Atletico Nacional!
Bayern Munich v Real Madrid
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
Best seats in the house for the Champions League semi final and a slice of cake for lunch!
House of Memories Museum
2024年4月30日, コロンビア ⋅ 🌩️ 23 °C
A well kept museum with great displays about Colombia's chequered past however it was almost all in Spanish so we understood very little!
This was our last stop of the day as we headed to theもっと詳しく
6 Months on the Road
2024年5月1日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Today is the day I celebrate 6 months on the road! And what better way to celebrate than with a 6 hour bus journey from Medellin to Salento. The bus wasn't till 11am however so we were able to startもっと詳しく
Arriving in Salento
2024年5月1日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We arrived into Salento just as the sun was setting, but our first impressions were good! It seems to be a proper old school Colombian town.
Evening in Salento
2024年5月1日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
After quickly dropping our bags at our hostel we headed out to a lovely veggie restaurant. There was a man on a saxophone outside playing delightful melodies so all was well! We finished the nightもっと詳しく
Cancha de Tejo
2024年5月1日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
We headed to a place neary to play 'tejo', a popular local game involving tossing metal slabs at sachets of gunpowder. The aim of the game is to hit the gunpowder sachets to make them explode. Thisもっと詳しく
Jeep to Cocora Valley
2024年5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
This morning we were up and out early(ish) to visit the Cocora Valley!
The valley is the main attraction to Salento, the only place in the world with wax palms reaching up to 60m high!
We jumpedもっと詳しく
Arriving at Cocora Valley
2024年5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
We arrived safe and sound and opted to take the short circular route via two viewpoints. Here's some shots from our ascent.
Cocora Valley Viewpoint 2
2024年5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
The furthest point of our trek was up to the second viewpoint. The views over the valley were great and we were able to get very close to a collection of the wax palms. We sat here for a while to haveもっと詳しく
Cocora Valley Viewpoint 1
2024年5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
As we continued our descent we passed by the first viewpoint. Once again great views! It reminded us of Wales/Scotland with all of the greenery and smell of horse sh*t!
Afternoon in Salento
2024年5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
We made it back to Salento just as the rain was starting so perfect timing! We took shelter to watch the first half of Roma v Bayer Leverkusen and then went to play pool for an hour. Two soft drinksもっと詳しく
Salento Viewpoints
2024年5月2日, コロンビア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
At the top of the town are two viewpoints, one looking over the town and one looking out to the valley behind. We took the steps up to hear before heading back to our hostel via the supermarket toもっと詳しく

































































































































































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